Rosemary's Baby
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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- [Three by Ira Levin](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16660211W/Three_by_Ira_Levin)
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Boy, Ira Levin had to have a ginormous pair of cojones to end the story the way he did in 1967!
The scariest part of this story was the gaslighting honestly and Rosemary was so damn naive, but overall this was super easy to read and pretty enjoyable. Levin’s did a fantastic job of meshing Rosemary’s dreams and her actual surroundings imo, as well as sowing the seeds of unease about the MC and if she is experiencing paranoia or if there truly is a massive conspiracy against her.
Biggest takeaways from this book:
1. Don’t marry anyone named Guy.
2. Don’t answer the door just bc folks knock.
3. (And I thought this was a given) Someone that has ONLY black candles definitely deserves the side eye 👀
Currently thanking my lucky stars to have been born 30 years later bc I was not built for the 60’s 😮💨
This is yet another classic story that I was actually excited to read, but that ended up disappointing me greatly. It read more like a screenplay for the movie then an actual book. I was expecting to compare the two in my mind and look for the differences. There were none however. It was really disappointing.
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