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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
L'Amour has a professional style. He uses the Western as a backdrop to a character driven story. As in most Westerns there is quite a lot of violence. The romance is a wet dream where women live in function of men, but there is never a hint of explicitness. Angie is a terribly paper-thin character.
I worried about the representations of First Peoples but Vittoro comes of quite good. He is a noble leader who loves children and is honest. Silva is terrible, but what is most awful are the whites' opinion of Native Americans. I give it a full star for showing their hypocrisy and racism.
I worried about the representations of First Peoples but Vittoro comes of quite good. He is a noble leader who loves children and is honest. Silva is terrible, but what is most awful are the whites' opinion of Native Americans. I give it a full star for showing their hypocrisy and racism.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Kind of childish. Simplistic plot and flat cliched characters. You can tell it's the novelization of an old western movie.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
relaxing
slow-paced
One of the best books I've ever read. I loved every page and I think L'Amour balanced the delicacy of relationships with the harshness of the Land. A classic I will without a doubt be reading again.
For those of a certain age it’s impossible to not picture John Wayne as you read about Honda Lane. A thoroughly entertaining read.
Typical issues of race and gender, which was expected but disappointing, for obvious reasons and also because of the number of lazy narrative shortcuts it resulted in.
However, the story moved along at a good pace.
However, the story moved along at a good pace.
A classic western doing classic western things.
Hondo is a skilled marksman and rider for the US military as tensions between the army and Apaches rise. Out on his own, he stumbles upon a ranch house with a woman and boy. He begins to develop feelings for them, and they for him, but things get complicated when the Apache chief expects her to marry one of his tribe.
This book does everything you expect it to do which I guess is exactly what you want from an old genre western. The main characters have tough exteriors but soft hearts and sometimes things feel a little too convenient. My biggest critique was how the book effectively built anticipation for the final "epic" battle which then was crammed into the final 10 pages of the book and ends abruptly.
Definitely a letdown after an effective buildup.
This was my first foray into western books so I don't really have other recs for things similar.
Hondo is a skilled marksman and rider for the US military as tensions between the army and Apaches rise. Out on his own, he stumbles upon a ranch house with a woman and boy. He begins to develop feelings for them, and they for him, but things get complicated when the Apache chief expects her to marry one of his tribe.
This book does everything you expect it to do which I guess is exactly what you want from an old genre western. The main characters have tough exteriors but soft hearts and sometimes things feel a little too convenient. My biggest critique was how the book effectively built anticipation for the final "epic" battle which then was crammed into the final 10 pages of the book and ends abruptly.
Definitely a letdown after an effective buildup.
This was my first foray into western books so I don't really have other recs for things similar.