l0v3cr4f7 's review for:

Sleeping Beauties by Owen King, Stephen King
3.0

Still in progress but I'm into this Eve bitch. :)))


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Ok so it didn't work out for me like I was hoping. It wasn't a "bad book" but I felt the author was a little heavy-handed with the gender roles. Like a magnifying glass was used on male flaws to the point of caricature but the flaws in women were glossed over or ignored completely.

For the entire last half of the book my reading experience felt like
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It felt imbalanced to me in a way that had me thinking about the authors choices rather than the story. Political agenda also had a hand in that.

I liked the premise. I loved Eve Black and the women's prison. The idea of "Our Place" was pretty cool. There were some moments I really enjoyed but not my favorite SK :(