The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Okay, yeah I have to admit that I was drawn to read this, very much because of the Gerard Butler movie :

   

yup that very one. Besides because the author was a fan of these guys:

People whose book I really love, such as The Count of Montecristo and Our Lady of Paris So yeah as you can see I was pretty much coerced to read this one.

This story begins as if it were an investigation done by a reporter, who have heard the story of the famous Phantom, who was the responsible of vile actions and perilous acts that not only inflicted pain in one person but in every single one that would dare to put a foot in his Opera House. At the beginnig you can't tell if he's real or just a ghost, because indeed he moves and acts like one but you can never be sure until we get to meet the sweet and INNOCENT Christine Daáe.

The whole first part was exactly the same as in the movie I mentioned before, ( so I won't be spoiling more than necessary) The difference comes in the whole second part where we get the real self of the phantom, not just an abandoned boy rejected by the world because of his ugly aspect, but also an expert soldier and a marvellous architect, able to do the most unthinkable structures just in a blink of an eye.

A person that never knew how to be kind because the world never show him any of it, taking him to find a love so passionate that would do anything as long as he could keep it to himself. But when someone falls in love of a person that loves another one...things get to be complicated, and there´s where the mischievous and vile personality of our phantom comes out to play and put in danger every single being that crossess his way.

I would have to spoil a lot of details if I wanted to explain everything that happens in the second part of it... i don't even know how to explain it... it made me remember of an action movie when Raoul and X go into the phantom's domain in order to save Christine ( I haven't felt like that in a while).

And the end?? Gosh... I can't even say it...but it's not what it was shown in the movie is more...it's so much MORE!

I can only finish whith this image because it really covers all of the ending. Just loved it. And Gerard Butler will always be for me The Phantom of the Opera.