cassabobassa 's review for:

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King

2.0

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I wanted to love this book because the premise was so interesting to me, but I think it would have served better as a television series. When a book starts with a cast list, you should know you're about to spend a huge amount of time with side characters and stories you really don't care about. My opinion toward the book also soured a bit when

Spoiler

one of the guards is shown to be molesting the female inmates and we get to read a description about his genitals and the sad sad handjob she's forced to give him. I get it. It's trying to be "realistic" about abuse in female prisons, but did I really need to read about it in such a exploitative and pornographic way? It turned me off to the book big time. I put it down right after that scene and felt just super gross about it. I struggled to pick up the book again.

In any case. It's a great idea, but way too stretched out for such a claustrophobic setting.