This comic focuses on Kinsey who kept her younger brother alive by going up onto the roof. Now she has changed her appearance from the wild dreadlocked crazy clothes chick to a more conservative look that blends in and doesn't get noticed. She joins the track and field and a girl there makes overtures of friendship and offers to go running with her in the morning but Kinsey shuts her down. On top of that, the man who was responsible for her father's death and for their moving into Key House has escaped prison and is heading right for them. Kinsey is a difficult character in that while she was able to do her sisterly duty and protect her brother she still feels guilty and to blame for what happened, hence the changing of the clothes and the hair. She refuses to get close to anyone for fear of getting them in danger. She lives in constant fear and she's worried about her younger brother.
Kinsey begins to change some. She dyes part of her hair green and makes friends with some misfits from school. But things go wrong with her friendships when she uses her key to take away her grief and agrees to share a memory with one of them, then does so with the other as well making the first one jealous. Also, she is looking at getting back together with Zach, who it turns out is the Dark Lady of the Well and a bad person who is just using her to get the Omega Key that her brother Ty has.
Ty has been hanging out with Zach and others and been noticing odd things like the pack of wild dogs that happen to come by. Or when he visits his gay friend in the hospital and he describes on to the people who hurt him as having a lip ring like Zach's. Or how Kinsey is now begging him to let her have to Omega Key to hold for a while which was Zach's idea.
This was one of the best of the series. Kinsey begins to realize the power of the keys and how a lack of fear is not always a good thing. How grief can be necessary. Ty, I think has figured this out, but he's older. Bode, the younger brother, is innocent and wants to see the good in people. He also wants to have fun with his key, the ghost key, where he becomes a ghost. This book shows the family divided and at odds with one another. Will they be able to come together to battle Zach and see him for what he is? I give this book five out of five stars.
Quotes
It’s hard to make relationships work with others when you
don’t have a good relationship with yourself.
-Brian (Locke and Key vol 4: Keys to the Kingdom)
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