Rosemary's Baby

by Ira Levin

English language

ISBN:: 978-1-84901-588-2

(31 reviews)

She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. . . . Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin—where terror is as near as your new neighbors . . . and where evil wears the most innocent face of all. . . . --front flap

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Also contained in:

Three by Ira Levin

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Cheri reviewed Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Review of "Rosemary's Baby" on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I've changed my rating twice while typing out this review... My first thought was that I wanted to like it more than I did. I mean, the beginning was slow and boring but once it got going, I couldn't stop listening. Yes, it's from the 60s so there were plenty of patting the nice, young woman on the head and the husband laying down the law, and racist descriptions, of course.

Rosemary ended up being much stronger than I figured she would be. Sort of. I mean, until the very end. I need to live with the story a bit more. I won't lie, I'm tempted to read the next book in the series.

I listened to the Audible version and the sound quality left a lot to be desired. Mia Farrow's acting and voices were good but it sounded like it was recorded a few decades ago. How about …

NightDrake reviewed Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Review of "Rosemary's Baby" on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This book was pretty predictable. Rosemary was a flakey woman who believed everything that everyone told her. This includes her creepy neighbors. I don't like the light that they put witchcraft in in the story, and I didn't really even like any of the characters. Rosemary's husband didn't even care about her all that much because he cared way more about his acting. I know that this book was written in a different time, but I guess I don't really like to read books about stupid airheads with uncaring workaholic husbands. I think the author ran out of ideas, and the ending fell pretty flat. The movie is way better.

David B. reviewed Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Review of "Rosemary's Baby" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Very satisfying domestic horror. Not sure if this is a problem or an asset, but there's such a wide gap between what the reader knows (or thinks he knows -- but, yeah, pretty much knows, based on the slightest second-hand knowledge of the plot) and what Rosemary knows, at times one gets overpowered by exasperation at her incuriosity and inability to pick up a clue. Nevertheless: HAIL IRA LEVIN! HAIL SATAN!