A review by jellicle
Sleeping Beauties by Owen King, Stephen King

3.0

What would happen if all the women fell asleep and got transported to an alternate universe leaving all the men behind with no one to make their sandwiches and or iron their shirts (seriously do people still iron)? This book asks a lot of interesting questions but takes way too long to come to the conclusion. The gender representation feels a bit dated and stereotyped which is probably why it was set in Appalachia (don't hate, I am from there) and not in a more urban location where both sides would likely have fared better at figuring stuff out rather than resorting to all out warfare. The gore felt gratuitous but was probably necessary for the old school King fans but the story would have been fine (better in my opinion) with out it. Do not read the list of characters in the beginning only about 1/3 of them are important and a bunch of them do not matter at all. I might have given the story 4 stars if it had been shorter.