A review by cah242
Sackett's Land by Louis L'Amour

4.0

3.5 rounded up to 4. Very quick read, L'Amour gets the action going and doesn't really let up throughout the whole book. Definitely kept me engaged, but it also made the whole thing seem like it took place over a long weekend, rather than (I think) the year or more that it actually took. The characters were likable but pretty 1-dimensional, and in some cases even interchangeable. Sackett himself was a bit of a "Gary Stue." He was entirely capable of handling literally every problem he encountered with essentially no difficulty.

Also, I was looking forward to a western, and this is definitely not that, though I guess that's probably the result of me pigeonholing L'Amour into that genre. The setting is divided between London and Florida, though I can see the Sackett dynasty that I've heard so much about in its nascence. I don't know if I enjoyed the book enough to see it through, though.