Book Review: Phantasma by Kaylie Smith

Posted September 5, 2024 by Zoé in Book Review / 0 Comments

MY REVIEW

I need a few minutes to calm down from this book, it needs a HUGE spice warning – colour me flustered. I devoured this book the same way Ophelia was devoured! I LOVED everything about this book, from the gorgeous cover to the words that flowed inside. It had me hooked line and sinker.

Don’t be thinking this was just a spicy book with romance thrown in, no no no no no no, as we travel through the Nine circles of hell, there are some brutal and I do mean brutal deaths! Some were so deserved, there were so many awful creatures (I can’t even think of them as humans) who were trying to win the prize in Phantasma. They made the devils look almost friendly! One word = Cade The descriptions were detailed and the deaths were so creative, I have to say!

This book gave me Big Brother feels, mixed in with Survivor, and Squid Games to say the least, in how the levels progressed. The “tasks” they had to complete, obviously were not in the same capacity – unless we suddenly see people running from swinging axes, or stone columns dropping by. (Well maybe Squid Games) Ophelia mesmerised me, with her backstory, how she ended up in Phantasma, her sister, and the chapter we learn about the “Creator” too.

The narrator was just fantastic, although, how she narrated those scenes – hats off to her!

I was here for all of it! I can’t tell you enough how much I loved this book!

These characters will definitely make you squirm, cheer, and get a little hot under the collar. It is such a wild ride and I was obsessed – I just want to read the next book now!

Until the next time xxx

Thank you so much for Noelle @ Second Sky Books for the tour invite, and a copy of the book in return for my honest and unbiased review.

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