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Sleeping Beauties
by Owen King, Stephen King
What a tantalizing premise; a mysterious spider web-like substance started to enclose women around the world when they fall asleep, keeping them alive but asleep. Thus, sleeping beauties and they dubbed the disease Aurora. When I first read this premise, thousand and one horror scenarios appeared in my head, none of them very pretty and all of them disturbingly violent in the most uncomfortable and intruding way. Luckily, the book didn't go there though. It decided on a different, equally violent path - anyone who attempts to tear open the web of the sleeping women would wake them up and they would turn incredibly violent and attack whoever's nearby. The deaths were gruesome, some well-deserved, some incredibly tragic.
At the same time, a mysterious woman appeared in the small town the book sets in, and did some crazy kills, and got herself caught - the mysterious Evie. I didn't expect to like her this much. In a world without the majority of women, the world of men quickly turned into chaos and violence. The book took its time speculating different scenarios, what-ifs and took the time to also showed us what happened to the women who fell asleep and I found those stories incredibly mesmerizing.
I enjoyed listening to this book a lot, the only reason I did not give it the full five stars is because the ending was a little anti-climatic. I guess I expected some twist and turns that would get very dark and I sometimes enjoy those endings more. I guess I wasn't the only one who grew fond of the townsfolk during the story, so they were given a somewhat happy ending. I would have loved to read short stories happening around the world during Aurora. I think that would give endless materials to some dark and terrifying stories.
At the same time, a mysterious woman appeared in the small town the book sets in, and did some crazy kills, and got herself caught - the mysterious Evie. I didn't expect to like her this much. In a world without the majority of women, the world of men quickly turned into chaos and violence. The book took its time speculating different scenarios, what-ifs and took the time to also showed us what happened to the women who fell asleep and I found those stories incredibly mesmerizing.
I enjoyed listening to this book a lot, the only reason I did not give it the full five stars is because the ending was a little anti-climatic. I guess I expected some twist and turns that would get very dark and I sometimes enjoy those endings more. I guess I wasn't the only one who grew fond of the townsfolk during the story, so they were given a somewhat happy ending. I would have loved to read short stories happening around the world during Aurora. I think that would give endless materials to some dark and terrifying stories.