Name: Phantom of the Opera
ISBN: 9781949518092

Varga Tomi

The Palais Garnier opera house in Paris was always said to be haunted, but those rumors were dismissed as excuses to explain accidents or lost items. But on the night of the gala performance celebrating the retirement of the old managers, a pair of strang

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Phantom of the Opera

Briar's Reviews

This is a unique graphic novel take on The Phantom of the Opera.

I love seeing new takes on old classics, so this one is a real winner for me. I really enjoyed seeing this take if I'm being honest. It felt like a new and fun way to bring the classic back to life. 

The illustrations are dark and spooky which is also really interesting. It's a style I haven't seen much of. The pictures are a little creepy (the people, anyways) but that's something that is easy to get over. 

Three out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Diamond Book Distributors for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

The Phantom of the Opera

Taylor

Not a great adaptation, though it is much more faithful to the book than the musical. I’ve loved the musical since I was a kid and read the book a long time ago. I remember being entirely engrossed by the text and having those “aha” moments when weird artifacts from the musical were explained (“keep your hand at the level of your eyes!”). This adaptation really doesn’t provide any of that clarity. In fact, being familiar with the source material is a prerequisite for following the story in the graphic novel, unlike the musical, which is... kind of the opposite of the purpose of an adaptation? That being said, this was the first graphic novel I read since reading the excellent book Understanding Comics and I truly could appreciate the art and storytelling through the graphic format. The good old OG is pretty gruesome and there are some beautiful pages overall. 

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley.

Ethel

A stunning adaptation of The phantom of the Opera

Key words: graphic novel, horror, mystery, fiction, ghost, historical, romance

This graphic novel is an adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s book. The phantom of the Opera is considered as a classic of the French literature. It is also a musical for those of you who want to discover the story in different versions. I haven’t read the book or seen the musical yet. Therefore, this is without knowing the story that I read this comic. I cannot say if this is a good adaptation or not but I can tell you that the drawings were amazing. They were very details and full of emotions. The style is sort of gothic, with a dark palette of colour that matches very well the story. The story was nicely told and almost everything was clear, they were a few moments of confusion but by reading a bit more I understood everything that was happening. It is not especially difficult to read but because of the detailed drawing and the story, it is not one of the easiest either. I recommend this graphic novel to anyone interested in The phantom of the Opera.

3.5/5

Thank you Netgalley for this eArc in exchange of my honest opinion.

Solange Bello

Thank you to netgalley for approving me for an early copy of this in exchange for an honest review  

This graphic novel captures the story of The Phantom of the Opera well enough but it just took me some time to actually get through it. The art style of it was very well done for a classic. 
I'm glad the art is nothing super modern looking because it definitely would not have been the same. 

The physical book for this is probably going to be gorgeous based off of what I've seen but one thing that kept making me put this done was the style of the text bubbles. It just felt too scattered to me and this being a classic its not easy to transfer everything the characters are saying especially since the speech was not changed to anything more modern. 

over all my favorite thing about this was definitely the visuals it is a very pretty graphic novel.

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