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Sleeping Beauties
by Owen King, Stephen King
medium-paced
StoryGraph is asking me all of these usual questions, but I'm having a hard time describing this book. Even my opinion is kind of blurry, but I can at least try to put my feelings about this book into words.
I didn't love this book, but I also didn't hate it. Actually, in the beginning, I was quite enjoying myself, which I didn't expect. It's one of the rare occasions that I find myself picking up a fantasy book, and usually I don't have the highest expectations of fantasy, but this one was quite easy to get into (if you're okay with being introduced to many characters - because there are A LOT). I thought the perspective of the women's prison was an interesting perspective to take.
The true enjoyment took a while to set in, though. Actually, it got worse before it got better. In the middle (the start of part 2, to be precise), there is a long part where a lot is happening but we're not really building up to something, which makes the story drag. At this point, King & King kind of lost me, and it took a while for me to get invested in the story again.
This is where my main criticism of this book comes in: it is so damn long. And I don't mind long books, as long as there is a reason for them to be long. I don't think that this book had the right to be this long. It dragged on for a long time in the middle, and it could have easily done with 200 fewer pages.
At the end, though, I can appreciate this book for what it was, and the message it brought across. (Message: the world turns to shit when you let men rule it.) It just took a long time to get that point across, and I think it could have done it a lot faster. So, did I enjoy the book? Kinda. Did I regret reading it? I dunno.
I didn't love this book, but I also didn't hate it. Actually, in the beginning, I was quite enjoying myself, which I didn't expect. It's one of the rare occasions that I find myself picking up a fantasy book, and usually I don't have the highest expectations of fantasy, but this one was quite easy to get into (if you're okay with being introduced to many characters - because there are A LOT). I thought the perspective of the women's prison was an interesting perspective to take.
The true enjoyment took a while to set in, though. Actually, it got worse before it got better. In the middle (the start of part 2, to be precise), there is a long part where a lot is happening but we're not really building up to something, which makes the story drag. At this point, King & King kind of lost me, and it took a while for me to get invested in the story again.
This is where my main criticism of this book comes in: it is so damn long. And I don't mind long books, as long as there is a reason for them to be long. I don't think that this book had the right to be this long. It dragged on for a long time in the middle, and it could have easily done with 200 fewer pages.
At the end, though, I can appreciate this book for what it was, and the message it brought across. (Message: the world turns to shit when you let men rule it.) It just took a long time to get that point across, and I think it could have done it a lot faster. So, did I enjoy the book? Kinda. Did I regret reading it? I dunno.