Rebecca's Tale
Audiobook. This review is totally based upon the fact that Sally Beauman took a wonderful story, the original [b:Rebecca|12873|Rebecca|Daphne du Maurier|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XySD9S7BL._SL75_.jpg|46663] and turned it all around so it's almost unrecognizable. Rebecca is a sympathetic, misunderstood character that really hadn't been maneuvering people's lives for her own enjoyment and their pain. Max is a character who just doesn't understand Rebecca and is portrayed as a villain who ultimately committed suicide by car because he couldn't live without Rebecca. The 2nd Mrs. DeWinter is a mousy, boring, petty woman who couldn't keep Max's interest and their marriage ended up being a bad one. Even Mrs. Danvers ends up alive. WHAT!!!!???!!! I can see maybe writing a book about Rebecca that shows how she became such a manipulative, horrible person. Start her out innocent and then go from there. But to change everyone in the story around so much? It's like the author didn't enjoy the first book at all and thought she could improve upon it by changing the fundamental parts of the original book. Maybe she should have just written her own story with characters that had nothing to so with [b:Rebecca|12873|Rebecca|Daphne du Maurier|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XySD9S7BL._SL75_.jpg|46663] at all. Perhaps then this book wouldn't have been so bad. The writing itself is okay, the journal entries by Rebecca are the best part. But overall Ugh!
