The Pagan Stone (Sign of Seven, Book 3)
by Nora Roberts
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Book Reviews of The Pagan Stone (Sign of Seven, Book 3)
Book Review: A Very Nice Wrap-Up
Summary: 5 Stars
The Pagan Stone (Book Three in the Sign of Seven trilogy), by Nora Roberts
What Happens: Gage and Cybil fight destiny and their attraction for each other. But time is running out, and they soon realize that surrendering to their feelings may be the key to everything.
Why I Picked It Up: I enjoyed the last two books, and wanted to see how my new friends made out with Big Evil.
What I Liked: Everything came together beautifully in this final installment. I love not being let down.
What I Didn't: Gage and Cybil, fighting fate for absolutely no good reason. And Cybil's naivete, despite her street-wise intelligence--just pee on the stick, already!
What Was Different: Gage was a really interesting character study, let's just put it that way.
Overall: An awesome end to an awesome series. Five Cheez-Its out of five.
Jacquelyn Sylvan
Author, Surviving Serendipity
www.sylvaniamania.com
Book Review: Occasionally unintentionally funny; and boring in many places *****Spoiler alert*****
Summary: 2 Stars
I never thought I would say this about one of Nora Roberts's books. But I found myself skipping several pages at a time. There is just too much conversation between the 6 main characters. A lot of the talk is on the nature of the relationships between them. If you read her Circle trilogy, there is probably what amounts to a page towards the end of Book 3, where Cian muses upon the destiny of the 6 of them. I would say a good chunk of Pagan Stone is devoted to that particular exercise.
Some portions of the book also reminded me of the comedies from the B/W era, where every cliched situation the makers could possibly think of would have been employed. All three of the women turning up pregnant and that too supposedly after conceiving on the same night?! Adding Gage's blood to the water supply to innoculate the town?
I was actually looking forward to Gage's story since he reminded me of my other favorite NR characters, Cian and Roarke. I am very disappointed.
Book Review: Grammar?
Summary: 3 Stars
First let me say that this is my wife's book. I picked it up and read roughly 2.5 pages. The pages in question are 34-36. I read a lot of books, mainly SciFi/Fantasy and some Romance (Thanks to my Wife). I have to say, I had to struggle just to get through this small sampling of her work. The grammar is horrid (I'm not claiming to be better, but starting sentences with 'And'?) and the work choice is exceedingly odd. Not odd in a good way, odd in a way that makes one believe she either could not find a suitable word or she was trying too hard. It's as if she is trying to hit a home run with every sentence she writes. It just doesn't feel natural, it feels forced. I'm sure someone will flame me for this, but before you do think on this. I have never written a review on Amazon in 10 years. Never. Not once. However, I felt compelled to write one in this case.
I'll give it 5 stars as I hear the plot line is intriguing. Minus 2 stars for the unreadability.
Book Review: At last - The End
Summary: 2 Stars
**spoiler warning**
I really wanted to find out how what happened to the Hollow and how the demon was demolished so I stuck with it and finished. AS I have said in my reviews of the other 2 , I am not usually a reader of romance so my jaded view of that genre colors my reviews.
This third of the trilogy is essentially the story of the most troubled of the "Blood Brothers," Gage. Gage is an interesting character and some of the scenes with his parents (or impersonations of them) are moving. That Gage becomes involved with the sassy Cybil is predictable.
I had been waiting for another generation since book 2, when that was hinted at but went nowhere, so I was not surprised when all 3 gals are pregnant. What becomes of the babies remains unknown as it probably should be.
Carefully edited, this trilogy would have been a good creepy suspenseful story contained in one book. Three made it just too drawn out.
Book Review: I'm joining the minority here and saying 5 stars
Summary: 5 Stars
From the very beginning of Blood Brothers where Gage and Cybil meet on a deserted, dark road, I was looking forward to reading their story. I didn't read the books because I'm a fan of demons and ghosts and all that sort of stuff, I read them for the relationship potential between the characters and was not disappointed. I don't think the series went out with a bang, like the build up in all three lead us to believe, but I didn't really care. I wanted to see how the story of Gage and Cybil played out and the same with Fox and Layla, and Quinn and Cal. While I'll admit the raining blood and screaming demons got kind of tiresome, and the fact that they all got pregnant in book 3, I still think they're worth a read. While one reviewer didn't care for the constant 'we're not going to fall in love' talks between Cybil and Gage, I found them rather entertaining. My favorite Nora Roberts series is still, however, Brothers Quinn series.