Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby

I grew up loving Rosemary's Baby, and when I found out that there was a sequel, I was interested to see what happened next. Boy, I really wish I would have ignored that impulse. This was not good. Ira Levin's writing style makes the book a fast read, and some of the social commentary was still relevant, on the nose even, but that's about the only flowers I can find in the pot of dirt that is this book. Granted, one maybe shouldn't look for nuance from a sequel to a story about a woman who was impregnated by the devil, but this was even too corny for me to process at times. Also, there are certain Oedipal aspects to the story, that I really could have lived without.

This book is so cheesy! I kept thinking it would get better--it DIDN'T!!! Waste of time!

I read Rosemary's Baby, and thought "I wonder if there's more to this story?" Son of Rosemary may not be suspenseful or horrific but it's a good novel. It answers a lot of questions, and you get to see that even if Andy is the Anti-Christ he doesn't know it, he's trying to do the right thing and be a good person! (Kind of kicks the Christian ethic in the a**) Nice little twist ending that explains it all... even some comic relief. Good book overall! (I liked the first one so much my sons name is- Adrian)

I actually liked this book! Okay, the ending was sorta cheesy, but it was good. I think Levin closed out the Rosemary story perfectly...with a twist ending (and don't even TELL me you knew it was coming, because you didn't). The "roast mules" puzzle and the "Judith S. Karyhat" (go on, say it out loud-get it?) killing (thirty pieces of silver...hmmm) are very intriguing. Who cares if the ending was a cop-out? I loved this book as well as the original. So there.

This book is a great book. For me it challenged my knowledge about what you knnew about people. It was also a book that drew me in like I was part of the book. The author was so discriptive that it felt as if you were there watching this going on or that you were the person that this was happening to. The thing that really caught my attention was that Andy said that they were just dancing but what they were doing was getting high. Also that Rosemary was able to figure out what was up with the candles and why there was already alot of people were dead because a few people had lit a couple of candles. I also thought that Rosemary was so vunerable to think that Satan would have been able to promise her youth forever. But what he really wanted was a person that would give him more children so that he would be able to run the whole earth and that he would not have to worry about Andy that had ruined everything for him. I think that if you are into mystery books but you also like books that test your knowledge this is the book for that

Don't be so angry at Ira. Sheesh. This book made for a great few hours of reading. The ending confused me at first, depressed me a little, but IT GOT ME THINKING. I went back and read excerpts from the book here and there, and I studied the ending like I was being tested on it. I have made some incredible findings, and I have created some interesting theories. If anything, this book awakened my mind, and it was enjoyable as well. One of the best reads I have had in awhile. If you read it, STUDY IT. WORD FOR WORD. You will find your OWN realizations, and you will feel as if you've stepped into another world. It's amazing. I, too, heart Ira Levin.....very much.

"Son of Rosemary" is Ira Levin's sequel to "Rosemary's Baby"; a novel which put Satan and Black Magic in a modern context mingled with razor sharp paranoia. The sequel follows up 33 years after "Rosemary's Baby" in New York City in the latter months of 1999. We find out what happened to Rosemary after we left her trying to reconcile her role as the mother of the Antichrist. She wakes up from a coma finding that her son has become a Messianic Leader that the world loves. As she renters his life we find answers to many of the questions we were left asking after Rosemary's Baby ended. During the course of the story, we view ourselves through the eyes of Rosemary. She brings a sense of wonder and horror in our age of technology and violence. Ira Levin takes our fascination with the modern day religion, The Cult of the Celebrity, and focuses on our obsessions with fame, intolerance and the need to be lead by charismatic leaders. He blends them with a lot of sharp plot twists that only he is famous for writing. I don't want to give anything away but the book does end with a hellish twist. This book clearly proves that Ira Levin is still the gifted writer of suspense that he has always been. It has been too long since his last book, "Sliver." He has been missed. Grab this book and be warned: you wont want to stop until you reached the end