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A review by justjoel
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Joyce Reardon
2.0
A tie-in to the Stephen King TV mini-series Rose Red, this is a fictionalized diary (edited by a fictional character from the show) of a young woman from Seattle who marries a wealthy man in the early 1900s. They depart on a years-long globetrotting honeymoon, and when they return to the mansion he had built in their absence, troubles begin. There is a string of deaths and disappearances, and it is soon decided that the house itself is responsible.
It's a little twist on the haunted house trope, and I feel loosely based on the Winchester House, which was under construction for upwards of 3 decades. It's not high literature and definitely not groundbreaking, but not a complete waste of time. My biggest complaint is the time jumps. They were more frequent toward the end, and after being inside Ellen's head so much in the beginning, the decision to suddenly start telling instead of showing broke a lot of the immersion and took away from the experience.
2 out of 5 stars.
It's a little twist on the haunted house trope, and I feel loosely based on the Winchester House, which was under construction for upwards of 3 decades. It's not high literature and definitely not groundbreaking, but not a complete waste of time. My biggest complaint is the time jumps. They were more frequent toward the end, and after being inside Ellen's head so much in the beginning, the decision to suddenly start telling instead of showing broke a lot of the immersion and took away from the experience.
2 out of 5 stars.