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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
4⭐
The characters are lovable, especially the dog. The story is building. The ending leaves me wanting more.
While this opening novel in The Sign of Seven trilogy is heavy on the story building with some smut sprinkled in, it served it's purpose in leaving the reader ready to pick up book two. We spend book one learning about the tiny town of Hawkins Hollows and the three men who are destined to ward off the evil that shows it's face every 7 years.
4⭐
The characters are lovable, especially the dog. The story is building. The ending leaves me wanting more.
While this opening novel in The Sign of Seven trilogy is heavy on the story building with some smut sprinkled in, it served it's purpose in leaving the reader ready to pick up book two. We spend book one learning about the tiny town of Hawkins Hollows and the three men who are destined to ward off the evil that shows it's face every 7 years.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence, Violence
Minor: Child abuse, Rape, Blood
Nora Roberts has an uncanny ability to weave romance, mystery and the supernatural without losing any of the threads. Each develops rationally and pulls you into the story.
She creates vivid settings so that you feel you could have seen the places she describes and which creates a backdrop of normalcy, firmly grounding the story.
The characters are appealing, with men that have a strong sense of duty and loyalty (which makes a female heart flutter). The women are not simpering wimps and play an equal role in the story. Each of the six has vulnerabilities and frailties that make them easy to relate to.
In Blood Brothers, Cal and Quinn are the central characters however the others aren't pushed aside as can sometimes happen, so we begin to build relationships with them also.
The story is quite chilling, a creeping evil with the ability to exaggerate the feelings we most often keep hidden - suspicion, despair, anger, and a group who have no real idea how to prevent it being unleashed on the town again but are desperate to defend themselves and their loved ones.
There are no conclusions in this book so you wil be eager to read the next.
She creates vivid settings so that you feel you could have seen the places she describes and which creates a backdrop of normalcy, firmly grounding the story.
The characters are appealing, with men that have a strong sense of duty and loyalty (which makes a female heart flutter). The women are not simpering wimps and play an equal role in the story. Each of the six has vulnerabilities and frailties that make them easy to relate to.
In Blood Brothers, Cal and Quinn are the central characters however the others aren't pushed aside as can sometimes happen, so we begin to build relationships with them also.
The story is quite chilling, a creeping evil with the ability to exaggerate the feelings we most often keep hidden - suspicion, despair, anger, and a group who have no real idea how to prevent it being unleashed on the town again but are desperate to defend themselves and their loved ones.
There are no conclusions in this book so you wil be eager to read the next.
Review possibly to come.
Read this one for research into one of my own stories that I've been working on for years, just so to make sure they weren't similar. It was an enjoyable read, but in typical Nora Roberts fashion I was left disappointed with the ending. I usually am, so I'm okay with this fact.
Read this one for research into one of my own stories that I've been working on for years, just so to make sure they weren't similar. It was an enjoyable read, but in typical Nora Roberts fashion I was left disappointed with the ending. I usually am, so I'm okay with this fact.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Rape, Suicide, Blood
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was never fully pulled into this story. I think the plot was intriguing enough for a while, but it never went anywhere. I also did not like the characters that much. They all seemed like cardboard cutouts. I do not like to define a lead female character by her eating/dieting habits. I felt frustrated reading it. And nobody seemed to have any fun quirks.
I do not think clear word pictures were made when supernatural events happened, so it was hard to figure out who or what was happening where and when. I also did not feel an easy fluidity between points of view.
In the end, I found myself wanting to read something else and not finish this one. The mysterious stuff felt randomly tossed into the storyline. The dialogue was kinda goofy. And by the mid-point of the book, I did not feel that any part of the plot was progressing.
I do not think clear word pictures were made when supernatural events happened, so it was hard to figure out who or what was happening where and when. I also did not feel an easy fluidity between points of view.
In the end, I found myself wanting to read something else and not finish this one. The mysterious stuff felt randomly tossed into the storyline. The dialogue was kinda goofy. And by the mid-point of the book, I did not feel that any part of the plot was progressing.
I am a bit of a sucker for a series book. Love, angst, the paranormal...just enough to keep me intrigued. I purchased this trilogy at a book sale last year and figured it would make good summer reading.
Now I feel like I need to read [b:The Hollow|2195309|The Hollow (Sign of Seven, #2)|Nora Roberts|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348219279s/2195309.jpg|2201046] which I've already read, but years ago, before moving on to [b:The Pagan Stone|3094593|The Pagan Stone (Sign of Seven, #3)|Nora Roberts|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348229686s/3094593.jpg|2501542], which I haven't read yet. It struck me reading this, how similar the three heroes are to the brothers in NR's The Inn at Boonsboro series. Gage and Ryder are practically identical in terms of personality. Dumbass and Lump are long lost twins. Beckett and Cal are also eerily similar. I guess after decades of writing and dozens of books, it's hard to create original characters. Thankfully the stories are vastly different.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I started this book on 04/18/2009. I finished this book on 04/25/2009.
This is the kind of Nora Roberts book that I like. I don't mind a little romance in a book but I want there to be a story line other then the romance. This book had me from the start and I can't wait to read the second and third books in the series. The theme of the books kind of reminds me of her other books Born In Series. But I really liked Cal and Quinn and all the characters. A wonderful and quick read. I would have gave it 3 and a half stars if the half stars were allowed.
This is the kind of Nora Roberts book that I like. I don't mind a little romance in a book but I want there to be a story line other then the romance. This book had me from the start and I can't wait to read the second and third books in the series. The theme of the books kind of reminds me of her other books Born In Series. But I really liked Cal and Quinn and all the characters. A wonderful and quick read. I would have gave it 3 and a half stars if the half stars were allowed.