The Legacy of the Key

Well, I didn't all out hate it. However I've read much better fantasy, much better action and much better young adult-ish genre books. It was a lot of of talk and not even close to enough show. Scenes went on way too long. Pages and pages of characters telling our less exciting than a pool noodle “heroine” (using the term loosely, because she did NOTHING) that she deserved explanations and would get explanations at some point. In the future. Maybe. Eventually. When we did finally get what I think was reasons, it was all so vague it didn't much matter. After that it was a bunch of wandering around palaces, gardens, woods, and neighboring villages with no plot advancement. Reece just worried her pretty little blonde head over how her life had changed and how much she had fallen for her tru wuv all while hating on the meany royal snobbery. It felt like the author might have been going for a Jane Austen type vibe with some Mean Girls thrown in for laughs...or for propping up said heroine. It didn't work.

I was almost excited to get the big action/climatic/fight scenes. Then I thought better of it and set my expectations low. The car race had great promise. Problem was it didn't just fall flat, it cratered. There was nothing that ever showed how evil or menacing or even scary the bad guys were. We were just told that was so and should thus believe it. The great meeting in Scotland? Nothing happened there either. Alien 1 throws a fit and makes demands. Aliens 2-5 nod in agreement. Good guys burst in, take control. CEO of the good guys makes a long winded speech. Aliens 2-5 change their minds. Alien 1 vows to get his revenge all while skulking off with his tail between his legs. Everyone goes home with no blood shed or injuries. And everyone lives happily every after...for now...while the evil bad guys and the mean girls regroup and plan another way to get their revenge.

Oh and if Levi called Reece ‘my Love' one more time, I was going to start throwing things (a big pet peeve of mine. She has a freakin' name. Just because you love her doesn't mean you can't use it anymore)

On the plus side, the descriptions were nice and the horses were sweet, lovable creature.

I really don't see myself ever picking up book 2.