n a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain? Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is wildly provocative and gloriously absorbing.

i wanted to like this book...and obviously must have missed something based on the other reviewers. But after 100 pages I could not get into it....life is too short to waste on books you don't like...so stopped reading. Sorry.

It's sn incredibly long story that appears to believe that most men treat women badly or, if they actually treat them well are basically weak. Women meanwhile are good and if they do bad things its because a man forced them into the evil action. I made myself finish the book. But I actually lost interest about a quarter of the way into it.