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A review by vanquishingvolumes
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Joyce Reardon
4.0
This was a delightful discovery that I found in a box of assorted paperback horror books I ordered for $25. I had never heard of this book, and given that it could reasonably be viewed as a prequel/companion novel to Stephen King’s Rose Red I was excited for what I would find.
There is just something about epistolary novels that makes me instantly more drawn to the narrative - call it the millennial in me that feels reminded of my childhood reading Dear America books. And oddly enough, this horror book combines diary entries with an interspersing of drawings that, to me, are entirely reminiscent of those in the Little House in the Prairie books. So needless to say, this book was already well set up to steal my fancy.
And boy did it. A tale of the eponymous Ellen Rimbaur from the beginning of her marriage all the way to the time of her mysterious disappearance inside the monolith known as Rose Red, I was intrigued and captivated by her diary entries. Reading this book certainly made me eager to re-read Rose Red!
There is just something about epistolary novels that makes me instantly more drawn to the narrative - call it the millennial in me that feels reminded of my childhood reading Dear America books. And oddly enough, this horror book combines diary entries with an interspersing of drawings that, to me, are entirely reminiscent of those in the Little House in the Prairie books. So needless to say, this book was already well set up to steal my fancy.
And boy did it. A tale of the eponymous Ellen Rimbaur from the beginning of her marriage all the way to the time of her mysterious disappearance inside the monolith known as Rose Red, I was intrigued and captivated by her diary entries. Reading this book certainly made me eager to re-read Rose Red!