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  • The Key to Fear

  • The Key Series, Book 1
  • By: Kristin Cast
  • Narrated by: Dascha Polanco
  • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)
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The Key to Fear

By: Kristin Cast
Narrated by: Dascha Polanco
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Summary

No touching today for a healthy tomorrow.

For 50 years, the Key Corporation has defended humanity against a deadly virus that spreads through touch. Lovers don’t kiss, or even hold hands. Personal boundaries are valued above all. Break the laws, and you’ll face execution.

Elodie, a talented young nurse, believes in the mission of the Key and has never questioned the laws that control her life. But Elodie is forced to break the rules when she sets out in search of a terminal patient who goes missing while under her care.

From the outside, it seems like Aiden was given everything he could want from the Key - a purpose, an education, and a future. But Aiden knows more than he’s letting on, and the dark secrets he’s keeping could tear the Key’s strict society apart.

When Elodie and Aiden’s lives collide, the fallout will be devastating. What do you do when the brutal system that once kept you safe hunts you down?

Run. 

©2020 Kristin Cast (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

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Ruined by narration!

Wanted to get into the story which had potential but had to give up as the narration was so awful!

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Great story, dreadful narration.

The story was very enjoyable and screams out for a sequel. However, the narration was terrible! The narrator doesn’t appear to be able to sound t’s which makes some of the words almost impossible to understand. There was zero emotion and was read so monosyllabic that one couldn’t distinguish where one sentence ended and another began. I had to slow down the narration to try to interpret what was being said.
That said, I persevered as I wanted to know how the story would unfold. I’m glad I did as it was a very good story. I do hope Kristin writes a sequel, but I really hope a different narrator is used in future.

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Truly horrible narration

I like the story, but it was ruined by terrible narration. Emphasis in the wrong places, pauses in the wrong places. Half the time it seemed like the narrator had zoned out and wasn’t concentrating on the contents of the story.

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Can't get past the horrific narration

I quite like the story but I CANNOT listen to the horrible narrator anymore. Guess I'll have to buy an actual book and read it.

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Destroyed by narration

I’m sure I could have gotten into this story of it weren’t for the monosyllabic and painful narration. All emphasis was in the wrong place, she just sounded bored. Couldn’t make it to the end of the first chapter.

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