Key (Seven Wonders Journals, #3) (Seven Wonders)

by Peter Lerangis

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It's been a few years since I read the Tomb of Shadows, the third book in this series and this novella (technically 3.5 in the series) was read with the aim of rekindling my interest in it. Did it? Kind of, not to the extent I hoped though. There are two more books to go in the series which I have in my possession so hopefully I can get through them this year as well, I definitely want to see how the adventure for Jack & Co will end.

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I love Tomb Raiders, I'm a huge fan of Lara Croft and reading something about a similar profession had me excited tbh, I've always wanted to read something on the same wavelength as the before mentioned series and even though it's not as good or on the same badass vibe, it had its moments. It's a pretty short novella but it took a while for me to read, not because it was totally boring because that's not true but because I don't know these characters to actually care about what happens to them.

That reason is because of the nature of the Seven Wonders series, it's a story across eons so a lot of new characters can be included in various books and novellas without the story seeming out of the norm or anything of the sort. The characters, however aren't largely likable in the slightest to increase my interest, not the twins, not their father and definitely not his crew. Of course we can shove that into the "I didn't have the chance to get to know them in a bigger light to make a bigger impression" but since it's a novella I doubt I'll ever be meeting them again for that opinion to change or to actually see the aftermath of that promise our heroine made so yeah, kind of leaves a little more to be desired in that area.

However I did end up regaining a little bit of my interest in the series in the last 20 or so pages of this, so I don't consider it a complete a waste of time and again the last 20 pages are really interesting. I do have a feeling that the so called "Key" they found here will be returning in the main story, or at least I'll be seeing it once again and I definitely hope so since I'm curious to see what it will unlock assuming that it isn't just one of the Seven Loculi our Trio in the main series are supposed to find but that's spoiler territory so let's leave it here lol. I think I want to pick this up soon, not sure when exactly but very very soon.

Final rating: 3/5