A Dangerous Fortune
by Ken Follett
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Book Reviews of A Dangerous Fortune
Book Review: Where are the proofreaders?
Summary: 3 Stars
I read this on my Kindle and was dismayed and annoyed with all the typos. Not only were there misspellings, there were also punctuation errors and there was one place where a whole sentence was dropped. Obviously, humans are no longer proofreading and computers are not accurate enough for me. With that said, the novel held my attention, and I liked the historical references. But the characters were flat, with their characteristics/flaws/background told over and over to the point of ad nauseum. The general way the book was going to develop was obvious, but how it was going to get there was the journey that kept me turning the pages.Book Review: Follett at His Best!
Summary: 5 Stars
The action never stops in this book. Anyone who loved Robert Grave's "I Claudius" will love this book. Both tales involve a mother (Livy in I Claudius) hungry for power for their sons. They stop at nothing to ruin those that stand in their way. In both novels we have the person who played by the rules to only get knocked down to the depths but ultimately triumph in the end.This book gives a great feel for London in the late 1800's. Follett's descriptions are so detailed that we can virtually smell the London fog. The character development is also amazing. A great read overall!
Book Review: It is dangerously interesting!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished reading Ken Follett's "A Dangerous Fortune" and I wish I was not! The book was so interesting it was hard to put down. The characters were drawn so realistically and the action was so intense that I could not stop turning page after page...
The book is extremely entertaining. I liked it even more than "The Pillars of the Earth" which was my favorite book so far. I highly recommend "A Dangerous Fortune" to anyone who is looking for a page turning suspense that makes the reader think of every possible way the highly intense actions could turn out at the end.
Book Review: light, but very entertaining historical fiction
Summary: 5 Stars
I have both read this novel and listened to the audio-book. I loved both. This is not a highbrow work of historical fiction. It's a page-turner that feels like a soap opera. It's an engaging one, though, that is consistently fun from start to end. It centers around a family of bankers in 19th century London, starting with the death of a school boy, and takes is through a generation of family and financial intrigue, and romance. You love the heroes and hate the villains. Very little gray, here. It felt like a bit of a guilty pleasure to me, but it was a ton of fun.Book Review: Another good novel by Ken Follett
Summary: 5 Stars
Like Ken Follett's other novels, he has researched a particular part of society at a particular point in history. This novel is set primarily in the British banking industry in the late 19th century. It is a well developed story about greed and the struggle for social position without regard to the cost. One woman's lust for power and position gradually destroys her family. The story has a good sized share of hedonism, social decay of the upper class, anti-semitism when it suits someones purpose, and all the features of back-stabbing social climbing.