Those votes had been the result of a national campaign engineered by her father’s formidable election machine in conjunction with the powerful black religious and political organization, the Renaissance Mission Congress. Even she had found it interesting that the media had made such a fuss over the exit polls showing that her father was the first president to be significantly helped by a massive African-American turnout. The inauguration of Edward Carson, former senior senator from the great state of Nebraska, was celebration enough. She was just three days shy of her twentieth birthday, but with her father being inaugurated President of the United States today, she’d scarcely had time to think about what she might get in the way of presents, let alone contemplate what she was going to do to celebrate.įor the moment, it was all about her father. I would strongly suggest avoiding this novel.Carl Alves – author of The Invocation Read moreĪlli Carson sat in the back of the armor-plated limo, sandwiched between Sam and Nina, her Secret Service detail. I can’t say there was much that I liked here. There was just nothing plausible, and some of the events were down right laughable. Almost everything that happened made me shake my head. But of all the things that were poorly done, the novel’s biggest shortcoming was the lack of believability. The whole part about the President trying to wipe out the American secularist movement was just weak. The novel had overly long flashbacks that took away from the flow of the novel. Needless to say, characterization was not a strong suit here.Neither was pace. They share traits such as not resembling actual human beings, not having believable motivations, and being inconsistent in their actions. For one thing, there are many poorly drawn characters, most notably the President, Hugh Garner, the Secretary of State, the First Daughter, and the story’s villain. There are so many things wrong with it that’s it’s hard to know where to begin. This novel can be aptly described as a train wreck.

First daughter by eric van lustbader