Monthly Book Club discussion

This is where you can share your final thoughts and start discussions for the book 'The Phantom of the Opera'. Hope everyone who read this, enjoyed it!

Starter question: Have you seen the musical or movie before reading this book? How did it compare?

To answer the starter question no I have not seen the movie or the play before but I was aware, roughly, what the Phantom of the Opera was. While reading the book I found that it was much more melodramatic than I anticipated honestly. I think I was expecting some much more dark and brooding and it wasn't that. Overall I thought it was a well written book and I appreciated the way that the Opera House just felt alive with all these secrets and locations. My only criticism, and this is a personal thing, I felt it got a little to melodramatic at times. I was getting annoyed with the women screaming and fainting when ever they caught a glimpse of the Opera Ghost but I could kind of excuse it as a thing from that time. Then the men started fainting because they caught a glimpse of the Opera Ghost and it was just to much. I wanted someone in this book to be made from sterner stuff and I just don't feel that I got that.