A review by fantasticmrethan
Phantom by Susan Kay

2.0

I loved it. Then I hated it. The closer you get to the events of the original novel the more the quality slowly deteriorates and once it gets to the retelling of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ the characters just become tiresome and the whole thing becomes intensely unlikeable and slow. The early chapters have a Hannibal Lector/Sherlock Holmes vibe and even some of the Persia segments were good fun but the last third was just awful and left a sad taste in my mouth. Even though there is a great book somewhere in here.