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A review by nikkis_reads
Sleeping Beauties by Owen King, Stephen King
4.0
The novel Sleeping Beauties deals with a topic just as heavy as the names on the cover.
What if one day women went to sleep and never woke up? How would men survive? What if this event would be considered a disease? How would men react? What if some fake news would say that the only way to prevent this disease is by killing the women who are asleep? How fast would the men kill the women?
Sleeping Beauties is the story of women who were wronged by men, women who do not deserve anything that had happened to them, and yet they accepted their faith long ago. Evie Black is the prime woman. She is the one who has suffered the most, she is the one who knows that from the beginning of time men killed, men destroyed, men betrayed and the ones who suffered the most were women and children. So, she wants to save all women. But the madness of men cannot save her and to her despair, it is a man who keeps her alive, a man who she bargains her life with.
Although the events occur over a number of days, it feels like an eternity. Time is relative between the realms and because of so many characters.
Sadly, because of the huge number of characters it is difficult to get attached to any of them. The only one that I truly loved was Evie, who knew how to press buttons, but ultimately, someone took her fingers off the trigger. Clint and Lila were the ones I had issues understanding their conclusion. It did not feel right, the way their character arks ended felt forced. Clint had no blame, Lila had so much blame to take and yet she found a way to project everything on her husband. Her need to save a child of a drug addict over-shadowed her need to protect her own son and that bothered me. She had no obligation towards the drug addict, she had an obligation to her husband and child and yet it feels like she abandoned them.
The ending suggests that, although Evie accepted the women's choice, she never truly let go of the possibility of creating a utopia for them and I cling to the idea that one day, Evie will return.
This story has a lot of sexist messages, there are a lot of male characters who blame the women for their miseries, for all the problems the world faces. At the same times, it shows men who would give their lives to save their wives, mothers, daughters. In the chaos of what seems to be the end of the world, there will be men who will still think straight and realize that men and women are equal.
What if one day women went to sleep and never woke up? How would men survive? What if this event would be considered a disease? How would men react? What if some fake news would say that the only way to prevent this disease is by killing the women who are asleep? How fast would the men kill the women?
Sleeping Beauties is the story of women who were wronged by men, women who do not deserve anything that had happened to them, and yet they accepted their faith long ago. Evie Black is the prime woman. She is the one who has suffered the most, she is the one who knows that from the beginning of time men killed, men destroyed, men betrayed and the ones who suffered the most were women and children. So, she wants to save all women. But the madness of men cannot save her and to her despair, it is a man who keeps her alive, a man who she bargains her life with.
Although the events occur over a number of days, it feels like an eternity. Time is relative between the realms and because of so many characters.
Sadly, because of the huge number of characters it is difficult to get attached to any of them. The only one that I truly loved was Evie, who knew how to press buttons, but ultimately, someone took her fingers off the trigger. Clint and Lila were the ones I had issues understanding their conclusion. It did not feel right, the way their character arks ended felt forced. Clint had no blame, Lila had so much blame to take and yet she found a way to project everything on her husband. Her need to save a child of a drug addict over-shadowed her need to protect her own son and that bothered me. She had no obligation towards the drug addict, she had an obligation to her husband and child and yet it feels like she abandoned them.
The ending suggests that, although Evie accepted the women's choice, she never truly let go of the possibility of creating a utopia for them and I cling to the idea that one day, Evie will return.
This story has a lot of sexist messages, there are a lot of male characters who blame the women for their miseries, for all the problems the world faces. At the same times, it shows men who would give their lives to save their wives, mothers, daughters. In the chaos of what seems to be the end of the world, there will be men who will still think straight and realize that men and women are equal.