The Hollow

Sign of Seven, Book 2

De: Nora Roberts

Narrado por: Marie Caliendo

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the thrilling trilogy of a town plagued by evil - and the three men and three women brought together by fate to fight it.

For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom - ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon The Pagan Stone…

Now, as the dreaded seventh month looms before them, the men can feel the storm brewing. Already they are plagued by visions of death and destruction. But this year, they are better prepared, joined in their battle by three women who have come to The Hollow. Layla, Quinn, and Cybil are somehow connected to the demon, just as the men are connected to the force that trapped it.

Since that day at The Pagan Stone, town lawyer Fox has been able to see into others’ minds, a talent he shares with Layla. He must earn her trust, because their link will help fight the darkness that threatens to engulf the town. But Layla is having trouble coming to terms with her newfound ability - and this intimate connection to Fox. She knows that once she opens her mind, she’ll have no defenses against the desire that threatens to consume them both…

Don't miss the other books in the Sign of Seven Trilogy

Blood Brothers

The Pagan Stone

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The story just gets better

Love this book and series. Nora Roberts really spins a world into existence. You can't wait for the next line.

2nd in trilogy

Wonderful second read. can't wait for the 3rd book. will definately recommend to friends and family.

Awesome

I love all of Noras’s books. Keep them coming to audiobooks please. The narrator is awesome too than you Marie

Good book but…

The story is good but the narrator was very annoying. I did several eye rolls at the Layla voice. She sounds stuck up, prissy and childish, to the point it was struggle to listen to sometimes. Also I think a male narrator would have suited the book better.

One of a kind!! Great Series

I loved 1 & 2 on to 3rd book now! Can't wait to start reading more books by Nora Roberts! She is able to have love, action, drama, and more all together in 1 story!! She is amazing.

Huge improvement from book 1

Sigh … narrator captured the right tone and has consistent character portrayal. Enjoyed this story that built to the final book.

Sign of Seven Trilogy: The Hollow Character review

Having called this trilogy "the best female characterization ever written," it behooves me to continue with my review of the MCs in Book 2: The Hollow. Book 2 is Layla and Fox’s love story--in the style of Nora Roberts where all of the characters in the series are growing along with the story line via the main focus on the next couple at hand.

Layla is my least favorite character in the series. She’s rebellious, stubborn, often wrong, and slow to realize it. That makes her the one who wants to belong, never quite does, and doesn't understand why character. She has ideas and acts in ways that make life more challenging than it ever has to be. Of course I don’t like her very much because she’s the character that’s most like me. She’s more defeatist than I ever was, and she’s more inflexible since I was always overly flexible and forgiving.

Unlike Layla, I was never fearful and she lets fear stop her at every step. I had a no fear philosophy long before it became a saying and I was a huge risk-taker—both of which made my life much harder, again recognizable in Layla. She is steeped in fears, a ton of them, but she remains a risk-taker. Her reasoning is very much along the lines as mine is, which I can only describe as always bucking the system, always fighting family, lovers, and friends, even the decision makers at work (though finesse is a real thing). Like Layla, I was detailed oriented and saw the entire field at the same time, but also like Layla, there were interventions (plural) by friends because of stubbornness and decision-making, and working for yourself too often. Therefore, Layla is too recognizable and makes her a more uncomfortable read for me, but she grows into a character I end up appreciating by the end of the trilogy and by the end of this second book.

Fox is the perfect match for Layla. He is foxy about it too, although he’s a lot more imperfect at being foxy than Cal would be if Layla were his type. Fox is a male character that is iconic to an earlier era: the successful, confident carefree hippie lawyer with a surprisingly strong side. Fox not only comes through for Layla and the team, but he wins a few personal battles with finesse and preparedness, and being foxy. One is a battle I would have considered impossible for Fox to win, which sort of makes him the “manliest,” though not the alpha, of all three male characters (this isn’t his thing—he wasn’t raised that way). I ended up loving Fox’s story as it plays out through the trilogy. Some of it made me angry, some of it scared me to death, but in the end he was the guy who won big time, personally.

That's my character review of book 2. I don't think it's necessary to state that I highly recommend this trilogy and this second book, especially if you want to focus on personal victories over greater odds. This is another thirty-ish book and can move much younger and all the way out. In this book, sex is frustrating but eventual. General warning: Rape and destruction are issues with this particular daemon. The reader would want to consider this within the mindset of fighting personal daemons, the opposite of today's friendly and lovable daemons. This daemon(s) represents character development over entertainment.

Loved the book narrator was hard for me

I really enjoy this series and find it a light fun listen but the narrator was really hard for me. I can usually look past it but I couldn’t differentiate Q’s voice from L’s and they got rid of L’s NY accent which would have been ok but it was a hard listen and I had to take breaks to get through the narrator. Great story but I might need to read the last one instead of listening. They also don’t have u hear the narrators voice in the preview so that made it harder.

enjoyed it!

going to start part 3. I love the Triologies. I find Nora Roberts books very relaxing and sometimes thrilling.

Narrator

I love Nora’s books. It saddens me when a trilogy is not read by the same person. If the stories weren’t so good, I would be tempted to not listen to the last one in the series since it is a third narrator.