5th Review

Conagher
Louis L'Amour
Western Fiction
7/10

In this story there is a man named Con Conagher. He is a ranch hand that just travels from job to job. One of his jobs was to herd horses around to each of the Stagecoach stations. One of these stations there is a house who Evie Teale lives. Something first sparks there at that first meeting. Anyway, Conagher keeps on going until his job is done. Then naturally he moves on to find the next job. And just keeps moving around until he finds something that brings back memories.

One major theme this book has is remembering. In this book L'Amour keeps bringing up memories of Conagher. I think he is trying to tell us to remember all of the good times that we have had and forget about the bad times. Also, I think he is telling us that we always need to keep looking forward. There will be better things to come.

This book is kind of a romance. Conagher can't seem to forget about Mrs. Teale. Also in this book are some scenes of which you would expect to be in a Western book. There are fight scenes and ranching scenes but it is mostly centered around Romance. In this book you get to see both points of view. You can see what Conagher is thinking and seeing but, you also get to see what is happening around Evie. I would say it is first person because you can only see the thoughts of these two people.

I believe that this book is intended for adolescent boys. I think that the girls would also like it because there is some romance. That might turn the boys away at first but there is a lot of action involved as well.

I would recommend this book. I rated it a 7 out of  10 because I wasn't really into the whole romance thing but I did like the action scenes. I would recommend this book to people who need something to uplift them because like most romance books do the good guy always ends up on top. As Rain Levity puts it "As authentic and gritty as you expect from L'Amour, but also a romance. I really enjoyed this story. It gives the perspectives of both the cowboy, Conagher, and the widow, which is interesting and a little different from the L'Amours I'm used to reading." to Second what she said Lao T. Sue states that "This is one of L'Amour's best books -- with a stronger romantic plot than usual. It's certainly one of the best ways to start reading this author -- or to start again if you haven't read his stuff lately.