The Magician of Dustville edition by Hollis Shiloh Romance eBooks
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Magic, danger, and love in the Old West
A small yet powerful magician moves to Dustville. He's prickly about his height (or lack thereof) and extremely private about his past.
Magician meets sheriff, also private about his past and quite firmly in the closet. It is, after all, the only safe place to be in the little almost-town of Dustville.
Attraction blossoming between them promises pleasure, and possibly more. Can this become what they both truly want — a real relationship?
And can they survive cruel villains, dark pasts, and a grave magical danger that will test them both to their limits … or beyond?
~38,000 words
The Magician of Dustville edition by Hollis Shiloh Romance eBooks
A wonderful story full of romance, mystery, and magic. If you like a tale of love between two strong characters who find each other and face the world together you will love this book. John, the magician, is very very short and very proud. He has come to Dustville to hide from his past. Henry, the sheriff, is a semi closeted gay man who also has a past to hide. They meet and a tentative romance begins. John does not believe that he helps Dustville, but he casts spells that save the town from rustlers, children from disease, amputees from pain, and animals from hurt. Although the town thinks fondly of John and think of him as "their" magician, John is unable to believe that he is doing much good. Henry, the sheriff, believes that his job is to coddle, love and protect John. At this point in the story things get really exciting. There is some jealousy, secrets of the past revealed, a kidnapping, bad magicians, a private cavalry, and a train robbery...the whole train is missing...not just the gold it was carrying. I will stop there except to say that the ending is great.Product details
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The Magician of Dustville edition by Hollis Shiloh Romance eBooks Reviews
I liked the narrative style that Shiloh used here. Quirky and retro, with a universal narrator and coordinated shifting of points of view.
But, you know, Hollis Shiloh writes pretty heteronormative m/m romances in general, and this one, in specific, was problematic in a number of ways.
"John" is introduced as a small man. In fact, two pages are devoted almost entirely to describing his smallness, and you're never, for a single sentence, allowed to forget it. He's small. He's tiny. He's a bantam in one sentence, and often is "the little guy."
And while some words are devoted to describing his somewhat sour expression and volatile temper, he's repeatedly described as "little (tiny), sweet, and pretty." It made it, for me, really difficult to see him as an adult male character. His feminization and diminution were so severe that I really had trouble reading him as an adult at all.
Henry is a pretty typical Shiloh alpha, with lots of petting and cuddling and coddling and overall paternalism. This really served to further demasculinize John. Henry wants to fix/save/rescue John.
The story reads pretty well, but the character development is severely hampered by this kind of overwhelming effort to make John into a little girl. When a S/M aspect is added, it is mostly characterized as a flaw within John, something that he needs but doesn't want, and it's not portrayed as a mutually desired activity in any way. Henry hurts John because John asks to be hurt, but Henry does not enjoy it, and hopes that some day he can cure John of this tendency through paternalistic love.
John is further portrayed as being emotionally fragile (one sentence pretty much encorporates John's entire character Henry "He would not have admitted it upon pain of death, but the little bantam magician looked terribly attractive when his blood was hot and he was fuming- confident for once, and not self-conscious. Because really he was, underneath everything, terribly shy.") John makes frequent "hurt little sounds" and in other ways shows that he is broken, but does not express his feelings or act upon them.
The book develops very slowly, with lots of really overdone references to how cuddly and sweet and loving the two men were with each other. Then bad guys come, and bad stuff happens. A man from John's past comes and sexually abuses him, and there is quite a lot of discussion of various abuses he's survived, and how he physically enjoyed them because he likes pain and humiliation. I found it kind of disturbing that it was assumed that a person with masochistic tendencies would be unable to distinguish between consensual and nonconsensual experiences, or between automatic reactions and voluntary actions. In other words, to a masochist being raped is pretty much the same as choosing to engage in sex that involves pain. Later, he might be traumatized, but at the time the rape was enjoyable.
And during the final climax, John's character was brought to its feminized climax. Basically, when he reached the climactic scene, he had no idea what to do. And he succeeded by giving up. By pure luck, his actions upon giving up were the solution to the problem, his agency had no influence on it at all. And afterward, it was not even him who was able to put his abusive former lover in his place- it was someone else who had fallen in love with him because he was so sweet, small, and pretty, a man who was not diminutive or feminine. This is the ultimate in romance sexism applied to a male character (the feminine archetype who succeeds only because she accidentally did the right thing).
There is not much sex in this book (there is some, but the scenes are less graphic than average for the genre), and the BDSM scenes are alluded to but not really played out in the book. Overall, I wish the author would use her obvious talent for narration and description to describe m/m romances in which both men are portrayed as equal agents in the romance.
Not very long but very polished and moving. A deserter finds courage and a masochist gentleness. Train robbery and earthquake add suspense.
This book is so well crafted, and so sweet that I wish I could give it twice as many stars.
M/M The story seems a bit distant emotionally; that's rather odd for this author. It read more like a draft than a finished story. I never had much empathy for the MCs, but I still enjoyed it.
Love the feel good stories that Hollis Shiloh writes. The characters are usually sweet and in desperate need of some love. I always enjoy the way the characters come together. This one was different mixing the old west and magic. I hope to visit some of the side characters the were created.
A very sweet and well developed story, with an interesting premise. It's written in the voice of an omniscient and uninvolved narrator-- more of a tale told in retrospect than an adventure being presented as it happens. (Every once in a while the narrator even addresses the reader directly.) It seems a departure from the usual style of this author-- one that takes some getting used to -- but it is well done. Enjoyable, even if you, like me, don't usually care for that kind of narration.
A wonderful story full of romance, mystery, and magic. If you like a tale of love between two strong characters who find each other and face the world together you will love this book. John, the magician, is very very short and very proud. He has come to Dustville to hide from his past. Henry, the sheriff, is a semi closeted gay man who also has a past to hide. They meet and a tentative romance begins. John does not believe that he helps Dustville, but he casts spells that save the town from rustlers, children from disease, amputees from pain, and animals from hurt. Although the town thinks fondly of John and think of him as "their" magician, John is unable to believe that he is doing much good. Henry, the sheriff, believes that his job is to coddle, love and protect John. At this point in the story things get really exciting. There is some jealousy, secrets of the past revealed, a kidnapping, bad magicians, a private cavalry, and a train robbery...the whole train is missing...not just the gold it was carrying. I will stop there except to say that the ending is great.
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