The Skeleton Key (Pandora English, #3) in Aussie Readers

Jan 09, 2013 Marissa Novels On The Run rated it really liked it

Back again with Pandora English in the third book of the series by Tara Moss.

In The Skeleton Key we get to see more events take place and a great "end of world" saga that brings with it, finally, the opportunity for Pandora to use her skill as the Seventh! It's taken up to book 3 and a whole lot of vague answers from Deus, Lt. Luke & Great-Aunt Celia for Pandora to know one of her Seventh abilities is that of a necromancer.

What do I love about The Skeleton Key? It's got ZOMBIES!! If only for a Back again with Pandora English in the third book of the series by Tara Moss.

In The Skeleton Key we get to see more events take place and a great "end of world" saga that brings with it, finally, the opportunity for Pandora to use her skill as the Seventh! It's taken up to book 3 and a whole lot of vague answers from Deus, Lt. Luke & Great-Aunt Celia for Pandora to know one of her Seventh abilities is that of a necromancer.

What do I love about The Skeleton Key? It's got ZOMBIES!! If only for a few pages....but they are there! Oh how I love me some dead peeps!! (Yes....The Walking Dead is my fave show!).

Hidden passages, doorways and Dr. Barrett's lab are discovered with the use of The Skeleton Key! Tara Moss gives us a lovely dark and sinister walk through the underground passageways of Number One Addams Avenue, Spektor. With mysteries lying further below ground than Pandora should go - she is drawn to what is below the basement.

With the arrival of Dr Barrett and his widow (both long deceased), come further warnings of something dark and menacing in the mansion......just who has hitched a ride on Dr Barrett's dead travels? And what has this thing done with darling Lt. Luke to make him try kill Pandora? eeeeck!

With every new door and passage that Pandora stumbles across, she comes closer to the dead awakening that will bring about the end of the world.

One question I do constantly find myself wondering..........Tara, with Pandora living on "Addams" Avenue......surely her workmate "Morticia" will have to be involved somewhere!

One little bit of trivia.....I love that Tara has shed the light on some vampire - oops I mean Sanguine - quirks.......throw a handful of rice on the ground and watch the darling dead diva's count!! The few references of Pandora tossing the rice had me chuckling...I can just imagine the internal angst the sanguine have with having the NEED to count the grains!

So what's next for Pandora English? December 2013 we will be graced with THE COBRA QUEEN (book4) which Tara is researching ancient Egypt for. ...more

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Jan 30, 2013 Tracey rated it liked it

Shelves: 2013, fantasy-sci-fi, fiction, ghost, young-adult

This is the third book in the series and I just do not know whether I will continue or not. I thought after the second novel that things would pick up but I just found this novel heading in the same direction. I have to admit it I was disappointed and I cannot identify just why I did not really get into this novel.
We again have Pandora facing down an end of the world type scenario and again she tries to resolve the situation with little or no information about what was is going on. Pandora is b This is the third book in the series and I just do not know whether I will continue or not. I thought after the second novel that things would pick up but I just found this novel heading in the same direction. I have to admit it I was disappointed and I cannot identify just why I did not really get into this novel.
We again have Pandora facing down an end of the world type scenario and again she tries to resolve the situation with little or no information about what was is going on. Pandora is beginning to border on inept. She bumbles her way through the great event that is coming her way and has no idea what she is meant to be doing. It was too numerous how many times that I wanted Pandora to grab Deus, her Aunt, Luke and whoever else and say ‘enough with the so-called mystery, I know something is coming so how up you tell wtf it is.’ It was just frustrating reading over and over, something evil coming, something evil and powerful is in the house and no one will tell Pandora what it is. Let me recant that, what is annoying is that Pandora never forces the issue she just accepts that people will tell her no more. I really wanted to see Pandora more proactive, instead she just seems to muddle along and somehow survives and everyone applauds how much power is. I do appreciate that Pandora struggles to be brave, struggles to make decisions just as any person would but she seems so ease at having all this power and not understanding it.
I really do like the research Moss has done, it weaves it way through the story and you never feel you are being lectured. I like that there is more to the story than a paranormal romance and that Pandora struggles to understand her place in the normal world, like everyone else does.
I do not know why but the novel just seems to lack something and I am not sure what. Maybe I was expecting something more from this book.
It was a super quick read and I knocked it over in a day and a bit. Maybe the problem was that I wanted a denser more complex novel so I could really be carried off into this marvelous world Moss has created.
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