In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?
All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent…
In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word …
In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?
All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent…
In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep – and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain?
The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake.
And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether… --front flap
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lingua English
Pubblicato il 31 Marzo 2018 da Hodder Paperback.
I’ve listened to the audiobook. For the most part, I found Marin Ireland’s narration way more diverting than the actual story.
Although the book was overall interesting, I couldn’t help but feel that something was missing.
It's a bit hard to tell my opinion about this book. I loved all the characters (and yup they're a lot!) and many scenes are great. The writing is flawless (even if sometimes even over my pay grade - I'm not a native English speaker and this has been the hardest book I've read this year) and every place, every action was 100% King style - that I adore. But I didn't like too much the plot itself. Not the starting idea (that was cool) - but the "reason" - the male/female thing is ok, but it gets too much fairytale-ish - that fits well so much with the other stuff related to shrinks & bazooka shooting - at least for me.
Not too oddly this didn't prevent me to like the book - because everything else was good - the subplots (the characters live action) were compelling and at …
It's a bit hard to tell my opinion about this book. I loved all the characters (and yup they're a lot!) and many scenes are great. The writing is flawless (even if sometimes even over my pay grade - I'm not a native English speaker and this has been the hardest book I've read this year) and every place, every action was 100% King style - that I adore. But I didn't like too much the plot itself. Not the starting idea (that was cool) - but the "reason" - the male/female thing is ok, but it gets too much fairytale-ish - that fits well so much with the other stuff related to shrinks & bazooka shooting - at least for me.
Not too oddly this didn't prevent me to like the book - because everything else was good - the subplots (the characters live action) were compelling and at the end, the Why is not the most important feature when the What is page turning and when the people in the book seems so real that you feel sorry for some of them when things get crazy as they get.
