Abel makes his way to New York and is eventually refused a bank loan by Kaneâ€™s board of directors. Baron Abel Rosnovski, aka Wladek Koskiewicz, is born to poverty and nightmarish violence in war-torn Poland. William Lowell Kane is heir to a banking empire in New York City. Kane and Abel are both born on the same day in 1906. The story is a familial-character driven tale, spanning decades. At minimum, read Kane & Abel, it is super â€“ an extremely popular 1980s book, made into a mini-series in 1985. The first book in this series, Kane & Abel was released in 1980, the last by 1982. I’m still in for book 3 and I will read it next while the story is still fresh in my mind but I really hope that the high-level almost point-form format does not continue in the next instalment! Consequently, I felt more annoyed by Florentyna rise to the top – it was more like: here we go again, “everything she does is winner” instead of feeling happy for her that she achieved a goal and feeling for her through her struggles to get there. With almost no dialogue, we only sporadically heard the character’s voice and therefore never really built an emotional connection to anyone. I was never able to warm up to the writing style. It’s as if the author wrote up the entire outline of the story with all the plot points in place, next he started to randomly pepper it with a little bit of dialogue here and there, he developed certain scenes in more detail, then gave up and decided to submit that as the finished product. I felt it was logical that this part of the story was told in bold strokes because it was a recap, but I didn’t realise that this segment was going to take up nearly half the book and that the almost point-form style of the writing would continue throughout. The first part of the book covered what we already knew from Book 1 - Kane & Abel, but from the POV of Able’s daughter Florentyna. I felt like I was reading an outline instead of a novel. I don’t mean the storyline or the plot, that was good enough, but I mean the way it was written.

The prodigal daughter by jeffrey archer