A review by amy_reads4
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is everything I love about reading, and has really relit my motivation to read and get lost in a book like I did this one. 

Phantasma was our main read for November for Coven Book Club, and I have finished it by the 4th, but I just could not stop reading. 

This book follows Ophelia as she not only inherits her mums necromancy magic but also has to follow her sister into the deadly Phantasma, a competition based in magic mansion, full of secrets, ghouls, ghosts, devils and things trying to kill you at every turn. Ophelia must get through these trials to be able to find her sister. She meets a very handsome Phantom, who quite often takes his belt off using only one hand whilst maintaining eye contact, and things will never be the same again. 

I just could not get enough of this story, there were so many answers I needed and the thing I really loved about this is it finished with very little unanswered questions and I feel the ending was exactly what I wanted and needed it to be. This is full of every I enjoy, fantasy, romance, mysteries, trials, paranormal creatures, magic, magical mansion, ghost cat, all things spooky and a good amount of spice! The writing style made it so easy to read and it just keep me guessing and desperate to find out what happened next. I cannot recommend this enough, it was just delicious in all the right ways