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Book Review of Lock and Key

Lock and Key
Lock and Key
Author: Sarah Dessen
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


I normally don't read Young Adult fiction because I find the books are too shallow. This book wasn't as shallow as I thought it would be, but the pacing is very slow. If this book and a glacier had a race, the glacier would win. There's not much of a plot. The story drags in sections. I skimmed some pages just so that I could get past them. There are sections that are repetitive. Too many undeveloped characters are introduced and the main characters such as the sister and the brother-in-law aren't developed enough to get a real sense of who they are. Actually most of the main characters are pretty flat and one dimensional.

This book isn't terrible, but it's not great either. It's just average.