A review by libraryofjess_
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith

adventurous dark mysterious

4.5

✨4.5 stars ✨ 

🌶️ 2 spice 🌶️

“In a different life, in a fair one, I would’ve kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust,”

This was so fun. This was like Caraval but make it dark, spicy, and a violent. 

I really enjoyed the whole preface of this book. Having deadly challenges and paranormal characters really made this book stand out for me. 

Let me say right now, Blackwell. What a man. And then add Blackwell with Ophelia, perfection. And what a mouth Blackwell has, for example, “I promise you’ll prefer where my mouth is going next.”…what more can I say.

Ophelia’s character development was so well done in this. She was such a strong character in this. I also enjoyed seeing representation of OCD for her character. 

I will say I did rate this lower than five stars just because I felt the ending didn’t really have the impact that I was expecting. Yes, it was good but I feel that it was a little bit rushed in a sense.

In saying that, I did enjoy the book as a whole. Loved the atmosphere and the characters. The games were intriguing and the romance was perfection. This was a standalone and I am really looking forward to reading the next book in this series! 

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Happy reading 🤍