Key of Valor (Key Trilogy, 3)

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Summary: Better and Better!
Review: Three women whose souls are locked, waiting for release. Three women who can find the keys, if only they have the courage to search.

She was a teen mom from the wrong side of the tracks who took a lot of twists and turns in order to build a life for herself and her son. She's put her financial future on the line in order to build her dream business. She's put a year of her life on the line in order to save the sisters of glass. But can she put her heart on the line again and risk losing everything she's worked for?

Nora Roberts is an amazing author who just gets better and better. The final installation of the "Key" series really touched me.

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Summary: Not a bad ending
Review: This is the final book to Nora Robert's Key series. Having read the first one (Key of Light), I was really interested in these characters. The second one was'nt bad, but it was'nt as good as I had hoped. It's always hard to keep a reader's attention for three books and Nora did a pretty good job of it, but it was'nt quite right. Not to say this book didn't have it's good moments it did, but it wasn't as exciting as I had hoped and it seemed really long.

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Summary: Roberts Trilogies are Awesome
Review: Key of Valor was an awesome book. I read the whole trilogy in three days!! This book, the first in the trilogy, was great and it kept me in suspense. Love Nora Roberts books, have pretty much all of her books. AWESOME author.

Jaime White
www.jpassistants.com

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Summary: Of the three books in the series...this is not the best.
Review: I read The Key Trilogy in one weekend. The first two books were engrossing, and Roberts did a great job developing the characters and their interactions between each other. I thoroughly enjoyed reading how Malory and Flynn's relationship blossomed, as well as Dana and Jordan's. On the other hand, Zoe and Brad were not as enticing of a pair as I had hoped. They had some great lines -- and Simon, the son, was awesome -- but overall the spark was missing between those two.

Upon reading the story, I got the impression that they got together merely because all of their other friends hooked up. Zoe's constant complaining, whining, and defensiveness got very old. Brad seemed like a nice guy, but I couldn't figure out why he was willing to stick with Zoe's whining. I guess it was Simon that made sticking in the relationship worthwhile.....

I was disappointed and sad that this last book in the series ended so flatly. I was happy it all came together in the end, but the characters needed some more work.

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Summary: super ending to a great paranormal series!
Review: Key of Valor is fitting end to the Key trilogy. It lacks the wonder of "new" of the first book, and does not back the emotional pack of the second, but it sustains the series end ends it with style. The thrill of paranormal books is being able to set your own rules and boundaries, and Roberts handles this with skill and fun.

They three books really need to be read together and in order, for it's very clear Roberts presumes you have read the book(s) that came before with each. But they are fast reads, enjoyable reads, and you are coming late to the series, as I have, you have the chance to read them all at once instead of waiting between installments.

This is some of the best writing Roberts has done this decade, and it's exciting to see Roberts venture in to the paranormal element so strongly based on Pict-Celt lore and myths as the foundation.

In the final tale, the quest to find the third key falls to Zoe McCourt, the mother. It's clear to us, if not to Zoe, that her ability to finding the third key, to release the demi-goddesses from their imprisonment by the evil sorcerer Zane, is her ability to find love with Brad Vane. It's not easy for Zoe, a girl raised in a trailer park. Her father left her and her three siblings to be raised alone by her hairdresser mother. It was a rough beginning leaving a young Zoe to yearn for finer things in life. The path to that better life seemed to fall apart when at sixteen Zoe became pregnant. Once again, the man in her life deserts her, leaving her to make a life for her and her son, Simon. That the father of Simon was a rich boy only makes it harder for Brad ¯ a very rich man ¯ to convince Zoe he truly wants a role in her life. Brad is determined to be at Zoe's side as she searches for the key, but Zoe's past experience with men sees her expecting Brad to bail one the quest is over and she doesn't want to be hurt again, doesn't want her son hurt.

This book sees Rowanne and Pitte taking a stronger role in the outcome. Since Zane has failed to abide by the rules of the Enchantment, Rowanne and Pitte risk their chance to return to the magical kingdom, in order to protect Zoe and her son.

It's a super ending to the trilogy. So if you like paranormals, don't miss this very fresh and vital tales!

Super use of Multi-POV (Point of View), the way all romances should be written!

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Summary: very enjoyable!
Review: leave it to me to go on a long drive and pick up the third book in the series instead of the 1st. HAD to read something so I went ahead and read it. And really joyed the premise. Very fresh tale from Roberts. Going back to start over and I am sure I will enjoy it more once I have read the first two

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Summary: A Trilogy where the last book was the best book
Review: Roberts truly saved the best for last when writing this book. Zoe McCourt is a strong yet fragile character, and the final quest for the key was the strongest. After finishing this series, I wish there was more to read about them, as they were truly interesting women. A must for any fan of Nora Roberts!