What do You think about Reilly's Luck (2004)?
Okay - my father-in-law, husband, and all his siblings are Louis L'Amour fans. They grew up reading his novels. So, after 7 years of marriage, my husband finally asked me to read just one. I did, and I have to say it was really fun. Pure escapism, totally predictable and unrealistic, 100% western, but that's what made it fun! I smiled the whole way through. I think it's really nice, once and a while, to take a break and read a novel that you KNOW the good guy's gonna win and get the girl, etc. (the good looking, smart, fast-shooting, hard-working good guy, of course.) I had a great time reading it, and will probably read more Louis L'Amour books in the future.
—Kelley
Reilly's Luck is my favorite Louis L book so far and I have read about 20 of them. Of those I have read it is the one of about five I would give five stars to and not because of high literary quality. It was just so much fun. Lots of unexpected twists and turns and of course lots and lots of action in high Louis L style. You know the good guy will win with Mr Lamour but how he gets there can have a lot of variants. And as usual, honesty and generosity towards others always find their reward in t
—Andrew
I had fond memories of this novel & should have kept them. Beau Bridges read the book. His gravelly voice was OK for some parts, but the women's voices were horrible & a couple of women had very important parts in the novel. Still, he was OK for the adult male parts & was acceptable for the boy's.Unfortunately, the plot was full of convenience. OK, the end needed to be a convenient great meeting, but there were far too many others scattered throughout the story which skipped through time like a thrown stone. It could have used fleshing out in more than a few places. Instead, we're just told that "it was so" & usually that was the achievement of some skill that took a lot of practice, but there never seemed to be the time for it. Perfect heroes give me a pain, too.For all the spare writing & speed of the story line, L'Amour managed to repeat himself endlessly on the attributes & motivations of the characters as if the repetition would make them more believable. Didn't work.Overall, the story is a good one, but the execution just failed in this format & time.
—Jim
