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Phantom of the Opera

Rating: 7.0/10 (1 vote cast)

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The mask, the music, the dark mysteries, and the tortured, deformed genius who just wants love. “The Phantom of the Opera” is so well known that its story needs no explanation. But Gaston Leroux’s novel is still a spellbinding experience, full of atmospheric horror, a sense of gothic mystery, and lushly evocative language. But its crown jewel is Erik: a magnificently tortured anti-hero who inspires more horror, pity and sympathy [...]

Saving Rachel (A Donovan Creed Crime Novel)

John Locke

Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

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Saving Rachel came to me quite by accident. I was about to go on vacation and I went to books critics in search of a nice tight read for the beach which was not to burn a hole in my pocket. I chanced on Saving Rachel, and bought it primarily because of the reviews and then because of the price. I cannot say I regret it. it IS a good [...]

The People of the Mist

Henry Rider Haggard

Rating: 4.3/10 (3 votes cast)

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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, the so-called “Father of the Lost Race Novel,” didn’t write such stories featuring only Allan Quatermain and Ayesha, She Who Must Be Obeyed. For example, his 17th novel, “The People of the Mist” (1894), is a smashing, wonderfully exciting, stand-alone lost-race tale featuring all-new characters. But the first third of the novel is hardly a lost-race story at all, but rather one of hard-bitten African adventure.