A man that is not used to receiving a no for an answer. A man that works in a difficult area where he is at the beck and call of the Persian king. The next person that takes up the Phantom's story is Nadir. Unfortunately, what you think you want does not always work out the way you expect, and in this case it has disasterous consequences. What this girl wanted, though, was the Phantom. Giovanni's daughter was rather spoiled and was used to receiving whatever she wanted. The Phantom might have been happy there, maybe even stayed to run the business when the older man died, but then the lady of the house came home. He had always had a taste for building things, but it was Giovanni that took a chance on the young boy and showed him how to make his interest into a life long skill. When witnessing the famous play or reading the early novel, you are not always aware exactly how the Phantom got the architectural abilities that you witness in his downstairs lair. It was not until he decided to run off into the night that she learned that she loved him, but by then it was too late for her little boy. His mother tolerated him, but she was also disgusted by him. Used to beauty and always getting what she wanted, she was beside herself when she looked into the face of the boy who was her son. Her husband has died and she has been left all alone to bring this child into the world. The first narrator is Madeleine, his mother. Unlike the earlier versions of the novel, this is not just about his romance with the opera singer, Christine, but captures the life that he led before she was even a part of the story, even not even born yet.īroken into sections, the novel is told by Erik at some points, but it is also told by the people that he meets in the course of his life.

She goes back to the very early days, when Erik was born and traces his life up to his death many years later. Tracing the life of the man who would become 'The Phantom of the Opera', Susan Kay has created an experience that to anyone who wants to better understand the Phantom, you will. I will say, this is one of the best books I have ever read. I should have wrote it before I gave it away, but I wasn't thinking at the time. I read this book and then lent it to a friend, so I am afraid the novel is not as fresh in my head as I need it to be to write a good review.

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