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Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven Trilogy 1)

Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Piatkus
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

15 reviews
Sales Rank: 1752

Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.2

ISBN: 0749938439
EAN: 9780749938437
ASIN: 0749938439

Publication Date: December 6, 2007
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Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant!!!!!! April 30, 2008
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.

5 out of 5 stars

i want the rest now!!! March 31, 2008
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. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

2 out of 5 stars

Certainly not one of her better efforts March 23, 2008
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 depicted.However, I found the ending such an anticlimax it was disappointing- the main characters go into the the woods to the Pagan Stone and precious little happens- certainly not on a par with the endings of the "Three Sisters" or the "Key" trilogies which are a similar genre.

5 out of 5 stars

Amazing reading February 12, 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

5 out of 5 stars

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil. February 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

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.