Ira Levin: Son of Rosemary

 Hi everyone

I just finished Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin. This is supposed to be the sequel to Rosemary's Baby though it was written 30 years later. I got my copy from Bol.com.

"Ira Levin returns to the horror of his 1967 groundbreaking novel Rosemary’s Baby with this sequel set at the dawn of the new millennium. Thirty-three years ago, Rosemary gave birth to the Devil’s child while under the control of a coven of witches. Now the year is 1999, and humanity dreads the approaching twenty-first century, desperately in search of a saviour for this troubled world.
In New York City, Rosemary’s son Andy is believed to be that saviour. But is he the force of good his followers accept him to be? Or is he his father’s son? As the war between good and evil rages on unabated, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, in this shocking and darkly comic novel from the modern master of suspense."

This was awful.
I really don’t know why Ira Levin felt the need to write a sequel to Rosemary’s Baby, because this is absolutely horrible.

Rosemary’s naivety, which was charming or a sign of a rather simple mind in the first book, is now maddening and infuriating. Andy is sleazy; he really gives me the heebie-jeebies. And the incestuous tone throughout? Plain wrong and bile-inducing.
The overall plot was predictable, but the ending was the worst of all. Without the last five pages, I’d have given it two stars. But as it stands? One star.

Have you read Son of Rosemary? What are your thoughts? Did you hate it as much as I did, or did you find something to like?

Happy reading.
Helena