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hey book peeps so today i am doing a

book review and that is going to be on

sleeping beauties by stephen and owen

king owen is steven's son for those of

you who don't know this was published in

2017 and even though it's titled as a

horror

i did not feel that way at all with this

novel i definitely felt like it was just

just fantasy now even though this is my

physical copy i ended up listening to

the audio version only because like it

is it's a big book and i just knew i

would have a hard time getting through

with it if i just tried reading it this

novel was very different and it did kind

of help me out of my

my slumpy feels with reading because it

just this was so much different than

something i typically would read

so before i get into the story please

like and subscribe if we are jiving so i

think of this story it's not about one

person but it's it's about one town

and that is something i think king does

super super well like he just does an

amazing job of giving you

a group of people and uh he does that

with in salem's lot when you kind of get

to know the town and the people in that

town he does it in needful things and he

does it in this novel where you just you

know everyone he just does and you don't

get to you don't know every single

person's backstory or their lives but we

do

hit just like a key few people and with

those few people

he just does a really great job of like

knowing what it would feel like

to to be around these people to know

what to expect in this kind of group or

in this case this town this is one of

the many things why i love

king's stories

so the story starts off and soon after

uh women are starting to fall asleep and

even though this is affecting the entire

world he brings it up just like really

quickly we're only really experiencing

this one town and how they are dealing

with it even though it is affecting the

entire world

so

the women are trying to fall asleep and

when they fall asleep this wispy white

substance

starts to cover their bodies and they're

still breathing they're it's just like

they're like in a coma like state and

they're not going to wake up if you try

to mess with this wispy

substance on their bodies they

they get very violent it's like they're

not even

they're not them anymore they'll wake up

attack whoever messed with their their

wispy coverage

and then they go back to sleep

and then the wispiness the whispy white

stuff

consumes them again so it's very odd and

the men are starting to freak out

and there's only one woman who's in a

prison who seems to be immune to this

what they're calling aurora

disease are they calling it a disease i

don't know they're calling it aurora

though and one woman who's in the prison

is immune to it some men are trying to

come after her some are trying to figure

out how she's managing to

you know still live

normally and

it progresses from there now as the

story continues we do see how

men would react to this kind of

situation right we have some guys who

are devastated they feel like they've

lost their wives girlfriends you know

whatever the woman in their lives and

then there are

some who are happy that the women in

their lives are gone like the pain in

the asses you know and then we just kind

of have these guys who don't really know

what to do you know they're they're lost

they don't understand

uh how you know we need women in life to

to create life and you know so on and so

forth so there's a lot of mixed emotions

and i think king really did a good job

of kind of summing up how everyone would

would react and i saw a lot of negative

reviews on this book and i think

a lot of men

didn't like this book i don't know it

was kind of like the guys who gave

negative reviews really didn't like how

men were portrayed in this novel but for

me i think it was very realistic and

some guys would be crazy like they were

in this book i mean

humans we're vast okay there's shitty

people and there's good people you know

and i felt like he did a really good

mixture of all that

and some people said it was political

that went over my head i did not you

know

sometimes when i read fictional stories

i'm very well aware it's fictional and i

don't go past

that yes it's a fictional story women

are falling asleep and they're going

into a coma and they're basically going

through

changes like a butterfly would or a

caterpillar you know like whatever like

that's how i took the story

and some people just took it in a

totally different direction there's

something about gun control

stuff i don't know like i said i didn't

really see the political

side of this nor did i care to look for

it but

i do live in the u.s and

guns are

widely available to us and i don't know

if that is why people were talking about

it because gun control was brought up in

another person's review and she's in

canada and in canada

okay well i'm not really sure in canada

i think you can own a gun but if you do

you have to keep your gun

with

like at the police department or

something like that i'm not sure if

you're from canada and

and you you know be free to correct me

because i'm not 100 sure but in america

you can get a gun you can go to dick's

sporting good and buy a gun or

there's a hunting store around here

called cabela's you know and you can get

a gun there like i can walmart even well

i don't think walmart does that anymore

but whatever you can get guns

pretty much anywhere if you are of age

they're widely accessible

anyways like i said i don't really know

where the political part of that was so

i don't want to get into guns and all

that stuff too much but in this story

nothing about the weapons that they used

struck me as odd or strange i gave this

book four stars

uh

cons

was that

apparently the political aspect whatever

the heck that was like i said i didn't

see that but i do know it's a big

talking point with a lot of people

and it was kind of slow the story did

not move as quickly as i hoped it would

it was

and i was listening to an audio version

so it definitely moved at a snail's pace

especially the second half and the

ending

it was

the only reason i didn't give this five

stars was because of the ending and it's

not because the endings are

was

bad i mean we all know that king doesn't

do great endings like it's a hit or miss

with him

but the ending with this was like and

maybe this is like a little bit of a

spoiler but in the end everything went

completely

back to the way it was like

it really didn't do anything so

uh and we don't really know why either

we don't really get an answer on that

but anyways uh so i wasn't a huge fan of

how they wrapped everything up and i

wasn't really jazzed on the pacing this

could have been a lot smaller of a book

and i you know i probably would have

liked it a little bit more pros i i

liked it i liked the story i liked the

idea

uh that was presented to us and i liked

how

how they i don't know it worked it

worked to some extent and i just liked

it i liked how that came out um

from what i hear though

uh owen king didn't really write this

book at all it was really just stephen

king and because owen had an idea this

was his idea for a book and he kind of

told his dad

how that would look i think originally

they were going to make this a show like

a tv show and and not a book

but uh owen wanted to delve into each

character's life a little bit more so it

ended up turning into a book instead of

a screenplay i'm pretty sure i'm pretty

sure that's how it um

the first

half or the beginning steps to this book

went

so those are my thoughts on this book

honestly though i wouldn't really

recommend this to many people because

especially if you like king i don't

think this is a good book especially

like don't start off here like whatever

you do don't start with this book if

you're go if you want to jump into

king's work

it's i want to say like whimsical but

it's not even really whimsical i don't

know what to call it but it's very

i feel like only like a very small group

of people would like this book that's

what i got for you guys i hope you

enjoyed this book review and i will see

you next time

bye book peeps

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