A review by crysania
Phantom by Susan Kay

5.0

What can I say about this book, really? This was a re-read. A re-read, in fact, of many many times. I've lost count of how many times I've read this book since it first came out in the early 1990s. The book tells the story of Erik's (the Phantom of the Opera) life from birth to death. Kay does an amazing job with taking those little hints Leroux gives about Erik's life and expanding them out into believable sections that ultimately shaped the man to become who is seen in the Leroux novel (which really chronicles only the last 6 months of his life). This story is amazingly beautiful and every time I read it I am sucked into a story so vivid, so wondrous, so heartbreaking, that I end up weeping at the end. I highly recommend it.