Scott County Library audiobook 5 CDs
read by David Strathairn
genre: western
1890s? I haven't read a Louis L'Amour book for a while. This was a Sackett book, but it started with Orrin and then shifted to William Tell . . . as they tried to discover what had happened twenty years earlier when their dad disappeared. Here are some impressions I had while listening.
The hotel worker / former slave is named Judas Priest . . . I wonder what that meant to the author when he wrote this. It made me think of the heavy metal band, and the Bible.
In chapter seven, when they talked with Phillip, I laughed at the characters who had gone out west twenty years ago - Mr. Sackett with Pierre, Andre Baston, Hippo Swan, Angus Priest, and Pettigrew! (I instantly thought of Harry Potter with that one . . . )
They're seriously trying to uncover what had happened out west in the mountains twenty years earlier?
I had to look up "dido" because he used it at least twice. Here's what Merriam-Webster says:
2
: something that is frivolous or showy
It was funny how L'Amour seemed to be trying to show how enlightened he was in terms of his attitudes toward racial differences (as shown in how the noble Sacketts treated former slaves). Yet coming from the very PC 20teens, his language choices are just so NOT as enlightened.
Why on earth would Tell insist on going out alone to face murderers when there are capable friends who could help? He's not much of a strategist.
This is the eleventh Sackett book (according to the end blurb). I like the Sacketts, but the ending was so abrupt and the western macho just not my favorite style. It was a fun, quick change of pace.
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