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| The Hollow (Sign of Seven) (Sign of Seven) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nora Roberts
Creator: Marie Caliendo
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 303477
Format: Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Library
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1423337786
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781423337782
ASIN: 1423337786
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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 Ugh. May 15, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The first book in this trilogy was just OK. This one was a chore. I wish the final book was out so I could just read it to find out what happens and get the darn thing over with.
Nora who? May 16, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
If The Hollow were the 1st NR book I ever read it would have been the last.... no character depth, no sustainable plot and obvious conclusion all rendered this book a large yawn. I'm a disapointed fan who has read EVERY SINGLE BOOK NR/JDR has ever written!
 Roberts has jumped the shark... July 16, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This formulaic book reruns Roberts' usual 6 trilogy characters. This time around these people are supposedly educated and sophisticated, but they are ALL rendered, instead, as mentally defective suffering from ecolalia (repeating the same words over and over and over) in EVERY sentence or paragraph. In one short paragraph she used the same wording 4 times as if the character was talking to a moron, and was him/herself also a moron. Roberts essays enough banal Psychology 101 purportedly as profound "insights" within each of her one dimensional characters that she renders the story implausible and ridiculous. Only the character Cybil has the ability to encompass self awareness at any level of intellectual integration. The other 5 characters are pretenders.
The metaphysical elements border upon REALLY BAD Sci-Fi. Fox and Layla, having known each other for 3 weeks, somehow "psychically" find diaries in a stone wall of an old farm outbuilding that no one else, including the "blood brothers", had discovered in over 300 years. We are told to believe that the diaries were penned by Ann, an uneducated peasant woman, who was recounting her tribulations with Dent and the demon in 1652. This "magickal" event strained ALL credibility. To add to this silliness, there was no difference between the truncated, quasi-contemporary speech that Nora uses in her characters' slang filled dialogs, to suggest how "hip" they are, from the overall style contained in the ancient diaries when read by Quinn, et al. Say what?
Layla is the most despicable female character that Roberts has ever created out of her female character reruns. Instead of being merely the usual annoying, clingy, hyperfeminine character, Layla is asinine. The author has always focused upon sexual innuendo and lurid sex scenes with a heavy handed approach in her novels. This time she used a sledgehammer to pound the topic into the ground with her characters Fox and Layla. He hounds her until she surrenders to the unrelenting pressure of his creepy sexual demands. This repellant harassment also transpires while Layla is on the job working for Fox as his office manager. What a contemptible message to women who are subjected to this in the workplace every day.
Worst of all was the hike to the Pagan Stone where Nora falls into the name and label dropping pattern that she has used in her last dozen or more books. "They launched with Nirvana...Smells like Teen Spirit...Hello!...he tossed in Smashing Pumpkins, a little Springsteen...swung into Pearl Jam, sweetened it up with Sheryl Crow". If NOTHING else that went before could shred plausibility into confetti, this DREK did the job. The ending was rushed and senseless. On a positive note: I loved the dog Lump. He has more brains than the characters in this farce. Watch and see, book 3 will have Gage and Cybil hooking up and settling down; Gage reconciling with his loser father; the demon being "destroyed" even though spirit beings are immortal; and enough vulgar sex scenes to satisfy even the most jaded reader.
I was once a fan of her Irish trilogies, but had stopped reading her stuff after seeing the ensuing ones churned out using the same 6 characters ad nauseum and the trashy elements escalate. I had hoped that Nora had created something fresh and new in this trilogy. Alas, it was not to be. Nora Roberts has jumped the shark of credibility, plausability and decency.
Not bad May 7, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was a good read, great continuance of the Hollow series. I can't wait for Gage's book in December!
I would have rated the book 5 stars except for the following issues: the romance between Layla and Fox just wasn't all that exciting. It was lukewarm. It took until the middle of the book before they even got together. No steaminess, no excitement. But that might have also been partly because of the figurate descriptions of the love scenes, not sure. I really couldn't figure what they were doing due to the figurative descriptions and then it's all over. Is this the new trend?
I read Nora Robert's books primarily for the romance, but in this case, the whole Hawkin's Hollow curse story and all the evil events that ensued was the primary focus. I really don't care about Ann's diary which consisted of nothing helpful, just a bunch of fluff and nonsense. So why would we want to read it? The author could have just summed it up in a sentence.
The other thing that bothered me was the weirdness of Fox donating sperm to his sister's girlfriend so they could have a baby. So that would make him the father and the uncle? How weird is that. And it kind of bugged me that he would become a father to someone else's baby first before his own with Layla. Maybe it's just me, but that whole situation was just too strange to be taken seriously.
Tsk Tsk Tsk...Booooring! May 15, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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!
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