Sleeping Beauties
A Novel
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In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?
Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanted to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a woman’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.
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★★★★☆29 vurderinger
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- Het voorlezen is zo ontzettend knap gedaan. Voor elk karakter een andere stem, vind ik persoonlijk heel leuk om te luisteren.
Karni-Jane
Soms was het wat langdradig. Als het eindelijk duidelijk wordt er écht gebeurt, blijf je zeker weten luisteren….Bok★4
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Innleser★5
- Spannend, selbst wenn stellenweise gar nicht so viel passiert (was für viele Bücher von Stephen King zutrifft), eine Kunst, die der ältere King immer wieder bewiesen hat.
Jasmin
Das Ende nach dem großen Showdown hätte für meinen Geschmack auch kürzer ausfallen können.
Großartig gelesen: dank der verschiedenen Stimmlagen und Akzente hat man die Charaktere sehr lebendig vor Augen!Bok★4
Innleser★5
- Nah. Not one of King’s best, according to this constant reader :-/
Maurice
Bok★2
Innleser★4
Anita
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Bok★5
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Innleser★5
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