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# Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

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desertcart.com: Sleeping Beauties: A Novel (Audible Audio Edition): Stephen King, Owen King, Marin Ireland, Simon & Schuster Audio: Audible Books & Originals

Review: A True Psychological Breakdown! - Stephen and Owen King have written an EXCELLENT novel delving into the psyche of men and women with amazing accuracy and insight. Truly fanciful, yet possible, the world they create envelops all the separate traits of both sexes and lays them out for the reader's interpretation. I work in a correctional environment, and my job involves years of reading letters from male and female inmates. The situations leading to how the female inmates arrived at their various places in this novel mirror very realistically actual circumstances in the actual lives of so many women. "There but for the grace of God go I". There are so many cases where "justified" does not equal the right to freedom. This story made me think deeply, and as the mother of sons, showed me how thin the line is for men to cope with so many of life's situations, and how differently that behavior is between men and women. This is a story that will get you thinking about morality, community, and societal roles of both sexes. It won't give you answers, but it WILL definitely get you thinking. Plenty of plot twists and flights into believeable fastasy, with just a smudge of reality to satisfy the most critical of readers. This book is not a fast read, but a satisfying and hopeful one. We need hope.
Review: Interesting but a little frustrating - I found it a little difficult to get into this novel. Once I did (about a quarter of the way in), it did move along briskly, but I found myself a little frustrated about certain characters. Frank, for example (choosing a main character with an issue revealed early so as not to spoil the story) had an anger issue that did not always read normally or easily. Sometimes it did seem like his outbursts were consistent with his characteriztion. But his self-awareness seemed inconsistent with the men (and one woman) I've known with anger issues. His blindness to his own behavior during outbursts, and his need to be "a good guy" did seem about right though. I definitely appreciated the approach of the story, ultimately being about how our culture encourages men and women to behave differently, and especially when the chips are down in one way or another. None of us is at our best when stressed and facing unknown outcomes even when we think we are doing our best. We may be doing the best we can under the circumstances, but we are still not at our best. Not surprisingly, these authors did focus a lot on the men in the story, and the women didn't always get as much attention. One woman character who stayed awake during most of the ordeal, for example, started off as one of my favorites, but then spent half the novel wandering around in the background giving the reader almost no idea of her motivations. Then she is used in a big climatic moment, and we're supposed to believe she had only one motivation that had only been discussed almost as an aside early in the story. It was a bit of a muddle. Also muddled was the experience of the cocooned women. That was when the book came alive for me, but we kept shifting back to the angry and depressed men, which had parts I literally only skimmed, because it was repetitive and boring. And while I can imagine the men doing all the things they did, why did no character in a story that deals so much with the ways in which many women are physically and emotionally vulnerable to the men in their lives, even think to point out the ENTIRE vulnerability of women in cocoons, whose cocoons - while somewhat protective - were not infallible. Once in a cocoon, a woman had no way to either fight back or escape WITH AGENCY if attacked by the men around her. I think I know what the authors were hoping to symbolize, but they didn't do this correctly, in my opinion. Any power seeking to help women see how they might survive on their own, without men, and with agency, would have made it happen without making their physical bodies (and, by necessity, their emotional well being) ENTIRELY dependent on men. I was also disappointed in the climax. It felt more like an anticlimax, in that a lot of questions that had been raised were not well answered. I don't need a complete explanation - we are supposed to use our imaginations when we read after all, and fantasy/horror/sci-fi does require a willingness to suspend disbelief. But we need SOMETHING to kickstart our imaginations, and there were too many gaps there, in my opinion, to do that well. All-in-all, it was an interesting thought exercise, and had its good moments. It also might be more rewarding for men reading. For this woman, however, it will not be one of those King books I reread with joy. I doubt I will reread it at all. Sorry guys. 7/10 stars rounded up on desertcart to 4/5.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A True Psychological Breakdown!
*by M***N on May 8, 2021*

Stephen and Owen King have written an EXCELLENT novel delving into the psyche of men and women with amazing accuracy and insight. Truly fanciful, yet possible, the world they create envelops all the separate traits of both sexes and lays them out for the reader's interpretation. I work in a correctional environment, and my job involves years of reading letters from male and female inmates. The situations leading to how the female inmates arrived at their various places in this novel mirror very realistically actual circumstances in the actual lives of so many women. "There but for the grace of God go I". There are so many cases where "justified" does not equal the right to freedom. This story made me think deeply, and as the mother of sons, showed me how thin the line is for men to cope with so many of life's situations, and how differently that behavior is between men and women. This is a story that will get you thinking about morality, community, and societal roles of both sexes. It won't give you answers, but it WILL definitely get you thinking. Plenty of plot twists and flights into believeable fastasy, with just a smudge of reality to satisfy the most critical of readers. This book is not a fast read, but a satisfying and hopeful one. We need hope.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting but a little frustrating
*by E***E on October 15, 2023*

I found it a little difficult to get into this novel. Once I did (about a quarter of the way in), it did move along briskly, but I found myself a little frustrated about certain characters. Frank, for example (choosing a main character with an issue revealed early so as not to spoil the story) had an anger issue that did not always read normally or easily. Sometimes it did seem like his outbursts were consistent with his characteriztion. But his self-awareness seemed inconsistent with the men (and one woman) I've known with anger issues. His blindness to his own behavior during outbursts, and his need to be "a good guy" did seem about right though. I definitely appreciated the approach of the story, ultimately being about how our culture encourages men and women to behave differently, and especially when the chips are down in one way or another. None of us is at our best when stressed and facing unknown outcomes even when we think we are doing our best. We may be doing the best we can under the circumstances, but we are still not at our best. Not surprisingly, these authors did focus a lot on the men in the story, and the women didn't always get as much attention. One woman character who stayed awake during most of the ordeal, for example, started off as one of my favorites, but then spent half the novel wandering around in the background giving the reader almost no idea of her motivations. Then she is used in a big climatic moment, and we're supposed to believe she had only one motivation that had only been discussed almost as an aside early in the story. It was a bit of a muddle. Also muddled was the experience of the cocooned women. That was when the book came alive for me, but we kept shifting back to the angry and depressed men, which had parts I literally only skimmed, because it was repetitive and boring. And while I can imagine the men doing all the things they did, why did no character in a story that deals so much with the ways in which many women are physically and emotionally vulnerable to the men in their lives, even think to point out the ENTIRE vulnerability of women in cocoons, whose cocoons - while somewhat protective - were not infallible. Once in a cocoon, a woman had no way to either fight back or escape WITH AGENCY if attacked by the men around her. I think I know what the authors were hoping to symbolize, but they didn't do this correctly, in my opinion. Any power seeking to help women see how they might survive on their own, without men, and with agency, would have made it happen without making their physical bodies (and, by necessity, their emotional well being) ENTIRELY dependent on men. I was also disappointed in the climax. It felt more like an anticlimax, in that a lot of questions that had been raised were not well answered. I don't need a complete explanation - we are supposed to use our imaginations when we read after all, and fantasy/horror/sci-fi does require a willingness to suspend disbelief. But we need SOMETHING to kickstart our imaginations, and there were too many gaps there, in my opinion, to do that well. All-in-all, it was an interesting thought exercise, and had its good moments. It also might be more rewarding for men reading. For this woman, however, it will not be one of those King books I reread with joy. I doubt I will reread it at all. Sorry guys. 7/10 stars rounded up on Amazon to 4/5.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great story which is really thought provoking
*by J***Y on December 10, 2025*

This is a great collaboration between Stephen King and his son Owen King. It is a very good book, with a very weird premise of every woman on Earth falling asleep and then not waking up. It really explores the concepts of what is masculine and feminine behaviour, and the impact the patriarchy has had on our society through history. But other than that, it is also a gripping and suspenseful tale with great characters that you can really relate to.

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