Marie Caliendo does her best with Book 2 of a trilogy about three boys who have inadvertently freed a demon trapped in a pagan stone. They're condemned to suffer its torments every seven years. Now they're grown and have met up with three women who've appeared in Hawkins Hollow. Their couplings and quarrels are well dramatized, if not well written, and some scenes, like the trip to the bridal shop, are affecting. The demon speaks in sepulchral tones, readings from an old journal echo, and minor characters are made memorable, but these plusses are diminished by the overblown prose and muddled plot. One should care what happens to characters as challenged as these. Listeners who do should hope that a different narrator reads Book 3. J.B.G. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2008]
Trade Ed. • Brilliance Audio • 2008
CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3775-1 $36.95 • Nine CDs
MP3-CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3777-5 $24.95 • One MP3-CDs
DD ISBN multiple sources
Library Ed. • Brilliance Audio • 2008
CS ISBN 978-1-4233-3774-4 $92.25 • Nine cassettes
CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3776-8 $97.25 • Nine CDs
MP3-CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3778-2 $39.25 • One MP3-CDs
DD ISBN multiple sources
Trade Ed. • Brilliance Audio • 2008
CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3775-1 $36.95 • Nine CDs
MP3-CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3777-5 $24.95 • One MP3-CDs
DD ISBN multiple sources
Library Ed. • Brilliance Audio • 2008
CS ISBN 978-1-4233-3774-4 $92.25 • Nine cassettes
CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3776-8 $97.25 • Nine CDs
MP3-CD ISBN 978-1-4233-3778-2 $39.25 • One MP3-CDs
DD ISBN multiple sources
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