Customer Reviews

AMERICAN OWNED LOVE.

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Authors must always deal with their past successes and failures. MYSTERY RIDE was a tremendous success; as such, readers will inevitably compare AMERICAN OWNED LOVE to it. But they are vastly different books. One might enjoy both (for a variety of reasons: the good prose and engaging characters in each, for starters). If you believe characters are at the heart of good fiction, you will like this book. If you want to be told how or what to think (or told what the black river has to "mean"), then look elsewhere. Look in your dream journal. Ask your therapist. While you're doing that, Boswell will quietly chip away at better questions: what it means to be human, what love is, what it does to us, and why.

I couldn't put it down but once I did, after I finished it, it didn't stick with me. Interesting characters and plot but what was the black river all about? Sorry, must have missed the symbolism there...

An enjoyable read but not as haunting as "Mystery Ride." The characters were well developed for the most part (my favorite was Henry) but it didn't seem to go where it could have. And what was the meaning of the black river? Think I missed something there....a good book to check out at the library, but I wouldn't encourage buying it.

I think that this novel would have given me greater enjoyment if it was written more subtly. By the time I was three-quarters of the way through the book I felt that I was reading a soap opera - and like people get sucked into watching soaps, I was sucked into finishing the book JUST BECAUSE. I enjoyed Robert Boswell's writing, but felt that I had digested the message and expended enough energy on the characters. I wanted to move on. Don't let this review stop you from buying the book, but buy it on the clearance shelf if you buy it at all.