Reviews for The Doom of the Haunted Opera : A Lewis Barnavelt Book

The average rating for The Doom of the Haunted Opera : A Lewis Barnavelt Book based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-20 00:00:00 Eric Deussen John Bellairs goes Phantom of the Opera on Lewis and Rose Rita! Not really. The Adults, uncle Jonathan and Mrs Zimmerman, are called to a friends funeral in FL and leave the kids at home. Rose Rita and Lewis explore an abandoned opera house in town for a school paper and Lewis unleashes a curse when he finds a music score in the Orchestra. From then on, a mysterious man sweeps into town claiming to be the grandson of the author of the Opera and he wants to put on the Opera. The music is haunted and will bring about the end of the world. I love opera, but I think it's funny that an opera could bring about the end of the world. The theatre people that come out to put the town on are great, my kind of people. This book was spooky and it seemed the villain would easily win. It was a nail biter to just about the last page. This is one of my favorite Lewis Barnavelt stories. I think it's just about the best one. Sadly, this is the last story with Lewis that John Bellairs wrote. He didn't even finish this story. He ploted and started this idea, but Brad Strickland finished this after John's death. It's one of the last he told. The series does go on for another 6 books, but Brad wrote and plotted them all and I feel this is really the last book. I will miss having new John Bellair books I have one more series of 4 books and then I have read all his stuff, so stay tuned. I'm going to finish them.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-17 00:00:00 Yoshio Katagiri This was one of the Bellairs books I never read and can say that I have now! This one had a lot of scary and really cool moments and I really want a copy of it to own now. It was action packed and so much fun. :)