The Prodigal Daughter (Kane and Abel Book 2)

The tense and sincere situations were very realistic. That main characters were very believable. Another Jeffrey Archer winner!!! Loved it and recommend it without reserve.

I enjoyed the story. I like stories where a woman beats the odds and comes out successful. The story moves right along until she started campaigning for president and that's when i had to start scanning the words. It dragged out too long.

This is another one of Jeffrey Archer's well written books. He keeps you captivated throughout his books with twist and turns in his plots. Highly recommend reading .But first read Kane and Abel. When I'm done with this one i will be reading " Shall We Tell the President " ,the 3rd in this series.

Jeffrey Archer has been one of the world's best storytellers for over 25 years and all of his books have been page-turners for me. This is one of his early stories and a good one. In part it is a sequel to his wordwide bestseller Kane and Abel but it is mainly about the lives of the children of Abel Rosnovski and William Kane.At birth Abel gives his daughter, Florentyna, a Teddy Bear named "President" after US President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy". Florentyna's first word is not "Daddy" or "Mummy" but "Prusident" - a sign of things to come. At age 11 she makes a pact with her father for him to finance her Presidential campaign if she wins the first major primary for the Democratic Party.Abel Rosnovski gives Florentyna every support in her education, including employing a wonderful English Governess who guides her through her early days to give her the strength, personality and skills to become a very successful person both commercially and politically.The bad blood between Abel Rosnovski and the powerful banker William Kane continues and escalates when Kane's son Richard meets Florentyna.The latter part of the book covers Florentyna's commercial successes and eventual entry into US politics. Archer displays a detailed knowledge of the US political system. While it is an older book (1982) it is not dated and much of the political action is a reminder of more recent US political events.As well as being a best selling author, Archer lived an eventful life as a UK Parliamentarian and Conservative Party Chairman and was made a life peer. His career was suspended when he was convicted and imprisoned for perjury. Despite all of these traumas Archer has never lost his great story telling skills.His latest book - Sins of the Father in the Clifton Chronicles series - still has his magic touch and the ending will keep you in suspense again until he has written the next book in the series.

Although I enjoyed reading this book, about 50% of it was redundant, & that was disappointing. I missed Archer’s concise writing style & steady momentum in his novels.

Florentyna was an exceptional girl. Born of immigrant Polish parents, one of whom become a powerful and wealthy businessman, she was tutored well, learned well, and trained well. Until she threw it all away to marry the son of her father's most bitter enemy.Richard Kane had also defied his father to marry his love, and the two were cast off without a cent into the world. However, not only do they live on love, but they forge their own business empire in the process. If Kane and Abel were rivals, but successes; only to see their greatest dream dashed at the hands of the other, Richard and Florentyna show what their father's might have achieved by working together.Indeed, together they build the empire of both their father's dreams. Both of their fathers recanted their hatred at the end, and they build together. But eventually success at business bores Florentyna, and she goes into politics.Florentyna is a success in many ways in politics. Congress, then the Senate... and the White House?Indeed, I don't know if the novel makes or breaks itself with the dirty tricks played at the end. Florentyna made her biggest mistake when she didn't outright reject one offer. Character wise, I think that is the biggest weakness of the novel. Florentyna wasn't that stupid or naive. Would it have hurt to have had her cave in if the man had outright lied (and still trapped her), and her serve her term as vice-president with no illusions about him? PLus, I have to wonder if she, faced with the end of her career, wouldn't have conceeded defeat - and then dragged down certain people as well?

Archer has tried to make a stand-alone novel that also serves as a sequel to the original Kane and Abel, an epic novel which we read 30 years ago or so. We listened to Kane and Abel again this year on a long driving trip, and then bought this sequel and listened to it also. The Prodigal Daughter takes the reader (listener) back through a huge amount of set-up that readers familiar with Kane and Abel really don't need, but which is inserted for the benefit of people who are stepping into the series at this second book. That makes it a little tedious at the outset. But the really tedious parts come during descriptions of the heroine's political campaigns, which read like a political procedural or maybe a Wikipedia report for chapter after chapter. This book lacks the personal attachment we experienced with Kane and Abel, as well as its sweeping perspective and building collision of characters, and substitutes instead a lightweight chronicle of the second generation. If we had had anything better to do on the drive, we probably would have abandoned this one at the halfway point.

Can hardly wait to start the third book!! Have really enjoyed this trilogy!! Don't let it get away from you!!

El autor es excelente. otro bestseller.

Si ya leíste Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter lo recomiendo mucho. Es muy fácil de leer y la historia te atrapa.

El libro es una pieza excelente de lectura que te atrapa con cada capítulo. Lo recomiendo a todo el mundo después de kane adn Abel

Ich lese sehr gern Bücher von Jeffrey Archer und dieses hat auch interessant begonnen, nur gegen Ende war es so langweilig, dass ich mehrere Monate brauchte um es fertig zu lesen (bzw. zu überfliegen). Normalerweise verschlinge ich seine Bücher. The prodigal daughter zählt nicht so zu seinen Meisterwerken würde ich behaupten.Die Bestellung und Zulieferung hat super funktionert.

Ich war von "Kane&Abel" so begeistert, dass ich sofort Band 2 lesen wollte. Die erste Hälfte hat mir auch sehr gut gefallen und der Perspektiven Wechsel der Familiengeschichte hat mir auch sehr gut gefallen. Leider wurde es dann aber sehr politisch und zu viel Wahlkampf lastig, was meine Freude am Buch getrübt hat.