{"id":191,"date":"2007-06-22T07:57:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T06:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/kane-and-abel-jeffrey-archer\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T07:57:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T06:57:45","slug":"kane-and-abel-jeffrey-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/kane-and-abel-jeffrey-archer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fiction, 8\/10 &#8211; June 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/kaneAndAbel.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nI had heard of Jeffrey Archer from various political scandals in the news and I was curious to read one of his books. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kane_and_Abel_%28novel%29\">Kane and Abel<\/a> considerably raised my opinion of him because I really enjoyed it (apart from the monstrous death of Wladeks sister in the castles prison which was so disturbing that it nearly made me put the book down for good).\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I enjoyed the drive and determination that was shared by both characters. I also liked how the book spanned 60 years rather than most books I have read that only focus on a small chapter or event in the characters lives. It&#8217;s nice reading about how people grow up and change as they mature.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that some people are on Abel&#8217;s side and others on Kane&#8217;s. I desperately wanted them to be friends but I think I&#8217;d choose Kane&#8217;s side if pushed.<\/p>\n<p>Any book that you can&#8217;t put out of you mind in between reading sessions and for a few days after you finish is a good investment of time by my judgement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction, 8\/10 &#8211; June 2007 I had heard of Jeffrey Archer from various political scandals in the news and I was curious to read one of his books. Kane and Abel considerably raised my opinion of him because I really enjoyed it (apart from the monstrous death of Wladeks sister in the castles prison which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}