caution for the vain

crayonscanmeltonus:

phantominmanila:

Susan Kay’s Phantom: (Still) my best Phantom purchase to date, at Remy’s secondhand bookshop in Cubao, around 2005. I waited for months before it became available (it was still out of print at the time), and even then, the tear-out bookmark was missing.
It got damaged in 2009’s Ondoy, and the front cover will never open all the way again without tearing the illustration. But otherwise it’s still readable.
There’s a rather long and spoiler-y review here at The Phantom Project, and WORD. It made me feel I was not alone in what I loved (and found somewhat annoying) about the novel.

Woah, what a find (and in this country to boot)! What I’d do for a hard copy of this. D: It’s a shame the storm ruined the cover. :/

omg, I just realized that I have read this! A high school friend lent me her copy way back then, telling me “it’s fanfiction of Erik’s life of Phantom of the Opera!” Seeing I have a weakness for classic stories being retold from another character’s point of view, of course I read it and enjoyed it.
It was a really nice book; it gave a pretty solid backstory on Erik’s life, and it makes you want to sympathize with him, in spite of his increasing cruelty. I can’t exactly remember the whole book anymore so I can’t give it a proper review, but it’s a book I would definitely recommend any PotO fans to read.

phantominmanila:

Susan Kay’s Phantom: (Still) my best Phantom purchase to date, at Remy’s secondhand bookshop in Cubao, around 2005. I waited for months before it became available (it was still out of print at the time), and even then, the tear-out bookmark was missing.

It got damaged in 2009’s Ondoy, and the front cover will never open all the way again without tearing the illustration. But otherwise it’s still readable.

There’s a rather long and spoiler-y review here at The Phantom Project, and WORD. It made me feel I was not alone in what I loved (and found somewhat annoying) about the novel.

Woah, what a find (and in this country to boot)! What I’d do for a hard copy of this. D: It’s a shame the storm ruined the cover. :/

omg, I just realized that I have read this! A high school friend lent me her copy way back then, telling me “it’s fanfiction of Erik’s life of Phantom of the Opera!” Seeing I have a weakness for classic stories being retold from another character’s point of view, of course I read it and enjoyed it.

It was a really nice book; it gave a pretty solid backstory on Erik’s life, and it makes you want to sympathize with him, in spite of his increasing cruelty. I can’t exactly remember the whole book anymore so I can’t give it a proper review, but it’s a book I would definitely recommend any PotO fans to read.