HarperCollins The Key, Crime & Thriller, Paperback, Simon Toyne
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Brand: HarperCollins
Description: Conspiracy thrillers don't come any bigger or better than THE KEY - from the author of the bestselling thriller debut of 2011, SANCTUS: 'Plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and wonderfully imaginative. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting' Kate Mosse. HarperCollins The Key, Crime & Thriller, Paperback, Simon Toyne - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780007391622
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Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: Murder,crime,mystery,Thriller,The,Police,action,Fiction,killer,and,detective,Family,suspense,Of,adventure,
ISBN: 9780007391622
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Author: SJATurney
Rating: 5
Review: Like most of the readers of Sanctus (I would guess) I finished that book wondering how on Earth Simon was going to follow it up. The ending of the first was pretty world-shaking, after all. It took me a long time to getting round to reading The Key, largely because of a heavy reading list requirement and not having the free moments, but I have always had it floating in my MUST GET TO pile. I finally discovered that I had free moments and leapt on the books with a sense of urgent excitement. It took me maybe the first 50-60 pages to make my mind up about it. It seemed to be a little jarring after the end of the first in some ways, despite flowing almost seamlessly in others. In retrospect, I put this down to having spent too long away and not being caught up properly. Certainly as soon as I was familiar once more with the characters and settings, I was racing away, turning pages at a rate of knots. The story seems to be wide and in parts unconnected for a while, but if you've read Sanctus, you'll be prepared for the ingenious ways that the apparently baffling disparate tie in to the story's heart. As with Sanctus, I got the end marvelling at it and smiling at the perfect neatness of it and yet kicking myself because I should have been able to piece it together. Where the first book focused entirely on Gabriel and Liv and their allies and the mysterious citadel of Ruin and the dark secret it has housed since the earliest days (no spoilers in my reviews, gov), the second in the series focuses on the source of the Sacrament: the garden of Eden and a hunt set against the clock with the prize being a nebulous good but the cost of failure being deadly to those characters we follow and appalling for the world in general. As characters we liked from book 1 become all the more fabulous, we are introduced to a succession of new villains of the most vile and odious kinds (and often the merely misguided or stupid) and new locations (the Vatican was clearly going to become involved at some point). The addition of a few twists that made me raise my eyebrows made it a masterpiece for me. Where I started unsure and a little out of my depth, it took only a few breaths before I was being dragged headlong through the tale by Toyne's action narrative and by the end I was grumbling that it was over and trying to rearrange my pile to shuffled The Tower to the top. I certainly won't leave it any longer than I have to. Bravo on a superb follow up. Loved it.
Author: Perry Wolfecastle
Rating: 3
Review: I’m not sure how I feel about this one. It’s 3.25-.5 stars. It does really well at continuing the world building and the deepening (to an extent) of the lore established in Santus. Add to that a rather good job of bringing that into the real world and marry the two together. The pacing, as would be expected of this genre, it extremely fast. The bad part is that for all the fast-paced running around, not that much of note actually happens in most of the book. We sort of dance around in a holding pattern for a while and even find that a couple of characters and the roles they played along with events were really not needed at all. At best, they’re just filler explained away or disposed of quickly. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy The Key, I did, it’s very much a vacation read
