Overall Rating: 3.25/5
Overall, I did enjoy
The Key To Fear. The world-building was definitely the most interesting
aspect of it. For example, I loved reading about how this futuristic city has
made use of new technologies to ward off the impending virus, Cerebus, and keep people apart.
I did also feel like the characters were pretty well fleshed-out, but I still
think they could have benefitted from a bit more depth to their personas and
motives.
I definitely did not
see the two major plot twists come at the end of the book. They really shocked
me, and I’m intrigued to see how they will play out in the next book. I will
say though, that I think the thing that annoyed me the most was how dumb Elodie
and Adrian were when they were caught doing what they should not have been
doing. I totally understand why it happened, and I was definitely rooting for
the two of them as a couple. But like, seriously?! Couldn’t they have just
stopped making out before the train came out of the dark tunnel, so as not to
get caught? Haha.
In lieu of the
currently pandemic going on, I also definitely think that The Key To Fear hit
a bit harder in a personal manner than if we weren’t all experiencing a
pandemic. Some of the regulations Elodie mentions, the social distancing, the
general disgust at being a bit closer to any human being, is definitely
something that I also see reflected in our current society, although obviously
not to such an extreme extent. The socio-economic ideas presented in this book
are definitely something to mull over.
I hope that in the
next book(s), we will learn more about Cerebus as a virus, the history on how
the Key rose to power, as well as more information on Normandy and his creepy medical
experiments.
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