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The story is gripping and hard to stop listening too. The audio book was delivered in excellent condition and very timely for the best price by far.
Great mix of edge of your seat excitment and romance. I have the entire trilogy and had it done in under 5 days. After I read it my neighbor did and she couldn't stop either.
The entire book built up to their trip to the Pagan Stone, which happened in the final chapter, but the action there felt rushed and left me wanting more details. This second book in the series has Cal, Fox, and Gage again paired with Quinn, Layla, and Cybil to take on the evil Twisse in an attempt to save the town of Hawkins Hollow from chaos and destruction during the week of July 7th.The romantic focus was on Layla and Fox, which worked very well. Like in the first book, I found the ending to be sort of a let down.
This book is about the love that forms between Fox and Layla, while the six continue to prepare for the upcoming battle with the Big Evil that plagues the small Maryland town of Hawkins Hollow.Layla came to Hawkins Hollow seemingly on a whim, leaving her job and apartment in New York behind to head for a place she had never been. From the moment Layla set foot in Hawkins Hollow, she has had visions and dreams. In "Blood Brothers," the new circle of six is introduced, and Cal and Quinn were paired off. Besides, with what's about to come in July, she fears there soon may not even be a Hawkins Hollow in which to build a life. Nora Roberts' latest trilogy hits its stride the second time out.
Oddly, though, the silliness of it all made the book more palatable to me.Though my least favorite, and the least original, of all Nora Roberts' trilogies, as other readers have said, Nora on a bad day is better than most other writers on a good one. To quote the cover blurb, "only friendship and family, promise and passion can stop it." That's an incredibly silly concept from any spiritual standpoint, and sounds more like platitudes you'd read in a teen magazine. The six friends have a battle on their hands against the demon who would destroy the picturesque town, and his antics are escalating. They've got such a powerful thing going, it defies all religions and beliefs. Not when they feel such a connection. It amuses me, though, that these six characters are so sure of the power they possess amongst themselves that they feel capable of taking on a "demon from hell" without any supernatural assistance, whether from God and angels, or even from witchcraft. Layla winds up leaving her job in New York and taking on the temporary position of Fox's office manager, but it doesn't seem as if their relationship will remain professional. The six friends find that to beat him at his own game, they must risk performing a dark ritual of their own that could destroy them all.While generally not offended by books of this type, I didn't realize until now how much Sunday school stuck with me, because it really bugs me that God does not seem to exist to a single character in this book, yet they continually use God and Jesus as epithets in their speech.
While the first in this series felt a lot like a retread of books we've read before, this story seems to have a little more individuality going for it. As time approaches the Seven, the week in July when all hell breaks loose, the demon seems to be gaining more power than ever before, and his tricks become even more dangerous. This book was better than the first in this series, and I'm hoping that the third will be a further improvement and round it out nicely in the end. Almost immediately upon her arrival, strange things begin to happen, and as a result Layla makes friends with Quinn, who had come to town to write about the bizarre happenings every seven years. Fox is ready for Layla to leave everything behind and build a life with him, but Layla isn't so sure she wants him making all her decisions for her.
So much fun and romance with fighting a demon and saving a town in the mix. I love this series.
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