The Sins of The Father - Jeffrey Archer

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• Overview:

     New York. 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and sentenced, Jelks disappears, and the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity - something that he has sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he loves.

     Meanwhile, the young woman in question travels to new York, leaving their son behind in England, having decided she'll do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry - unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on the mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year.

• Review:

     With this being the second book of the Clifton Chronicles, I couldn't wait to carry off where the first book left me off at. That was a major cliffhanger that got me impatient to carry on with the novel. To my surprise, this book has put be through major ups and down, so much stress and cursing!! That was amazing, for a book to get you to experience different feelings and to feel like you're actually part of the entire book that was special! 

     Now, when Harry was arrested in New York, it felt like the world has been falling apart, for him and for me. No matter how much he tried to say that he was not Tom Bradshaw but indeed a Harry Clifton, no one really believed him. The time plot for the novel was sometime around the 1940s and as I am reading this in 2016, the timely effect the book gave was astonishing. You get to experience the simplicity of life and the sacrifices where there was no technology as there is nowadays, only telegrams and letters. Very vintage-y at some point and suitable. I admired the fact that once Harry was sent to jail for a crime he had not committed and decided to sacrifice his own life for the sake of Emma having a grand one of her own was simply what true love is all about. When I say love, it's not what everyone thinks it is, it's more like being human and wishing and doing what you can for the happiness of the other party although it breaks you apart, yet there's nothing you can do about. It's fate. The best part of his time in prison is him taking things seriously and giving up to reality and deciding to do his time and more importantly have a goal while being there, to be a librarian and write a diary about his time there. I would love to read "The Diary of a convict". It's a diary I would do anything to read actually, but sadly it's fictional only. The plot twist all of a sudden with Harry where he was given a chance to join the military and get to change his name back to being Harry Clifton dropped my jaw, I mean whaaaat?!

     Then there's Emma on her journey across the oceans for hope of finding Harry. I have to admit to yet again admiring all the effort she put into finding him, I mean she didn't easily give up and to mention it she had to leave her baby back in England.  Words can not express how happy I am with the fatal end of Hugo, that sounds a bit odd but boy he deserved it!!

     As for the reunion, I must say I was a bit disappointed because I was expecting a little more of it, it felt like Harry has just gotten back from a month's trip and it felt very normal though I wanted it to be more emotional dramatic maybe? But not to dramatic. It was nice as of it. I shall not forget to rant about Emma's emphasis on her British accent while she was in New York, I loved that part very much it felt like she was forcing into showing the world where she was coming from and to prove Harry's innocence as well, that deserved a huge thumbs up!

     With the third book already in stock with me I have to say that the cliff hanger at the end of this book got me again cliff-hanged. I mean I was rushing through reading the remaining pages hoping to know who would eventually inherit it all Harry or Giles after that 13 hour session and then I'm left there in thirst!!

     I'm so glad I've driven my way into this series because it's that one series you do not regret spending the time on and ofcourse all the emotions on!