PHANTOM

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: This is probably my all time favorite book and in my oppinion, so much better than the original work. It adds more demensions to the complex character of the phantom and explains him. If you read this intriguing novel, youll begin to understand the man the phantom is- something not very well portrayed in any other phantom book I've read.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good, but not Awe Inspiring
Review: This story details the sad and tragic life of the Phantom of the Opera.

Though it starts off well, and fills in the interesting details of his life. The end parts that cover what is the the story everyone knows, is an overblown sentimental number that seems to belong more in a bodice ripping romance novel. It gives hope and happiness to what was to be a sad tragic ending.

Read but don't take the end too seriously

Rating:
Summary: so wonderful and PHANTASTIC!!
Review: Wow! I just finished the book for the second time in 4 days and it made me cry everytime. I checked out this book at the library and started crying in front of everone as I read a little of the first section! It takes alot for me to cry over a book in front of strangers, mind you. This book is now my favorite (more than lernox's PHANTOM or Les Miserables). I was on my way to appply for a job (im 14) and I was reading it in the car but when I was filling out a job applacation, I started crying!!! From his mother refusing him a single kiss to his morphine and opium addiction to his death, he (Erik) kept me under his spell and begged me to read onward. I know that sounds lame, but it felt like Erik was speaking through the pages and begging me to read onward. This is such a great PHANTASTIC book!!! Read it and cry, not for my review, but for our beloved Phantom, Erik.