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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780451212832
ISBN number: 0451212835
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: September 07, 2004
Publishing house: Signet
Release Date: September 07, 2004
Sale Popularity Level: 141976
Studio: Signet
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The eight-volume epic of the Kent family continues as a new generation struggles to survive within a nation rife with conflict. Amanda Kent was a woman of great courage, but nothing prepared her for the massacre she witnessed at the Alamo. Now she's returned to Boston to rebuild the Kent legacy.
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This book starts out with Amanda Kent in the battle of the Alamo. After the battle she is taken prisoner by a Mexican soldier, named Cordoba, who treats her well. Cordoba dies in a battle and Amanda is freed. She stays in Texas long enough to have Cordoba's son, Louis Kent. She then moves to California to try and make money so that she can head back to Boston. After about thirteen years she has aquired enough money from the gold rush to head beack east so that she can buy back her grandfather's publishing company, Kent & Son's.
Once out east Amanda finds out the her grandfather was a founder in a company that has slowly been accumulating money that she now owns. She is now able to make her mark in New York and Boston. Amanda finally restores Kent & Son's to the Kent family after she kills Stovall, the owner, and buys it from them. She dies only seventeen days after Stovall dies.
This book is full of historical figures and events. It also shows the courageous and determined Amanda get around the obstacles in her life.
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The fourth in the Kent family cronicles is so far the worst in the series. I found the 3rd book to be the best so far so ic ould not wait to read the Furies and waht a dissapoinment. The book is so boring and it drags on and on. It's not like the other book's with the war's and the great stories this book is boring. I found the charactors really boring and have no life in this book. I hope the subsequent one is good.
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So far in the Kent Family series, Amanda is my favorite character. She has more guts than most of the men in her family do and she's inspirational. I also like how Jakes ties in different people from the historical stand-point with her story.
This novel opens with Amanda trapped inside the Alamo with the Texans during that fateful battle with the Mexicans. Captured as a Mexican war-of-prisoner, Amanda finds love and comfort with the man who rescued her from a certain death. When he died, she was eventually free to go back to Texas. And this is just the beginning of a long adventure. After Amanda gives birth to a son, Louis, she travels to California. And throughout her years, Amanda's main obssession was how to regain the control of Kent and Sons from Hamilton Stovall.
This is a fast-paced novel ~~ perhaps more so than the others ~~ and somehow it feels like it's seeped in more historical details than the others. Jake covers the Alamo, the Gold Rush, the expanding business in the Northeast of the USA, Texas becoming a state, slavery and abolition. Also in this novel, Amanda becomes reunited with Jared, her cousin, for a very brief time. This is also an introduction of Jared's son, Jephtha Kent, who is a minister in Virgina, also uneasy with the Slavery question. He soon becomes ostracized by his family and friends for his beliefs.
If you're expecting a historical novel with details on our ancestors' lifestyle back in the 1800s, this novel is definitely one of the better ones! Pick this one up too ~~ you won't regret it!
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The line of the Kent famiy is followed through with Amanda Kent as the main player. Amanda, daughter of Gilbert Kent was kidnapped and held as a wife by an Indian brave until his death when she was released.She then married a fur trapper who also died,leaving her to m ake her living as a bar keeper until she was caught up in the Battle of the Alamo and again taken prisoner as the woman of a Mexican Officer.She was treated well by him and gave birth to his son,Louis. By chance, she met,very briefly, with her cousin Jared who had been searching for her for years and inherited, on behalf of his son Jephtha,the control of his share of a gold mine. Determined to restore the printing firm of Kent and Sons in Boston to the family control, she and Louis set up house in Boston where she battles for ownership of the firm from the evil Hamilton Stovall,the man who swindled her family of their fortune and business.
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Arguably the best of the Kent Family Chronicles, having as its heroine the strong-willed Amanda Kent, whose personality and strength of character reverberate off every page. How she makes it from the Alamo to the California gold rush to the throes of abolitionist New York strains belief, but ultimately the wild ride is worth the trip. Compelling characters help the journey: Bart McGill, Isaiah Hope, Jephtha Kent, Michael Boyle, Luiz Cordoba. And there is the usual liberal sprinkling of historical figures like Santa Ana. Not necessarily a page-turner, but a strong depiction of key events in American history, very indicative of the hardship and conflicts of the time. Better than "The Bastard."
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