tico1021's review against another edition
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
darkcoffeelover81's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
daisywilkes's review against another edition
1.0
I wish I'd never read this Oedipus Whatpad nonsense
x_tora's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Incest
bookqueen82's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
donnakaye64's review against another edition
3.0
This book started out interesting but, in the end was disappointing.
jsanders05's review against another edition
2.0
Roast Mules?
NOT what I was expecting! Rosemary’s Baby is one of my absolute favorite movies/books/scary stories of all time so you can maybe imagine the extreme excitement that burst from me when I found Son of Rosemary for $1 at a thrift store. With how incredibly excited I was, that’s how incredibly disappointed I became.
I don’t want to ruin the ending for anyone, but the ending ruined that whole story/movie/experience for me. Ugh. Why!?!?!? Why, why, WHY Ira! Maybe writing a half-assed sequel 30 years later was a bad idea...
Not a maybe. Bad idea. And the writing isn’t even that good! It’s choppy and doesn’t flow. There are too many characters that have no significant meaning or true place. They’re just names to fill space and add words/pages to the novel.
It’s exaggerated. A little intriguing; does make you think about the world and politics. (Which is a bit unnerving as I read it in October of 2020 when our world is/was turning to shit anyways.) It’s almost too ‘perfect’ and I didn’t understand all of the NYC references and such. But, I am a Nebraska kid from the 90’s. I had to look up some of the terminology for the clothing being described.
NOT what I was expecting! Rosemary’s Baby is one of my absolute favorite movies/books/scary stories of all time so you can maybe imagine the extreme excitement that burst from me when I found Son of Rosemary for $1 at a thrift store. With how incredibly excited I was, that’s how incredibly disappointed I became.
I don’t want to ruin the ending for anyone, but the ending ruined that whole story/movie/experience for me. Ugh. Why!?!?!? Why, why, WHY Ira! Maybe writing a half-assed sequel 30 years later was a bad idea...
Not a maybe. Bad idea. And the writing isn’t even that good! It’s choppy and doesn’t flow. There are too many characters that have no significant meaning or true place. They’re just names to fill space and add words/pages to the novel.
It’s exaggerated. A little intriguing; does make you think about the world and politics. (Which is a bit unnerving as I read it in October of 2020 when our world is/was turning to shit anyways.) It’s almost too ‘perfect’ and I didn’t understand all of the NYC references and such. But, I am a Nebraska kid from the 90’s. I had to look up some of the terminology for the clothing being described.
hyperashley's review against another edition
challenging
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
kellysmaust's review against another edition
1.0
Absolutely abysmal, especially in contrast to the flawless first book [b:Rosemary's Baby|228296|Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)|Ira Levin|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327878603l/228296._SY75_.jpg|883024]. Rosemary awakes from a 27-year coma (really?) to find her/Satan's son, now going by Andy, is a slightly-better-characterized version of [b:Left Behind|27523|Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)|Tim LaHaye|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1406505054l/27523._SY75_.jpg|972769]'s UN-based Antichrist (he literally runs a (non?) profit with the same initials as Nicolae Carpathia's Global Community), who is trying to get the whole world to light candles at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999, in the . Everyone is so busy patting themselves on the back about how nice the candle thing is that they've forgotten to worry about Y2K, I guess. All of this would be dumb enough except for the last chapter, when unironically Just bizarrely bad, a real off day for this otherwise amazing author. The only good thing I can really say about it is that when Rosemary FINALLY realizes her , she at least tries to stop his sinister plans, in contrast to the Left Behind protagonists, one of whom literally becomes the Antichrist's personal pilot and flies him safely around the world, blowing up cities in his wake. So, there's that.