Title: Locke and Key Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom

Author: Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Publisher: IDW 2011

Genre: Graphic Novel

Pages: 152

Rating:  4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Graphic Novel; Mount TBR; Seriously Series; T4MC -- Cult Classic (20 points); Book Bingo -- 2 from series

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom! With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse evercloser to a revealing conclusion.

I had a few issues with this volume.  Overall, I am still in love with this series.  I love the illustrations.  I love the characters.  I love the general storyline.  My issues came with the pacing of the story and the style.  There are many jump cuts in this volume.  We get snippets of the action as instead of a complete follow through.  The entire first chapter, I was a bit confused by the new style.  And we get a ton of new keys with not much explanation of what they do.  I would have liked a little less stuffed into this one volume.  I like the slower pacing of the first three volumes.  Even with my issues, I still love this story and can't wait to read the conclusion.  But I'll have to until April since I don't have the next volume...  Darn!

Locke and Key:

1. Welcome to Lovecraft
2. Head Games
3. Crown of Shadows
4. Keys to the Kingdom
5. Clockworks
6. Alpha and Omega