The Haunted Mesa: A Novel

Incredibly boring. This book has WAY too much navel-gazing, where the narrator repeats points that have already been made over and over, and asks himself the same questions over and over. This writing style is grating, and gets old fast. For far too long, little or nothing happens in this story. Only in the last quarter does any action pick up. About 100 pages of this could have been edited out. After a while you start skimming all the questions, because it's just repeating the same stuff. The story itself is kind of goofy, and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

My step dad had bought me this as a teen and I thought I would revisit it as an adult. Not a good idea. Nothing about this makes me want to read anything else by this author. Not recommended.

Never read such a boring, fractured, repetitive book in my life. If it weren't for the fact our book club recommendedand were going to discuss it, I would have stopped reading after the first chapter. Too many subplots or irrelevant subjects thrown in which were never explored or had any bearing to main plot. The repetition drove you nuts. Talk about padding a story....

All the members of our book club were disappointed with the book. Common complaints: too long to get into the story, difficult to believe story line, some hard to comprehend connections, where did some people come from, wrapped up quickly.

A departure from Lamour's usual good stories.

I read this book frequently drawn to it's southwest atmosphere and it's mood of creepy mystery. In his books L'Amour often hints at lost histories as characters encounter strange relics in the wild lands of the west but in this story characters and readers actually enter one such mystery. L'Amour carefully builds the sense of strangeness and even horror that one would feel on being forced to enter an alternate world to save a friend. Then when character and reader suddenly enter that world the story goes into action. To me this is L'Amour's best story.

This is a wonderful book, a real deviation from the norm for L'Amour.
It gives one pause to think about the Indian Religions.
If you have been to the South West you can feel why this book is so provoking.