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A review by immabehazzie
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
5.0
I’ve seen the 1975 film and knew what the story was about and yet reading ‘The Stepford Wives’ still managed to elicit a sense of paranoia and terror from me.
I don’t know what else to say other than this book is definitely worth reading. Even if you’re familiar with the story and the media that has stemmed from it. It’s less than 200 pages and yet the build-up to the end is amazingly well done. Nothing is actually hidden, the views the men hold and what they’re doing, the fear the women have, and the almost giddiness that a kid has when they successfully steal a cookie from the jar are the same giddiness the men show throughout the book as they get away with what they’re doing.
Since this book is told entirely from Joanna’s point of view, we, the audience, are almost gaslit into believing that we’re being paranoid. I can honestly say that I’m surprised at how much this book managed to pull me in in such a short amount of time.
I don’t know what else to say other than this book is definitely worth reading. Even if you’re familiar with the story and the media that has stemmed from it. It’s less than 200 pages and yet the build-up to the end is amazingly well done. Nothing is actually hidden, the views the men hold and what they’re doing, the fear the women have, and the almost giddiness that a kid has when they successfully steal a cookie from the jar are the same giddiness the men show throughout the book as they get away with what they’re doing.
Since this book is told entirely from Joanna’s point of view, we, the audience, are almost gaslit into believing that we’re being paranoid. I can honestly say that I’m surprised at how much this book managed to pull me in in such a short amount of time.