A review by scburhans
The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth

4.0

So I actually read this book because I found out it was the source material for Andrew Lloyd Weber's Love Never Dies. Let me tell you, I have some opinions. This book was SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING than the plot of LND. Barely ANYTHING from this book made it through to the finished musical - basically just the idea that the Phantom went to New York and opened up a park on Coney Island. The whole Pierre thing (re-named Gustave? for some reason?) was so much more ambiguous in the musical as well. This book was SO MUCH BETTER. While the plot was a little convoluted, and there were some choices that confused me, overall the book was fun! I'm not a huge fan of the musical, but I am a much bigger fan of this book.

Read for the 2020 Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge, Prompt 25: A book related to the arts