A review by kellysmaust
Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin
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.