Sleeping Beauties: A Graphic Novel in Two Parts (2021) By Stephen & Owen King. These two graphic representations run to about 230 pages and contain the main focus of the original novel, but a picture speaks a thousand words… Here we have hundreds of nicely drawn, inked and lettered (by Rio Youers, Alison Sampson and Triona Farrell) examples of the ideas within the book. While I have long enjoyed the work of the senior King and have read much of his sons’ output, I couldn’t find it in myself to forage through this novel.
Lucky me.
This pair of books has allowed me to both grasp and enjoy the book in a much shorter time span. The tale, of women being transported while they sleep to the same world they have left, but without men to mess things up, has a nice ring to it. I only wonder why all the women would want to come back to the original version of things. I suppose, like every fairy tale, there must be a happy ending.
But for whom is it happy?
There is the usual quota of gore, small community self-applied tension, a bit of fantasy and dregs of horror, but there is also a beautiful story of love and self-realization happening here. This is sure to delight the busy followers of both Kings.

The Aurora virus is spreading throughout the world! Women go to sleep and stay asleep, and a web-like fibrous material covers their face and bodies.
I read the book when it came out, before our current COVID-19 pandemic, and the story is freakier now that we are living through this crisis. And also the similarities between the Blowtorch Brigades and today’s Qanon nut cases hit a little too close to home too!
Other than that, I liked the novel better. But this is a good way to revisit the story without rereading the whole thing. And, it looks really good! ( )

There was a bit much of text for a graphic novel.
The storyline is very interesting.
This is a book I’m going to add to my list to read.
The concept is wonderful ( )