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

by Nora Roberts

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.

• ISBN10: 0749908483
• ISBN13: 9780749908485
• Publish Date: 22 November 2007
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 9 April 2009
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Piatkus Books
• Format: Hardcover
• 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.