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Phantasma

Kaylie Smith

4.05 AVERAGE

mckensieworley's review

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

amybaby88's review

4.5

dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shannon2493's review

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

olivivia8's review

4.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

angelfire83's review

3.0

Guessed the big reveal early on so a bit predictable! Would still read the second.

sophlouise_'s review

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The beginning sounded promising; witchy, gothic, carnival vibes. The build up of the story and the manor were intriguing to be begin with and I liked the idea of the seven circles of hell and competing in each level of this. But there were times in the book where the smut/sex scenes were so unnecessary and it ruined the story for me. I.e. (spoiler) she kills someone then in the immediate scene afterwards she’s bonking the mmc, yet she was apparently traumatised by the murder? Personally that took me out of the story and ruined the impact of what just happened in the level. Not every novel needs to have smut scenes 24/7, make it worthwhile