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Title	:	The Furies (Kent Family Chronicles #4)
Author	:	John Jakes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	September 7th 2004 by Signet (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

The Furies (Kent Family Chronicles #4)

John Jakes

Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 4927 Users | 101 Reviews

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This was a darker book than the previous one, but featured Amanda, possibly my favorite character in the entire series. We follow her from the Alamo to NYC where things are heating up for the Civil War. As usual, Jakes does a great job showing both sides of the conflicts from a personal view. He drops a lot of historical information in well connected threads throughout, too.

Handling the feelings on both sides of the argument that would become the Civil War was particularly masterful, especially since the South's side was seemingly indefensible. It wasn't from their point, though. Their entrenched economy, fears, & opinions were well represented. The division among the North was also well shown. Immigrants couldn't find enough work to feed their families & the city was bursting as more flowed in. Any competition for the few jobs couldn't be born & that included freed slaves, yet it was obvious that blacks weren't subhuman, simply raised & treated that way - all this while those of the North treated factory workers & servants in much the same fashion.

Jakes makes the point in a particularly poignant way when hours go by before (view spoiler)[ Amanda casts the deciding vote as to whether to provide medical care for workers injured in an accident. She also has to fight to get free schooling & 'limited' hours for the child-workers. Which made me think back to the gin-soaked 8 & 10 year olds that Phillipe met in the first book of the story in London. (hide spoiler)]

The scariest part was reading about how the positions in the question of states' rights & slavery polarized society. Neither side could see the others point of view, so no compromise was possible. Slavery was obviously no longer viable, yet its proponents kept trying to expand it. Moderates were forced into taking sides by the actions of the fanatics on both sides which ripped families & communities apart.

We're seeing similar tensions now as Orson Scott Card also points out so well in Empire. The gov't is in its 8th day of shutdown due to a few fanatics refusal to compromise & a few others refusal to do what is right since it threatens their position - not their ability to feed their family, just their continued power. They lack a single issue to rally behind & tear the nation apart the way the slavery issue did, but the rhetoric is remarkably similar in its uncompromising divisiveness.

Overall, I didn't care for the composition of this book as much as the rest. It jumps through time fairly quickly & also back & forth between the normal perspective & that of a diary of a completely different character. I found that jarring, probably more so because I didn't care for the character, although he was perfect for the point Jakes was trying to make. Scenes with Louis seemed an afterthought, tacked on to provide continuity with future books. I doubt they were, but he didn't ... have the depth or ring true... (not really sure) the way other characters did, even more minor ones. Something about that character was off, anyway.

Still, I'm giving the book 4 stars because it is so timely, yet it is 30 years old & written about events over 150 years ago. I'd say that's quite an accomplishment!

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Original Title:	The Furies (Kent Family Chronicles 4)
ISBN:	0451212835 (ISBN13: 9780451212832)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Kent Family Chronicles #4
Characters:	Amanda Kent

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This was a darker book than the previous one, but featured Amanda, possibly my favorite character in the entire series. We follow her from the Alamo to NYC where things are heating up for the Civil War. As usual, Jakes does a great job showing both sides of the conflicts from a personal view. He drops a lot of historical information in well connected threads throughout, too.Handling the feelings on both sides of the argument that would become the Civil War was particularly masterful, especially



I enjoyed the continuation of the Kent family saga with the historical backdrop of the Alamo, the Gold Rush and the lead-up to the Civil War. Sometimes youd think we havent learned a thing from history, as theres still hate and bigotry everywhere you look. Even the poor Irish havent won independence from Britain yet 🙄.

After reading Book III of the Kent Family Chronicles, I was feeling a bit drained and somewhat dreading beginning this fourth installment. The previous book felt extremely dark and had themes that were difficult to handle. I was pleasantly surprised by this story which follows the life of Amanda Kent.Amanda is an amazingly strong female character within the Kent Family who has undergone many dark struggles including living through rape, being sold off as a wife, losing a husband she loved, and

John Jakes once again brings History to life in this Historical Soap-Opera! I was originally going to take a short break from the series after reading The Seekers, because I don't want to finish it too quickly, but after the way The Seekers ended, I had to read the next book, because the ending of The Seekers leaves us in a cliffhanger! The Furies takes place 20 something years after the events in The Seekers, the story this time approximately in the 1830 period, revolves around Amanda Kent, now

I read books 2-7 of this series in the last weeks of Feb 2013. While I liked the continuation of the family name through each generation, I could have done without every single important female of the Kent family being raped, sometimes repeatedly. They no sooner got power and money than they lost it, and family members ran the gamut from good to brilliant to corrupt to sleazy to fierce to insane to bloodthirsty. Lots of historical info, also, which made the story more real and interesting. But I

Read the first 3 books in this series... and this one is a Did Not Finish for me. Last book left off when the main character of this book, Amanda, was about 11 years old (or 12 or 13, I'm not sure). The usual horrific rape scene in that last book... and now here we are, Amanda is grown, and AT THE ALAMO. Okay, I've read a lot of these books and can usually deal with the fact that the main characters are always at pivotal historical events, but Amanda grown at AT THE ALAMO... I'm sorry, that's