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2.4 AVERAGE
2.4 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wish I'd never read this Oedipus Whatpad nonsense
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Incest
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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.
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely abysmal, especially in contrast to the flawless first book [b:Rosemary's Baby|228296|Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)|Ira Levin|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327878603l/228296._SY75_.jpg|883024]. Rosemary awakes from a 27-year coma (really?) to find her/Satan's son, now going by Andy, is a slightly-better-characterized version of [b:Left Behind|27523|Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)|Tim LaHaye|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1406505054l/27523._SY75_.jpg|972769]'s UN-based Antichrist (he literally runs a (non?) profit with the same initials as Nicolae Carpathia's Global Community), who is trying to get the whole world to light candles at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999, in the . Everyone is so busy patting themselves on the back about how nice the candle thing is that they've forgotten to worry about Y2K, I guess. All of this would be dumb enough except for the last chapter, when unironically Just bizarrely bad, a real off day for this otherwise amazing author. The only good thing I can really say about it is that when Rosemary FINALLY realizes her , she at least tries to stop his sinister plans, in contrast to the Left Behind protagonists, one of whom literally becomes the Antichrist's personal pilot and flies him safely around the world, blowing up cities in his wake. So, there's that.
