The Seekers (The Kent Family Chronicles, Vol 3)

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Summary: The saga continues.
Review: Book 3 of The Kent Family Chronicles covers the period following the War of Independence.Jared Kent,son of Abraham Kent, the main protagonist of Book 2 "The Rebel",is left in Boston in the care of his uncle,Gilbert Kent, younger half-brother of Abraham and Gilbert's wife Harriet, a mean minded woman who resents Gilbert's affection for his nephew.Jared's only friend is his cousin Amanda who is several years his junior.After Gilbert's death, Harriet marries a fortune hunting gambler who not only gambles away all the family's money but who make improper advances to the 10 year old Amanda.Jared is forced to protect Amanda and wrongly believes that he has killed a man in self defence.On the same night Harriet is killed under the wheels of a carriage forcing Jared and Amanda to run away and begin an incredible journey-by foot-across country to Tennessee.They fall victim to a bogus preacher who kidnaps Amanda and sells her to an Indian tribe.Jared at once begins the near impossible task of finding and rescuing her.

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Summary: Weaker entry
Review: Have thoroughly enjoyed the Kent series. However, this was the least enjoyable of the series. You need to read it for continunity; however, it does drag at spots. Abraham is not one of Jakes' better characters.

Rating:
Summary: Weaker entry
Review: Have thoroughly enjoyed the Kent series. However, this was the least enjoyable of the series. You need to read it for continunity; however, it does drag at spots. Abraham is not one of Jakes' better characters.

Rating:
Summary: Not as engrossing as the others
Review: This is book Three in the Kent Family series and a necessary one, if not thoroughly engrossing one, of the series. It continues the story of the Kent Family and fills in necessary holes that you won't get from reading Book Four of the series.

This one is about Abraham who falls in love with his step-sister, daughter of Peggy McLean and Justin Fletcher, from book two, and of their son, Jared, and his cousin, Amanda, daughter of Abraham's brother, Gilead and his mean-minded wife, Harriet. Abraham and Elizabeth tried to make their fortune in the Wild West which was Ohio then ~~ only to lose everything when an Indian killed Elizabeth. The story then focuses on Jared, who was dumped on his uncle's household and made to feel unwelcomed and unloved. This book also describes how the Kent Family lost their printing business that Philip Kent had worked so hard to build up from the ashes of Revolutionary War.

It is a short book ~~ necessary and entertaining in some spots ~~ but filled with historical antedotes in between the War of 1812 and before the Mexican war. This one is about Jared. Book Four is about Amanda.

I don't regret reading this one at all ~~ it's interesting enough.

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