A review by kfish3
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

2.0

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux is a free Netgalley ebook that I read in late November.

The legendary threat of an opera house's ghost, yet, compared to productions I've seen, the lesser chorus cast of the book are generally a band of pompous, bickering, weenies, yet they shrilly skitte away at the mention of ghosts. There's also a lot of correspondence going on between theater managers and casting directors, a hasty infatuative, dramatic courtship goes on between Raoul and Christine, her spooky longing for both Erik (aka the Phantom), a B-level plotline of large amounts of money changing hands, and the rescue of retrieving Christine safely from Erik's clutches.