Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1) | Nora Roberts

Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1) | Nora Roberts | Creepy, interesting, fun

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	Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1) Nora Roberts Jove, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 125 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

ROBERTS WONDERFUL FICTION

HER BOOKS ARE ALWAYS SUCH GOOD READING AND THIS IS NO EXCEPTION. KEPT ME INTERESTED TO THE LAST WORD. WAITING FOR HER NEXT ONE. ALSO HER NEXT J.D. ROBB BOOK.

Creepy, interesting, fun

Nora Roberts returns to her trilogies, and returns from the strange streak of vampirism and fantasy she displayed in her last series, The Circle trilogy.

Three friends, making a blood brothers vow on their shared tenth birthday, unleash an evil that has been held in check for three hundred years. Suddenly the town goes mad for seven days and seven night...and just as suddenly it stops. But the evil returns every seven years for seven days and nights, and Cal, Fox, and Gage are the only ones who sees the demon, the only ones who can try to stop the madness. Now the men are thirty-one and the evil is stronger than ever. But in to The Hallow strolls first Quinn, then Layla, and Cybil, who are compelled to the town for their own reasons. The six unite to try to destroy the evil before it can destroy the town. And, of course, pair up with each other.

Roberts returns to fine form with Blood Brothers, presenting her readers with solid characters, good background, and a very creepy plot. If her last trilogy felt like Anne Rice, this harkens in all the best ways Stephen King - in fact, one of her characters references his classic 'Salem's Lot to describe the panic-inducing vision of a demon child floating outside her second-floor window. The action speeds through the novel, and more than one scene will leave a nighttime reader with the urge to glance over their shoulder on the look out for that demon child. The plot and characters feel more fully fleshed out than in her last trilogy - with the exception of Layla, but as the second of the series (The Hollow, due out in May 2008) is her story, one can expect better characterization to come, and the third of the trilogy (The Pagan Stone, due December 2008) promises a pairing of Cybil and Gage, which already seems like the most interesting prospect of the three couples. The only complaint a regular reader of Roberts' trilogies may have is that the form is formulaic and very familiar; however, the story and the characters are intriguing enough to keep them hanging on.

Blood Brothers is a solid book, combining the love story with good supernatural suspense without once feeling over-the-top or completely unreal; in fact, the creepiness factor feels almost like a tamer Stephen King at his best. Nora Roberts has given her readers a captivating first novel of the Sign of Seven trilogy.

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Not half bad

I'm not at all into the whole paranormal thing but I bought this book for two reasons-1, Nora Roberts wrote it and 2, because she wrote the unputdownable, wonderful stories of Cam, Ethan, Phillip and Seth. I was hoping to find the same connection between the "Blood Brothers", Cal, Fox and Gage. I did. In fact, NR went one better. Cal is a little bit Ethan, Fox is a little bit Phillip and Gage is definitely a whole lot Cam. And still, I wouldn't have bought the book but for the little synopsis 'the boys who have become men-and the women who love them'. I'm much more about guys and girls hooking up than ghosts and boogy-men. While I wasn't terribly engrossed by the plot, just reading about Cal and Quinn made it a worthwhile read. There was plenty of Fox and Gage, too. In fact, I can't wait to read the story of the "scruffy, gorgeous and dangerous looking" Gage Turner.

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Good but not great

I will start out by saying that I am a die-hard Nora Roberts fan and have read literally everthing she's ever written. That being said, this first book of her newest trilogy didn't do a whole lot for me. I know that the first book of a trilogy always sets the stage for what is to come, but this book was fairly boring and didn't leave me anxiously awaiting the next installment like most of her other trilogies have done. I will, of course, read the rest of the series with the hope that it will get more exciting and involving as we go along.

I agree with the poster that wrote that she didn't have a very good sense of these characters yet and that they seemed underdeveloped. I got the same feeling. And frankly, this book just didn't have that page-turning intensity that she usually creates for me. I can usually finish one of her books in a day or two because I don't want to put it down but this book didn't do that for me like, say the Circle Trilogy did.

As I said, I'll continue reading and hope it gets better because, let's face it, even a not-so-great book by Nora is better than most anything else out there these days.

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