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It’s not really plot-driven - it’s not really character-driven either! Locke & Key’s “story” just kinda… floats there. Then it’s a waiting game until something resembling a plot emerges in the final act. He targets an old girlfriend of Rendell’s (the Locke kids’ dead dad) who recognises him, and he continues to torment Rufus, the son of the woman he’s living with. Hmm, not a whole lot happens in the fourth Locke & Key book: Zack/Dodge is still monotonously hunting for the Omega Key.
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