Rosemary’s Baby doesn’t hide where it’s going. Excuse after excuse is made, or rational explanation after rational explanation, until there are no more. But we know where it’s going. Ira Levin doesn’t hide the witches, the villains win, and the whole thing is one long, horrifying trap that Rosemary can never escape, even from the first. ( )

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 some clean up there, Audible?

Now I need to watch the movie because I don't remember anything about it at all. ( )

Rosemary Woodhouse y su marido, Guy, un actor que lucha por abrirse paso en su carrera, se mudan a un edificio de apartamentos neoyorquino signado por una fama ominosa y habitado por ancianos. Roman y Minnie Castavet, vecinos de la pareja, acuden a darles la bienvenida e intentan, por todos los medios, establecer relación con ellos. Rosemary se muestra renuente a frecuentarlos, no sólo porque los considera extraños sino también por los misteriosos ruidos procedentes de su apartamento. Guy, sin embargo, parece sentirse encantado con los Castavet. Poco después de que su marido haya conseguido un importante papel en Broadway, Rosemay queda embarazada y los Castavet empiezan a mostrarse especialmente interesados por su salud. Mientras se siente cada vez más enferma y aislada, Rosemary comienza a sospechar que los Castavet y sus amistades no son lo que parecen.

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Although this book is described a "Horror" and I don't generally care to read horror, I found it to be a very good read. Any aspects of horror are very understated.

Clearly this book takes place in (and was written in) a much simpler time. Rosemary's function as a young newlywed is to decorate their apartment, cook their dinners, take a sculpture class, and, of course, have a baby. All is very innocent, until her husband starts getting the acting jobs he craves, and we figure out what her neighbors the Castavets are up to. But when will Rosemary figure it out, and what will she do?
And what an ending!

So even though this is old "popular fiction" and very much of its time, it is still a very good read.

3 1/2 stars ( )