Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1
ISBN: 0515143804
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515143805
ASIN: 0515143804
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
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In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys-Caleb, Fox, and Gage-went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men-and the women who love them.
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 Blood Brothers July 19, 2008
Wonderful !! I loved the whole series it was just so well written such a love story. Timeless !!
Blood Brothers July 17, 2008
This book and the second are awesome writings, My only regret is that I have ot wait till December for hte final book. Just have to reread. That will be enjoyable. Agian another well written book. Throughly enjoyed it.
Could have been better, but decent! July 17, 2008
What would you do if you were 10 years old and your actions unwittingly allowed a demon to escape? A demon who rises every seven years for seven days? A demon who reeks havoc in a small town you love, and hurts innocent people? How will the guilt and regret shape and develop you as a person? These issues are at the crux of Nora Roberts "Sign of 7" trilogy.
Three friends (Gage, Fox and Cal) head into the woods, for a night of freedom to celebrate their 10th birthday. They plan to eat junk food (Little Debbie's), smoke cigarettes, drink a little beer and look at Playboy magazines. To solidify their camaraderie and friendship, they complete a blood oath which opens a cage that was closed centuries ago letting out an unspeakable evil. Unfortunately, this cage contained some entity who returns every 7 years for 7 days to cause trouble in town of Hawkins Hollow. During these seven days, people do things they normally would never do. Things that they later don't remember or understand. Now grown men, with careers of their own, these three friends dedicate themselves to "cleaning up" the mess resulting from their childhood misadventure. Vowing to return home whenever the need arises. However, soon three women (Cybil, Quinn and Layla) arrive in Hawkins Hollow, and find themselves drawn to not only the town, but the three men. As the six friends attempt to decipher the mystery of the Pagan Stone, they also draw closer to each other.
My only criticism is that...to me...Roberts could have made this one good book versus stretching it out into three! The effort to make it a trilogy really takes away from the pace of the novel, and at times from the story. The action is sporadic and at times non-existent, which makes the story feel forced. So by the time the bad guy shows up (in either the form of a dog or a small boy), it is not that scary, but anticipated by the reader. However, in order to see how the demon is defeated, and how the relationships continue to evolve between the characters, I intend to read the remaining two books in the series. Because when it is all said and done, Nora Roberts is a wonderful writer, and hopefully, in the next two, I will see more of that.
 Same predictable six characters, different trilogy July 12, 2008
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One thing you can count on with Nora Roberts is that she repeats, repeats and repeats. Not only her same 6 characters in each of her trilogies, but the same, word for word dialogs, story to story. As she has gotten older she has dumbed down her stories so much that dialog is restated in every sentence as if the characters AND the readers were absolute morons. In her effort to seem "hip" she has truncated dialogs into meaningless sentences. She continues to name and label drop until she destroys plausibility.
Caleb's "ooey gooey" family interactions are beyond sucky. In this and in The Hollow, her second of this predictable trilogy, she copies and pastes dialogs word for word. The formula remains the same as always: One chick, Quinn Black in this book, is a blustering, hoggish, crass, self absorbed dead bore. The wimpy, lamer chick is Layla. The savvy, brainy one is Cybil. Caleb is the sturdy, stable guy. Fox the brainy and moody jerk, and Gage the cynical, savvy, worldly traveler. She changes only their names, back stories and locale. If you read one of her trilogies you have read them all.
Even the increasingly vulgar sex scenes and dialogs are copy and paste. The "demon" in this story is implausible. I love metaphysical stuff, but this nonsense is just too inane to swallow and borders on bad Sci Fi. I have been a fan for many years. Not any more.
Excellent Collection July 8, 2008
I love this series thus far. Blood Brothers and The Hollow, in my opinion are one of the best series that I have read, I am an avid Nora Roberts fan and I own everything she has ever written, I love it and cannot wait for the third to be released in November
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