Sign of Seven trilogy - Nora Roberts

Her books are like brain candy for me. They go so fast and yet I can read them over and over and over again. And I do. I just finished reading book 2 of the Sign of Seven trilogy. I'm glad she's writing more and more about magick and mystical things as it parallels some of my own interests.

Blood Brothers introduces us to three friends who accidentally set free a demon within their town. Every seven years from the day released it, it terrorizes their town for a week. However, this the time when the demon has to be battled back for good or it will destroy them all. For each of the three friends, there are strong women to back them up and help them defeat evil. Each are connected to the demon through blood as the men are connected to the witch who stopped it nearly 450 years earlier.

The Hollow is a continuation. They've learned a bit more about the women, fallen in love/lust, and defended the town against several manifestations. They are also growing in their power together and need to fuse the weapon that the men's ancestor used to stop the demon after it was split.

I think what I love about Nora Roberts is that her female characters aren't weak. They are strong, forthright individuals who aren't afraid of taking on a challenge no matter how overwhelming. Well, they are afraid. They'd be insane not to be with some of the things she's set against her heroines. (Think ghosts, demons, and magick along with serial killers and arsonists.) But they do it anyway because some things need to be stopped.


(Originally posted August 8, 2008)