Product Description

A Mass Market Paperback Original

The New York Times bestselling author of Blood Brothers continues the thrilling trilogy of a town plagued by evil—and the three men and three women brought together by fate to fight it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1876 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 336 pages

From Booklist
Every seven years for seven days the citizens of Hawkins Hollow go crazy. It all began 21 years earlier when three friends—Fox O’Dell, Caleb Hawkins, and Gage Turner—spilled their own blood on the Pagan Stone and released the demon once known as Lazarus Twisse. Ever since then, the three have worked together to limit the damage Twisse causes during his week long reign of terror. Recently, three women—Layla Darnell, Quinn, and Cybil Kinski—have joined their battle against Twisse, but it is going to take everything the six have if they are ever going to eliminate once and for all the evil that threatens Hawkins Hollow. After introducing her new paranormal-tinged series with Blood Brothers (2007)—the story of Cal and Quinn—Roberts cleverly continues her deliciously chilling Sign of Seven trilogy with a riveting story that focuses on Fox and Layla, both of whose gift for reading other people’s minds plays a key role in the six’s demon-defeating plans. --John Charles

About the Author
Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than 150 novels, including Blue Smoke, High Noon, and Angels Fall, winner of the Quill Award as Best Novel of 2006. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. Roberts has more than 294 million copies of her books in print.

From AudioFile
Marie Caliendo does her best with Book 2 of a trilogy about three boys who have inadvertently freed a demon trapped in a pagan stone. They're condemned to suffer its torments every seven years. Now they're grown and have met up with three women who've appeared in Hawkins Hollow. Their couplings and quarrels are well dramatized, if not well written, and some scenes, like the trip to the bridal shop, are affecting. The demon speaks in sepulchral tones, readings from an old journal echo, and minor characters are made memorable, but these plusses are diminished by the overblown prose and muddled plot. One should care what happens to characters as challenged as these. Listeners who do should hope that a different narrator reads Book 3. J.B.G. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

Customer Reviews

The Hollow
This second book picks up the story two weeks later. Fox tries to help Layla hone her senses, so they can present a united front, and be as useful as Cal, Quinn, Sybil, and Gage is with their gifts. Since they sense things in the present, he knows how important it is for them to be at full strength when the demon next makes an appearance. Fox felt fortunate for the two-week lull in activity, but knew that had come to an end when he and Layla were attacked by a swarm of crows in the middle of Main Street. Layla got to see first hand the healing powers Fox possessed when his pecking wounds healed almost instantly.

As the group tries to figure out more about the puzzles from the past, the demon escalates the attacks. Instead of just focusing on one person, they are all in jeopardy at any given time. They realize that his strength is nothing like anything that they have ever encountered in the past, but that makes sense now that they know this cycle of seven is the final showdown.

The creepiness just gets better with each book. I enjoyed this second installment in the trilogy, and don't like having to wait until the end of the year for the conclusion with Gage and Sybil though. This book was Layla and Fox's story, but again as in the last book, all characters had a strong presence, which really adds a strong element.

A bit more comical than scary
This book was at least better than the first book, which isn't saying much. My favorite line is Gage's, "Are we going to talk it (evil demon boy) to death?" Well, apparently so, because, mostly, all our six happy friends do is sit and talk . . . and talk . . . and talk. Then there's a demon attack, and then they talk some more. The three women all have demon blood in them, and not a one of them turns evil. They discuss how it's a possibility, but does it happen? Of course not. The only interesting story will likely be Gage's in the third book. The other five characters are all nearly interchangable and I never really could make myself care about any of them. The dialog tends to be corny, unbelievable and hard to follow--who's talking, incomplete sentences. And I'm sorry, but there's not much plot--Evil demon boy does nasty stuff and guy #2 and girl #2 get together because it's their book, so they have to. I'll read the third book, but then I'm done. No more Nora paranormal romance stories for me.

Tsk Tsk Tsk...Booooring!
Again, Nora dear, you missed! Blood Brothers held my attention but this one...I only purchased it because I am a huge fan but really! I found this book boooooring. I still don't know what the hell this demon is about...no pun. I mean all the characters did was gab, gab, gab..and I certainly skimmed over much of the dialogue. The sex scenes were ok. Otherwise, don't rush out for it. If you need a time waster this it. Otherwise, I'm anticipating the other new Nora Roberts book...The Tribute. I hope you don't disappoint!