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brandonpytel 's review for:
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
My second spooky read of the season, and it doesn’t get much spookier than an Opera ghost, creeping below the surface and between the shadows. When a man is found hanged below the opera house, the tragic story of the opera ghost is plays out. Raoul is the headstrong, heartstrong love of his childhood friend Christine Daae, who has recently shone on the opera stage. But the recent success of Christine may be more than meets the eye, and an unknown voice in the walls may have something to do with it.
The story unravels like an intriguing mystery, with a previously unknown Persian showing up in the second act, filling in the blanks and leading us toward the dramatic conclusion in the house under the lake. At its center is the tormented Erik, a disfigured, beautiful-voiced and insanely jealous and controlling lover of Christine. His jabs, jokes, flaws, and follies are what make all of us human, yet revealed in such a grotesque character forces us to reexamine our own traits. The jealous and passionate madman in the mansion manifests itself in the extremes Erik is willing to go for a normal life, one that would deliver him form the shackles of his isolated existence as a dark genius and one that haunts him endlessly.
The secrets unfolding make this book fascinatingly entertaining; the final reveals make it insufferably cruel and tragic.
The story unravels like an intriguing mystery, with a previously unknown Persian showing up in the second act, filling in the blanks and leading us toward the dramatic conclusion in the house under the lake. At its center is the tormented Erik, a disfigured, beautiful-voiced and insanely jealous and controlling lover of Christine. His jabs, jokes, flaws, and follies are what make all of us human, yet revealed in such a grotesque character forces us to reexamine our own traits. The jealous and passionate madman in the mansion manifests itself in the extremes Erik is willing to go for a normal life, one that would deliver him form the shackles of his isolated existence as a dark genius and one that haunts him endlessly.
The secrets unfolding make this book fascinatingly entertaining; the final reveals make it insufferably cruel and tragic.