Review
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No longer content with dominating the horror genre for
decades, Stephen King now seems set on creating top-notch
chillers as a family business....kick-started by a very Kingish
high concept...made immersively believable by the usual Kingian
control of a vast cast of brilliantly drawn characters. Bravo
(Daily Mail)
'A beauty of a horror tale...The first epic collaboration between
Stephen King and son Owen King is ambitious, heartbreaking and,
when it comes to its central horrors, all too timely...The Kings
create a thought-provoking work that examines a litany of
modern-day issues (USA Today)
A bulging, colourful epic; a super-sized happy meal, liberally
salted with supporting characters and garnished with splashes of
arterial ketchup. (Xan Brooks Guardian)
Easily devoured, and I look forward to the next book from either
or both Kings eagerly.... One of my favourite books of the year.
(Sci-Fi Bulletin)
This delicious first collaboration between Stephen King (Doctor
) and his son Owen (Intro to Alien Invasion) is a
horror-tinged realistic fantasy that imagines what could happen
if most of the women of the world fall a, leaving men on
their own...The authors' writing is seamless and naturally
flowing...once the action begins, it barrels along like a freight
train' (Publishers Weekly)
The prose never loses its vitality and humour; the ideas are
always intriguing; and there's no gainsaying the adventurousness
and ambition (The Times)
No longer content with dominating the horror genre for decades,
Stephen King now seems set on creating top-notch chillers as a
family business....kick-started by a very Kingish high
concept...made immersively believable by the usual Kingian
control of a vast cast of brilliantly drawn characters. Bravo
'A beauty of a horror tale...The first epic collaboration between
Stephen King and son Owen King is ambitious, heartbreaking and,
when it comes to its central horrors, all too timely...The Kings
create a thought-provoking work that examines a litany of
modern-day issues
A bulging, colourful epic; a super-sized happy meal, liberally
salted with supporting characters and garnished with splashes of
arterial ketchup.
Easily devoured, and I look forward to the next book from either
or both Kings eagerly.... One of my favourite books of the year.
Book Description
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A spectacular her/son collaboration like no other,
Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high stakes
stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of
men?
From the Inside Flap
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All around the world, something is happening to women
when they fall a; 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 - 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 ing women are about to open their eyes to a new
world altogether...
From the Back Cover
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All around the world, something is happening to women
when they fall a; 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 - 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 ing women are about to open their eyes to a new
world altogether...