Sleeping Beauties
- 917
- Pages
- about 17 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 5 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
“Sleeping Beauties”, which Stephen King wrote with his son Owen, is a dark small-town novel on the full King scale: over nine hundred pages. Some readers find the first quarter slow and then cannot put it down once chaos breaks out; others feel the climax runs long and that the book could be trimmed. Some also say it reads more like a mystery than horror. Father and son write together without a visible seam.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Sleeping Beauties is a novel by Stephen King and his son Owen King, released on September 26, 2017. The book was first mentioned during a promotional appearance on the CBC radio program q. Of the novel, Stephen King stated, "Owen brought me this dynamite idea and I've collaborated a couple of times with Joe. I'm not going to say what the idea is because it's too good."
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 221 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.0 | 221 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Sleeping Beauties?
It has 917 pages — longer than 97% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
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