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itziarvm 's review for:
Sleeping Beauties
by Owen King, Stephen King
This is the first time I read anything by Stephen King. I've read and heard that maybe this was not his finest work, but I was given the book as a present, so I took it as a chance to introduce myself into his writing.
Overall, the concept of the story was intriguing. I liked where it was going at first, with all the females falling asleep and how gradually you could perceive the impact that this had, not only for the world, but also for the remaining men that had to figure out how to continue without them, and eventually how to bring them back.
I liked the character of Doctor Norcross, although he did come across as the macho that doesn't like to talk about his feelings and has a secret past. I think that maybe that's precisely one of the reasons I didn't like some characters, because they were just stereotypes that you find in other books, and I was expecting more.
We have this with Doctor Norcross, the typical repressed male and with Don Peters, the abuser who deep down resorts to violence because he is a pathetic weasle that was spoiled by his mommy.
The ending was dissapointing to some extent as well, less flumboyant that I expected, less resolutive as well. I still have questions about Evie, who sent her, why did she behave as if she wanted men to kill her at the end?
There were parts in which I felt thaut there were maybe a few things happening that might as well have not been in the book and the otcome would have been similar, if not the same. That is the case for the whole "Greiner brothers" storyline, and their encounter with Lampley. Also, sometimes I found myself thinking that the whole concept was trying to prove that females are weaker and non violent and males are, and that irritated me as well. I know that characters like Angel prove just the opposite, that females are violent as well, but generally the whole idea of the book is to prove that if females were alone, they could create a better world, but at the same time this sort of implies to me that females are never going to create trouble because they are not inherently beligerant.
Overall, the concept of the story was intriguing. I liked where it was going at first, with all the females falling asleep and how gradually you could perceive the impact that this had, not only for the world, but also for the remaining men that had to figure out how to continue without them, and eventually how to bring them back.
I liked the character of Doctor Norcross, although he did come across as the macho that doesn't like to talk about his feelings and has a secret past. I think that maybe that's precisely one of the reasons I didn't like some characters, because they were just stereotypes that you find in other books, and I was expecting more.
We have this with Doctor Norcross, the typical repressed male and with Don Peters, the abuser who deep down resorts to violence because he is a pathetic weasle that was spoiled by his mommy.
The ending was dissapointing to some extent as well, less flumboyant that I expected, less resolutive as well. I still have questions about Evie, who sent her, why did she behave as if she wanted men to kill her at the end?
There were parts in which I felt thaut there were maybe a few things happening that might as well have not been in the book and the otcome would have been similar, if not the same. That is the case for the whole "Greiner brothers" storyline, and their encounter with Lampley. Also, sometimes I found myself thinking that the whole concept was trying to prove that females are weaker and non violent and males are, and that irritated me as well. I know that characters like Angel prove just the opposite, that females are violent as well, but generally the whole idea of the book is to prove that if females were alone, they could create a better world, but at the same time this sort of implies to me that females are never going to create trouble because they are not inherently beligerant.