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sammah 's review for:
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
by Joyce Reardon
I had meant to read this years ago after the mini-series came out, but just never got around to it. Having read it now, I preferred the mini-series to the book, but that doesn't mean I disliked it! It just means that the mini-series worked in ways that the book fell a bit short.
Some stories work within the context of the diary trope, some don't. This didn't work quite as well, because you lose some of the horror aspects to the one-dimensional writing that the diary style brings to the table. While it perhaps could have worked using a different voice, that voice Ellen Rimbauer just didn't bring the scary aspects across very well. I found what she had to say interesting, I read straight through the book without stopping because I wanted to see what happened, but she wasn't always the most engaging narrator. The story could have benefited from the perspective of others as well, such as her husband and her best friends/confidants, but that wasn't what the writer intended so Ellen is what we get!
I'm now interested in rewatching them mini-series again too. It's been a lot of years, and I remember liking it quite a lot. I think it will be a nice continuation of the story for me and will perhaps give me a bit more perspective that I felt myself lacking with the "diary" alone.
Some stories work within the context of the diary trope, some don't. This didn't work quite as well, because you lose some of the horror aspects to the one-dimensional writing that the diary style brings to the table. While it perhaps could have worked using a different voice, that voice Ellen Rimbauer just didn't bring the scary aspects across very well. I found what she had to say interesting, I read straight through the book without stopping because I wanted to see what happened, but she wasn't always the most engaging narrator. The story could have benefited from the perspective of others as well, such as her husband and her best friends/confidants, but that wasn't what the writer intended so Ellen is what we get!
I'm now interested in rewatching them mini-series again too. It's been a lot of years, and I remember liking it quite a lot. I think it will be a nice continuation of the story for me and will perhaps give me a bit more perspective that I felt myself lacking with the "diary" alone.