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The Pagan Stone (Sign of Seven) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
Category: Book
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 165011
Format: Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 9
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 1423337840
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781423337843
ASIN: 1423337840
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
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Product Description
Years ago, after their blood brother ritual, Gage, Fox, and Caleb emerged from the woods, each with a piece of bloodstone. Now, it will become their weapon in the final fight against the demon they awakened. Winner take all...
Shared nightmares, visions of blood and fire, and random violence begin to plague the longtime friends and Quinn, Layla, and Cybil, the women bound to them by fate. None of them can ignore the fact that, this year, the demon has grown stronger feeding off of the terror it creates. But now, the three pieces of the bloodstone have been fused back together. If only they could figure out how to use it.
A gambling man like Gage has no trouble betting on his crew to find a way. And though he and Cybil share the gift of seeing the future, that s all they share. Were they to take their flirtation to the next level, it would be on their own terms, not because fate decreed it. But Gage knows that a woman like Cybil with her brains and strength and devastating beauty can only bring him luck. Good or bad has yet to be determined and could mean the difference between absolute destruction or an end to the nightmare for Hawkins Hollow.
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 Occasionally unintentionally funny; and boring in many places *****Spoiler alert***** November 26, 2008
Bibliophylax (New York, NY)
21 out of 28 found this review helpful
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.
 Oh, Dear . . . December 5, 2008
Patricia Day (Pasadena, CA USA)
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
I think it might be a good idea for Ms. Roberts to stay the hell away from trilogies for a while and either take a long vacation or stick to her stand-alone novels. In my humble opinion, her best trilogy was the Sisters Island trilogy, and they've been going downhill ever since.
I didn't think much of the first book in this series, but the characters were okay. The second book was more of a stretch, and I finished it because I'd paid for it.
In this last book, however, the characters were unlikable and the romance was so forced as to be ludicrous. In my daughter's pithy phrase, it blew harder than a Force Five hurricane.
Nope. I really think that a moratorium on these trilogies is in order.
Severely Disappointed November 28, 2008
V. Eubanks
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
Well, Nora, here we are again. I took you off of my "automatic buy" list when you wrote "Angels Fall". I just didn't like that book at all. I began checking out your books from the library. Then, you went and wrote the Circle Trilogy and, low and behold, you were back on my automatic buy list. In fact, after reading "Morrigan's Cross", I pre-ordered "Dance of the Gods" and "Valley of Silence" right away. "Valley of Silence" to me was one of the best books you had ever written.
So, of course, I was so excited when I saw that you were coming out with The Sign of Seven trilogy. But, frankly, it was awful. "Blood Brothers" felt forced and my favorite character was the dog. Seriously. "The Hollow" was just that. Hollow. Lacking in character development, just like the first. However, I was really excited for "The Pagan Stone". After all, Gage and Cybil seemed to me from the first book to have the most potential for a great love story. They both were afraid of commitment and had the most baggage.
It was obvious to me when I bought they book that Gage and Cybil would hook up. But, what I can't believe is how obvious you made it to them. There was no anticipation. Just endless conversations between the two of them of how they were not going to fall in love. Boring. That's not plot building. That's having your characters talk about the plot so that you don't have to develop it.
This book is awful. It is the first Nora Roberts book I skipped pages in. I actually had to skip the third conversation that these two characters had about how they're not going to end up together. Did she just copy and paste to write each chapter?
Sorry, Nora. You're back on the library waiting list.
 My highlight of the series and the perfect end of the Sign of Seven trilogy. November 25, 2008
norarobertsismyqueen (Germany)
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
Warning - spoiler
"The Pagan Stone", book 3 in the "Sign of Seven" - trilogy by the sensational Nora Roberts is my personal highlight in the series, there could not have been a better way to finish what was started in "Blood Brothers" and continued in "The Hollow". The book is a really intense , sometimes sweet, sometimes sexy and an always thrilling read.
In "The Pagan Stone" the six friends (Cal, Fox, Gage, Quinn, Layla and Cybil) are preparing for the finale fight to destroy the evil that Gage, Cal and Fox set free unintentionally 21 years ago. For both sides, the good and the evil, it's a now or never situation and the six know that if they don't succeed this time there will be no next chance. But there is hope because for the first time the three men are completed by three very special ladys that share their psychic abilities and are their partners in every way.
Gage and Cybil are the ones the book concetrates on (but it's not a book about them, the other four of the team (family) are not only the supporting crew which is great).
Gage a gambler and a loner most of the times and the outspoken, intelligent Cybil clash from the first moment they meet. From not liking each other they develope mutual respect and end up in an intimate relationship.
They both are wondering about where their relationship is going to lead to especially because Cal & Quinn and Fox & Layla fell in love which each other.
The one point Gage and Cybil agree is that they don't want a serious relationship. Especially Gage is terrified at the thought of loving another person besides his two blood brothers and their families. He learned the hard way that there is not always a happy end. When his mother and unborn sister died (he was just a boy) and his father turned to alcohol and started to make his life a living hell he stoped believing in fairy tales and love.
But the complications in their personal life have to stand back when it comes to fighting the demon who is more viscious than ever and especially hates Gage and Cybil. When Cybil is brutalized by the demon in a very evil way she and Gage have to fight hard to continue their way and not give too many thoughts to hate and revenge.
By the time their relationship turns from "you" and "me" to "we" and the three pairs get some thrilling news tragedy strikes again and one of the team has to be willing to sacrifice himself to finally destroy the demon and save the life of the rest of his family.
"The Pagan Stone" is all I hoped for and more. I couldn't wait to finish it, it's that good. There are funny moments, lovly and some sad ones (yes, I had to cry some) and all these combined make this book just perfect.
So please get yourself a copy and enjoy this fabulous end of the "Sign of Seven" - trilogy.
S.M.
Mumbo Jumbo -hocuspocus and more. . . . November 28, 2008
Leigh Davis
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have no one to blame but myself. I thought the first book was horrible and I didn't buy the second. However, my library had the second book, and I thought it was okay, and when Tuesday came around, with nothing to read, I thought why not. Unfortunately there are a bunch of why nots.
First, I found the book to be very slow. I picked it up, put it down, tried to read it again, and finally settled in for a re-read of another book. Thursday, I had four hours, and I attempted it again. After reading the first 100 pages, I realized why I was having such a difficult time. This book is not really about relationships, which is what Nora does so well, it is about every type of magic there is. And the characters have to analyze each minute piece of interaction with the demon and hunt down any folklore, fairytale, horror story that mentions fighting evil. And we get to read about it, and read about it, and read about it. Quoting 'Tears should matter. . . Other character " I wonder if tears are literal. . . or symbolic. . On vampires: If we consider vampyric . . . it not impossible the undead. . .doesn't have legitimate roots in this demon.
While I wouldn't say that reading science fiction is my first love, I do read authors like Sharon Shinn, and Lois McMasters Bujold. So, I do have some experience in world building, and suspending belief in unorthodox situations. I just couldn't do it in this series. The demon couldn't seem to make up its mind if it was a mischievious boy, or a monster. The six couldn't make up their mind if they feared the demon or wanted to sock it the stomach. Better yet, sing to it taunting it with Bang, Bang, knock on the door baby (Love Shack).
The relationship building between the two main characters seem to hinge on both of them needing to travel, and have variety in their lives and their repugnance of the simple life plus warning each other that just because the others hooked up, doesn't mean that it going to happen to them.
One of the minor characters dies, and the group as a whole decides that it better to tarnish his reputation then one of the surviving individuals. It is a minor thing compare to the whole book, but it bothered me that this individual was finally turning his life around, and the group denied him the right to be remembered as the person he was now vs. the person that he had been.
Reading some of the five star reviews, it is difficult to believe that we read the same book. Maybe it just a difference of when we started
reading Nora's books. I long for books like the Dream Trilogy or the Quinn brothers.
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