This is the day of the week where we get to know each other better by answering a question devised by our lovely hostesses Parajunkee & Alisoncanread. We also gain new followers by joining each other's sites via GFC, so please let me know if you're a new follower. And now for this week's question....
Q. What is the last book to kept you up late into the night to finish it?
A. The last books I read that were really really good were the Locke and Key series by Joe Hill.
It will blow your mind how good they are!
They are graphic novels.. so they are really short. Takes maybe an hour to read or so. But they are good!!! They will blow your mind... if you are bored right now you should take the time to glance through my reviews... Locke and Key. I have some cool pics on each review!
This is the latest Locke and Key out until volume 6.. which has no release date so I am patiently waiting to see how this series will end! Here is the goodreads description:
Colonel Adam Crais's minutemen are literally trapped between a rock and a hard place; in the first days of the Revolutionary War, they find themselves hiding beneath 120 feet of New England stone, with a full regiment of redcoats waiting for them in the daylight... and a door into hell in the cavern below. The black door is open, and it's up to a 16-year-old smith named Ben Locke to find a way to close it. The biggest mysteries of the Locke & Key series are resolved as Clockworks opens, not with a bang, but with the thunderous crash of English cannons.
So for those of you following my blog this is the last Locke and Key review you have to see for a while. Yes I know... I keep posting them. But the next one doesn't come out for a while so it's your lucky day!!
This volume is sooo revealing! You actually start to feel bad for the villain on these graphic novels! I don't want to add spoilers in here so I won't. A few more keys are seen in this one.. but mainly you get to see all the keys used. Especially in the past in this book.. which I always love a good flashback in books. The more I read these novels the more Rodriguez's art sucks me in. It is now becoming soo creepy. Here is some of the variety of illustrations that you will find in this volume: This amazing drawing is looking inside someone's mind:
And here is a scary picture!!!
Looks like this volume came out in June of this year so I won't get my hands on the next one for a while.
This is one of my all time favorite graphic novel series. These comics are what I have been looking for in graphic novels! Here is the goodreads description:
Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into itsfourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom With more keys making themselvesknown, and the depths of the Locke's family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge'sdesperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse evercloser to a revealing conclusion.
OK another amazing arc in the Locke and Key series. I just love that we are discovering more and more keys. Though... sometimes I get a little confused so I have to check the back of the book to remember what keys do. Though this time around I noticed some keys aren't featured in the back and I am not sure why. Like my favorite key is the one with the red mask on it, and I don't see it in the key index in the back of the book! I looked for an image of it on the web too and this is the only one I found (without taking a picture of my book)... it is on the bottom third one on the left.
The art in this issue is interesting... I like how Rodriguez switches up his art work and even give homage to Calvin and Hobbes. The ending of this volume is an amazing cliff hanger... at least I have volume 5 in my hands. But after that one who knows when I will get to read volume 6. I have found no real information on the internet about it. Though Joe Hill did tweet me back when I asked him how many volumes lock and key will have!
So that is way cool... well that he answered me not that there will be only 6 volumes. I wish there was going to be more!!!
I can't get enough of this graphic novel series. This volume was much more spooky then the first two. I just love it! ! Here is the goodreads description of the 3rd volume:
Sam Lesser may be dead and gone, but Dodge still has uses for him, and in the first chill days of October, will make contact with him again. The dead know things the living may not, and Sam's restless spirit has had time to discover the thing Dodge wants to know most of all... where to find the key to the black door.
Oh wow... this volume did not let me down. I am really loving the edition of new keys. And uncovering more and more mysteries. For those that don't know this graphic novel series is by Stephen King's son! It is about a family living in a mansion that has all these keys that do magic things. Ok that is not the best explanation but I have never been one who is good at recapping what a book is about only how I feel about it. Unfortunately I can't find anywhere on the internet how many books are going to be in this series. Does anyone know??
I also found out that there is a company doing replicas of the keys from the book. O M G !!! (yea that was me in my teenager voice). Here is a link to where you can buy them Skeleton Crew Studio . I mean HELLO!! I need to start collecting them right now. Here is an article with the guys who make them Keys Come to Life.
Here are pictures of all the keys!!!
There are actually a few more keys... you can go to their website to see them!!! Want to see my reviews on the other volumes in the series?
I really enjoyed the first Locke and Key graphic novel so I had to get the second one from the library as fast as I could!! Here is the goodreads description:
New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the acclaimed Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, return with the next chapter in the ongoing tale, Head Games. Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret. Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle out the secret of the head key, and Uncle Duncan is jarred into the past by a disturbingly familiar face. Open your mind - the head games are just getting started
This second book in the Locke and Key series was not as good as the first to me. But still very good. I like how we are introduced to new keys in each book. This book was about a key that allows you to open you mind-literally. You can put in and take out anything you want. Very interesting... made me think what would I take out. Fear? Sadness? A memory? Again the art work in this book is so great!! The two minds work together perfectly (Hill the writer, Rodriguez illustrator). The novels are a little more violent then I thought they would be. The villain is ruthless. No one is safe. What is Luke's purpose? So many questions be intriguing enough to keep me coming back for more! I didn't really care about the main key in this book till I saw how Luke used it for evil!!!
I have been wanting to read this for a while... and then when I saw my library has them I checked them out right away!!! Here is the goodreads description:
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez.
Oh wow!! I love graphic novels. And I have to admit when I found out Joe Hill wrote one I was in. For those that don't know Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. And I love Stephen King. In fact I run the Stephen King Fan group on goodreads. I will admit when I first heard about Joe Hill I thought he is a guy who is an author who is probably just popular because his dad is. BUT NO! I promise you Joe Hill is good! And I must admit I love all the graphic novels based on King's books. Especially the Dark Tower graphic novels. So I was totally in when I heard about these.
I have tried to get Hill to stop by the Stephen King group for a Q&A. Though I am sure when your dad is as famous as King and the group is called "Stephen King Fans" then he probably totally expected to get bombarded with King questions. Though I wouldn't let the group ask about King and if I saw I King question I would've just deleted it. But alas the Q&A never happened. :( I also saw Joe Hill at Comic Con San Diego this year signing copies of Locke and Key. I ALMOST got in line but I hadn't read any of them at that time and I was not sure how the conversation would've gone when I got in line. So what was your favorite part... well I haven't exactly read them yet. So I skipped out. :( Now I regret it. Here is a pick though that I snapped of him!
OK so onto the review... this graphic novel is amazing!!!! I love love love it. I mean the story here is great. Several keys that open several doors in the mansion (Key House) and each door opens different things. The book is creepy and spooky and the art work by Gabriel Rodriguez is amazing. It adds so much to the story! Here are a couple images:
LOVE THESE! I see some people compare this to the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. I don't know what to say about that since I could never get through Sandman. I don't even know why!!! Also did you know this was almost picked up for a TV series? Here is the trailer... which is quite well made
