Sleeping Beauties

Perhaps in the future I will give this book a kinder star rating but not today. I'm sorry to say this book was a slog. I kept at it thinking as I often do when listening to novels rather than reading them that perhaps it was dragging due to the audio format.

Here is the problem....

The length and getting mired down in minutia and detailed descriptors that led nowhere was also a problem.

I also had issues with the lack of flow. I'd just be thinking that the King's were leading me somewhere. That like the webbing cocooning their characters they were about to pull all the threads together and show me the mosaic sense of the story. Alas this was not the case.

Yes..,it all gets tied together in one big concept of “the bad guys” vs “the good guys”, however even this black and white portrayal of good and bad I found clunky and juvenile.

I had issues with perspective as well. The authors chose to write with large brush strokes what they perceived as the feelings and interpretations of culture from one large group...a group of which Owen and Stephen are not a part of in this world. In my opinion this led to some huge assumptions that lacked finesse and intricacies.

All of that being said I am a fan of Stephen King and there were definitely hallmarks of his style throughout the novel.

My apologies for a harsh review...who knows maybe I will look at this book more fondly in the future.