Saturday, October 11, 2008

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers is the first in the latest trilogy by Nora Roberts (look for a review of the second, The Hollows coming soon, and the third, The Pagan Stone sometime in December).


So, it starts out telling you about the killing of a man in the 1600's. Then it moves on to 1987 (Wow...the 80's...), and telling you about a really bad thing that happened when three 10 year old boys met in the woods.



So, there's this big, bad, evil demon out to get everyone, and for a week every July, every seven years, everyone in their town goes absolutely violently nuts.



So the three boys have to take care of the town.



Well, this time (the third time) is coming, and three women come to town. (Who's not surprised?)


Book 1 is about Caleb and Quinn. He's the responsible boy-scout, who gets visions into the past. She's writes books about haunted places, and she's come to Hawkin's Hollow to tell the story of what happens.


She never expects to be part of the equation on how to beat the big-bad-evil, though. And she doesn't plan on falling in love, either.


Who doesn't love the curve balls that get thrown into the lives of characters?


Anyway--what I like about this one. Cal's a really good guy. All the time. Gotta appreciate that.



What I didn't like-- So incredibly easy to see what's happening. All the major plot points are transparent. Not to mention, Quinn is brash, even for a NR character. She needs to take a chill pill.


These books could be so much stronger! I hope the last one is better.





1 comment:

Jandy said...

You're going to lend these to me, right? Along with Charles Martin...