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Sleeping Beauties by Owen King, Stephen King
4.0

Things that went through my head while reading this book:
-I'm probably going to fall asleep reading, but then I won't know what happens in the end.
-(while friends discussed a sleep app) I don't want to fall asleep though, because cocoon.
-(while swimming laps) I hope these lifeguards are trained on how to deal with women if they fall asleep in the pool.

Thoroughly enjoyed this father/son collaboration. It is part fantasy, part dystopian, part realistic fiction, and it's obvious where the influences are coming in from modern issues. I'm really enjoying reading some of Stephen King's more recent work because it shows how he continues to grow as a writer. This isn't clowns-in-the-sewer scary, but there's still very much an element of "crap, this could happen" that you see in some of this stories. Great work.