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sammystarbuck 's review for:
Sleeping Beauties
by Owen King, Stephen King
I very much enjoyed this book, for the most part, but have to admit I'm a little disappointed too. One of my pet hates is authors using their books to push their own socio-political agendas on people, especially if it's done in a rather clumsy, heavy-handed way. It's a different story if they set out to write a book intended as such from the get-go, but I don't feel that is entirely the case here.
The point this book was making is that men are rubbish - mostly - and women would be much better off without them. Fair enough. It makes for a great scenario, and a great read.
But what I find really irritating is all the extra politics thrown in for a line or two, or even a page or two, just for one or other of the Kings to have their say on an issue, which didn't do anything to further the story at all.
For example, there was at some point a line where they decided to insult Trump. It wasn't a particular character's point of view - which makes things a lot easier to swallow - but came from the narrator. Now, I'm not American, and couldn't care less how individuals there feel about their president, but the cheap insult just came across as petty and childish, and left a bad taste in my mouth. It was so incredibly obvious this was the Kings' opinion, and nothing to do with the book that it really irritated me.
The book then proceeded to end on the issue, which had nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the story, but was just tacked onto the end because again, the authors had an agenda to push. It doesn't matter whether or not I agree with any of the opinions they're preaching; what matters is that it doesn't feel like it belongs to the story.
I hate being preached at by fiction.
That aside, I loved the central story, and the writing was top notch. could have been 5 star, but ended up more like a 3.5 because I felt it was cheapened by tacking on stuff that didn't belong.
The point this book was making is that men are rubbish - mostly - and women would be much better off without them. Fair enough. It makes for a great scenario, and a great read.
But what I find really irritating is all the extra politics thrown in for a line or two, or even a page or two, just for one or other of the Kings to have their say on an issue, which didn't do anything to further the story at all.
For example, there was at some point a line where they decided to insult Trump. It wasn't a particular character's point of view - which makes things a lot easier to swallow - but came from the narrator. Now, I'm not American, and couldn't care less how individuals there feel about their president, but the cheap insult just came across as petty and childish, and left a bad taste in my mouth. It was so incredibly obvious this was the Kings' opinion, and nothing to do with the book that it really irritated me.
The book then proceeded to end on the
Spoiler
"white cop shoots innocent black person"I hate being preached at by fiction.
That aside, I loved the central story, and the writing was top notch. could have been 5 star, but ended up more like a 3.5 because I felt it was cheapened by tacking on stuff that didn't belong.