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Sleeping Beauties
by Owen King, Stephen King
Audio book review.
Not bad, but not particularly memorable, either. Basically, a woman who commands moths comes to town. All women fall asleep and are awoken in another world. This other world is tied to our own by a magical tree and a few other places. Think Stranger Things. The women are protected in this new world, while the men in the old world are slowly losing their minds and being destroyed by the shells of the women that were left behind. It's kinda built up like this uncomfortable defense of women's rights, must save the women, must protect the women, but really it's just an opportunity for the men to establish dominance in the women-filled roles of warden and chief of police. Eye roll.
The women have the power to return, but only if all women choose unanimously to go back. I think there's a moral in there somewhere, but it's wrapped up in commentary on gender roles and separation of the sexes. Overall, I walk away from this book not knowing what I'm supposed to have learned or enjoyed during this reading experience.
Not bad, but not particularly memorable, either. Basically, a woman who commands moths comes to town. All women fall asleep and are awoken in another world. This other world is tied to our own by a magical tree and a few other places. Think Stranger Things. The women are protected in this new world, while the men in the old world are slowly losing their minds and being destroyed by the shells of the women that were left behind. It's kinda built up like this uncomfortable defense of women's rights, must save the women, must protect the women, but really it's just an opportunity for the men to establish dominance in the women-filled roles of warden and chief of police. Eye roll.
The women have the power to return, but only if all women choose unanimously to go back. I think there's a moral in there somewhere, but it's wrapped up in commentary on gender roles and separation of the sexes. Overall, I walk away from this book not knowing what I'm supposed to have learned or enjoyed during this reading experience.