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Locke & Key
Locke Key
Author: Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Hea...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781600102370
ISBN-10: 1600102379
Publication Date: 9/29/2008
Pages: 152
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 26
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ophelia99 avatar reviewed Locke & Key on + 2527 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is the first full length graphic novel which contains the first six issues of the Welcome to Lovecraft story arc. It was a really good collection. The drawings are beautiful and in full color and the story is creepy and intricate. There are two more full length graphic novels out already; Head Games and Crown of Shadows. The fourth is being released issue to issue this year and is called Keys to the Kingdom.

After the murder of their father Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode Locke relocate to the Keyhouse with their mother. Bode finds that certain keys lead through certain doors that do things; the one he finds turns him into corporeal form for as long as he wants. Meanwhile the kid that murdered the Lockes' dad is trying to escape from juvenile detention to come back and finish what he started. Also Bode meets someone mysterious in a well outside the house.

This book is very creepy in a number of ways. You have a brutal murderer on the loose at one point, a house with doors that lead you to mysterious place and do mysterious things, and a strange creepy person in a well. It was a great story and the illustrations are just wonderful. It was very engaging and very hard to put down. The characters are well done and you are really rooting for them throughout the book. This is definitely a horror novel.

Overall a great graphic novel. It is on the borderline of being a bit too creepy for me. I am super curious about what else the Locke's will find in the house though, so I will definitely pick up the next compilation "Head Games".
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my2luvsemmyandmally avatar reviewed Locke & Key on + 758 more book reviews
Really did not care for this storyline !


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