Review: Great start to this e-serial!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Passionate Overture is just the beginning and seems to set the tone for the rest of the series. I have not read Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, nor have I watched the musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber, so I won’t be able to tell you much about whether Master of the Opera is similar, but so far I am intrigued and a little creeped out (in a good way).Christine Davis is an apprentice at the Sante Fe Opera House. She is stuck doing a lot of inventory work in the lower levels of the Opera house when she meets the “Opera Ghost” for the first time. She is quite freaked out about it as anyone would be since her predecessor went missing. However, Christine has an intense dream about the Ghost, and he has only shown kindness to her. She isn’t sure what to think of that. After being introduced to Christine, the Ghost, and Ramon, one of the the Opera House owners, you start to feel that love triangle that I anticipate will happen.Jeffe’s description of the Opera House provides you with the image of beauty and the lovely sound of music. Jeffe also describes the lower levels in the Opera House in a way that makes the hair on your neck stand up along with Christine’s at times. There is especially one part that would cause me to have a panic attack if I were the Christine. I love it when books can make me really experience those emotions. Passionate Overture sets up the Master of the Opera series nicely and definitely ends in a way that makes you want to pick up the next Act rather quickly to find out what happens next.