A review by jsanders05
Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
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.