- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Jove Books (27 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0515143804
- ISBN-13: 978-0515143805
- Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 14.9 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
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"'a truly great read' - Bella"
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In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred-year-old curse.Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. Quinn is a well known investigative journalist, and despite Cal's protests, she insists on delving into the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it's not only the town Cal has to protect, but also his heart.
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INSIDE THE PRETTY KITCHEN OF THE PRETTY house on Pleasant Avenue, Caleb Hawkins struggled not to squirm as his mother packed her version of campout provisions. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Nora Roberts is a legend of trilogies, and BLOOD BROTHERS is the start of another winning romantic paranormal trilogy. Cal, Fox, and Gage were only ten when they unleashed the demonic power trapped beneath the Pagan Stone. Every seven years, for seven days, a horrible and deadly power is unleashed in Hawkins Hollow. People commit horrible acts, and then can't remember doing any of it.
For these three men, it's been twenty-one years since whatever entity resided in that glade was let loose. Now, it's up to them to stop it before it's too late. When Quinn comes to town, looking to research these strange events and turn them into a book, her presence seems to make the power of the three men even stronger -- but it also makes the "entity" stronger, as well. When Layla and Cybil are also drawn to Hawkins Hollow, the three men and three women band together to stop the horror that grips this town every seven years.
As I said, I really loved this book, and I can't wait for the next two books in the series. This is another winner!!! I would also like to recommend reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece--The Fates--if you haven't yet...that is!
For these three men, it's been twenty-one years since whatever entity resided in that glade was let loose. Now, it's up to them to stop it before it's too late. When Quinn comes to town, looking to research these strange events and turn them into a book, her presence seems to make the power of the three men even stronger -- but it also makes the "entity" stronger, as well. When Layla and Cybil are also drawn to Hawkins Hollow, the three men and three women band together to stop the horror that grips this town every seven years.
As I said, I really loved this book, and I can't wait for the next two books in the series. This is another winner!!! I would also like to recommend reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece--The Fates--if you haven't yet...that is!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I initially picked this up thinking that it would be a bit like `Divine Evil' another NR book I read recently that was a touch more on the `dark side.' Yes and no. More `no' actually; this is good because to be honest I'm a bit of a wimp when scary stuff abounds! The other book revolved a lot more around Satanism and evil and was a bit warped in places- not like any other NR book I'd read before, whereas this book focuses more on legends in a small town and the repercussions of what can happen when something wicked is accidentally unleashed. This first book in `The Sign of Seven' trilogy is also a little on the light side romance-wise, concentrating more on plot build up and developments for the second and third books. I'm hoping for more romance in future parts, but that remains to be seen.
Caleb (Cal) Hawkins was only ten years old when he and his two best friends accidentally unleashed something unspeakable in the woods of Hawkins Hollow twenty-one years ago. Since then, every seven years on the seventh day of the seventh month (see--- now the name of the trilogy makes sense!!), crazy things happen in the town and the collective madness has given the otherwise sleepy place a notorious reputation of being possessed. Cal has been haunted by the events since childhood, but with the arrival of sexy author Quinn Black, has hopes that this year, some of the mystery can be put to bed. It's a shock when apparent outside Quinn however, is as affected by the happenings in the town as much as Cal and his friends are. What is her connection to the town and can the madness be stopped this time, once and for all?
A good suspense novel but if I'm honest I was hoping for more- the romantic chemistry was a bit flat and matter of fact here as well. I think it's because I've been on a bit of a NR kick lately and re-reading some of her earlier stuff has whetted my appetite for her more `classic' writing style rather than her slightly newer books which don't tend to be as well developed when it comes to plot lines in my opinion and do echo some storylines from other novels. Needless to say, the characters are fairly well-written and this trilogy has a lot of potential to get better as the books progress. I really liked Cal, and Quinn too was feisty and extremely confident; I do like that not all of NR's female characters are shrinking violets. The other secondary characters took more of a back-seat in this story (Fox and Gage) so it will be interesting to read parts two and three that focus on them and their romantic interests and see what NR has done with their back-stories.
Caleb (Cal) Hawkins was only ten years old when he and his two best friends accidentally unleashed something unspeakable in the woods of Hawkins Hollow twenty-one years ago. Since then, every seven years on the seventh day of the seventh month (see--- now the name of the trilogy makes sense!!), crazy things happen in the town and the collective madness has given the otherwise sleepy place a notorious reputation of being possessed. Cal has been haunted by the events since childhood, but with the arrival of sexy author Quinn Black, has hopes that this year, some of the mystery can be put to bed. It's a shock when apparent outside Quinn however, is as affected by the happenings in the town as much as Cal and his friends are. What is her connection to the town and can the madness be stopped this time, once and for all?
A good suspense novel but if I'm honest I was hoping for more- the romantic chemistry was a bit flat and matter of fact here as well. I think it's because I've been on a bit of a NR kick lately and re-reading some of her earlier stuff has whetted my appetite for her more `classic' writing style rather than her slightly newer books which don't tend to be as well developed when it comes to plot lines in my opinion and do echo some storylines from other novels. Needless to say, the characters are fairly well-written and this trilogy has a lot of potential to get better as the books progress. I really liked Cal, and Quinn too was feisty and extremely confident; I do like that not all of NR's female characters are shrinking violets. The other secondary characters took more of a back-seat in this story (Fox and Gage) so it will be interesting to read parts two and three that focus on them and their romantic interests and see what NR has done with their back-stories.
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I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.
The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).
It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.
However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.
Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.
Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.
However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.
Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.
It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.
The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).
It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.
However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.
Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.
Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.
However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.
Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.
It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.
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enjoyable paranormal romance
The paranormal romance genre is new to me as is the author Nora Roberts. However, I was very pleasantly surprised. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Pinlet
Fantastic
All I can say is all three of these books are fantastic. Buy them, read them and enjoy them!
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I found this book completely by chance, hadn't heard of Nora Roberts at that point and now I am a major fan, Blood Brothers had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish and... Read more
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ok book nora roberts blood brothers
this book was good, but its on the same theme as her other series three sisters island trilogy, which I enjoyed more
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Published on 3 Feb 2010 by Cr Gibbs
Hate is too strong a word - more like indifferent
I was given the trilogy and am sorry that I invested hours of my life reading it. I am not too sure how Nora Roberts keeps peddling out this watery kind of tripe. Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2009 by N. Howell
Brilliant!!!!!!
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.
Published on 30 April 2008 by D. Middlehurst
i want the rest now!!!
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2008 by N. Fail
Certainly not one of her better efforts
I found this book very formulaic, obviously a scene setter for the two books to come, and as such it was interesting and I wanted to discover more about the characters... Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2008 by M. Johnson
Amazing reading
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. Read more
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. Read more
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