Blood Brothers: Number 1 in series (Sign of Seven Trilogy, #1)

by Nora Roberts

Caleb Hawkins can never forget what happened in the woods twenty-one years ago. Every seven years, his home town succumbs to a terrible curse. Terrible, unspeakable crimes take place - a collective madness that has given Hawkins Hollow the reputation of a village possessed.

It's this modern-day legend that draws reporter Quinn Black to the town. Caleb - a descendent of the town founders - has agreed to talk to her. But the seventh year has come around once more, and both Caleb and Quinn have already seen the danger signs.

Bound by fate, bound by passion, Quinn and Caleb must fight the coming darkness together...

• ISBN10: 0748110127
• ISBN13: 9780748110124
• Publish Date: 6 November 2008 (first published 22 November 2007)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Piatkus Books
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[mitabird]

I really wanted to like Blood Brothers, but I didn't. I did not like Quinn at all. She was too perfect and very pushy. Caleb was like a cardboard cut-out character; there was no substance to him at all, IMO. The plot started off okay, but started to get a little ridiculous as the story progressed. I can say that I will not be reading the next two in this series.
2.5 stars

[wyvernfriend]

With the rise of paranormal romance Nora Roberts seems to be carving a comfortable niche with this idea. Many of her earlier works had tinges of the supernatural but she seems to have broken into this area and made it her own. I have to admit to being a bit apprehensive after the circle trilogy (which wasn't one of my favourites by her) but this series has made me happier.

The story centers around three men, when they were 10 they released something while camping and celebrating their tenth birthday on the seventh day of the seventh month. Every seven years since, things have gone badly wrong in the town, and they have used the fact that they seem to be immune to it, and that they seem to have supernatural help, to combat it.

It's 21 years later. They are about to embark on another year of madness and three women are attracted to it. One is a journalist, Quinn Black, she's interested in the strange and wants to investigate. Caleb is attracted to her as well and wants to keep her safe. The evil that lurks is trying this time to escape Hawkins Hollow, and defeat it's only enemies.

I'm sure that the following two books will involve the other two guys and the other girls, following the Light trilogy pattern, but I found it fun, if a little drawn out occasionally. Still I'm looking forward to book 2.