A review by mujerdee
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

2.0

Beautifully written but very hollow follow up to Witches of Eastwick. Updike has no real grasp of how women actually think and what they might feel: he is a product of his generation. I cut him slack in my 20s- two decades later I find I have no patience for his interpretation of how these women behave. In the first book, very little was made of the witchcraft: it just was. Tacit acknowledgement of magic in this latest book takes something away from the story, IMHO. And the subplot, sci-fi, no less, is flat out silly. Not half the book the Witches of Eastwick, with all its warts and witchiness/bitchiness was.