Stephen King and Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties is a long book. In the story, an epidemic known as “Aurora” causes women to fall asleep and go into a cocoon-like state. This also happens at a women’s prison, which serves as a major setting for the story. The men lose their minds. And they act like idiots. Or at least, the violence is what sticks in your mind. The characters aren’t black and white, but they are unbalanced. Classified as horror, the book is more unsettling than scary. The story also features supernatural and fantasy elements.
The book was originally published in 2017, and at first I wondered about the ’80s vibes I was getting. Then I started to wonder if the story was somehow allegorical. I didn’t look into it. It did feel a bit drawn out, though.