From Angel's Eyes by Kat097

One of my favourite fanfic-writers is doubltlessly Kat097, also known as Kat or Katie. She's a english writer whose fandooms are mainly Harry Potter, Teen Titans, Tin Man, Twilight and Phantom of the Opera. 

"From Angel's Eyes" is the first of a two part Phantom of the Opera based story - the other part being "From Heaven's Mind"- written in 2005. It starts of with Christine, who's taking part in a college production of the musical  "The Phantom of the Opera" - mainly based on the 2003 movie. There she gets the main role, meets Erik, an eccentric and billionary producer with whom she falls in love; and makes friends with the rest of the cast.  

It's a rather simple story, with a predictible end, but what's so cool about it is the fact that it tells 'normal' lives - not so normal, because, honestly, how many of you meet eccentric billionaires who fall in love with you? Thought so. But even so, the characters are round and have usual problems, there's no evil guy, no big catastrophy, only your average humans having trouble coping with life and having fun and loving. 

Katie's PotO stories are mainly based on the 2003 movie, which can at times be tireing, because that movie sort of missed the whole point of the Phantom by putting Gerard Butler in the main role and forgetting to give him a disfigurement. Her - Katie's - Phantoms allways wear a halfmask and have a gorgeous other have of the face - again, missing the point, but's fanfic-world, you may do that. Her stories are also mainly E/C, so poor Raoul is usually either completly left out or just there for a bit. 

A lot of her stories - and in my opinion, those are the best - are set in the modern world, another very recommendable story is "The Girl Next Door"about which I'll be talking some time soon. 

Anyway, about the characters in "From Angel's Eyes":

Christine is a british student who's mourning the loss of her parents in a carcrash two years previously. She lives alone with her dog Trister in a house she owns and goes to college in her own town. Her best friend is called Meg and is something like her only friend until she starts in the musical. 

Erik, is the eccentric billionaire producer that gets an interest in the sad young girl. Runs accidentaly over her dog, invites her out and generally just is there until she gets the hint. He's acompanied by Nadir Kahn - the Persian - who's  something like a butler/bestfriend/elder brother/anything-that-Erik-may-need. In the end it's only thanks to Nadir's medling and pushing the characters together that they end up so. 

All in all it's a very interesting story, pretty good written - From Heaven's Mind has some typing misetakes, but's rather good as well. I highliy recomend the first part, the second one is  good as well, but I like "From Angel's Eyes" better.