Sleeping Beauties

Stephen King is not my usual read but the title really caught my eye. Once I read what it was about I was really intrigued. The book takes place in Dooling, a small town in the middle of nowhere. It focused mostly on the women’s prison. It takes place over 1 week. The women fall asleep like sleeping beauty, not to be awakened. They then form these cocoons around their bodies going to another world. The men are really freaked out by this and the women try their best to not fall asleep but they eventually succumb to it. The women also become violent if the cocoon wrapping is taken off. This all starts when this mysterious woman comes to town. She calls herself Eve Black. She is the only woman who can fall asleep and wake back up. As more women fall asleep more attention is brought to her. A lot of weird stuff happens. There is a part where you learn about where the women go after falling asleep. The women are sick of being treated badly by men and they develop their own way of life without men. Some of the men get violent and burn the bodies of the women. Some of the men seek to protect the women from this. They even plan a raid on the prison to find out how Eve can stay awake. They never really find out what her role totally is, which was a disappointment. That was the main thing I wanted to know was what is Eve Black? Because she has a lot of weird magic powers. She ends up going to the women in the other realm and asking them if they want to stay in the new world, utopia, or go back home to be with the men. They have to agree to the same decision.

           This book took me about two months to read. It took me longer to read because I also listened to it on audiobook which brought the book to life in a really great way. I liked a lot of it. The depth to character and eloquence that Stephen and Owen King bring to their stories is really fascinating. I really enjoyed this book. The theme of the book revolved around women empowerment and being a strong and independent woman which I really liked a lot.