Ira Levin: Son of Rosemary

 Hi everyone

I finished Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin. This is supposed to be a sequel to Rosemary's Baby but 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 Levin felt the need to write a seguel to Rosemary's Baby because this is absolutely horrible.

Rosemary's naivité is no longer charming or the sign of a simple mind, instead it's maddening, infuriating. Andy is sleezy, he gives me the heebe-jeebies. The incestious tone throughout is plain wrong and bile-inducing.
The overal plot was predictable but the ending was worst of all.
Without the last 5 pages, I'd have given it two stars. Now it only gets one star. 

Have you read this? What are you thoughts?

Happy reading.
Helena