Title: Dime Novel
Series: N/A … but it appears it might be
Author: Dale Chase
Genre: Erotic Historical
Length: Short (50 pages)
Publisher: Wilde City Press (December 4th, 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥ 3Hearts
Reviewer: Eli/Mandingo
Blurb: Dime novelist Benedict Bright has brought fame to Arizona Marshal Evan Teague but when he ventures west to meet the man he’s written about, he finds he’s done his subject wrong and further, that Teague is determined to set things right. As the marshal introduces the writer to western reality, through law enforcement as well as manly intimacies, Bright gains new resolve in his work while swept up in a passion like no other he’s ever known. But will it last forever… or break his heart?
Purchase Link: http://www.wildecity.com/books/gay-erotica/dime-novel/#.Utq7tBAo6M8
Review: This is a story set in the 19th century. It’s often interesting to read historical m/m romance because they are usually stories about men who are in the closet. This story, however, while no different, was somewhat intriguing. Why? Because it’s a good, old-fashioned western. Benedict goes out west to get corroborative evidence re the hero in his dime store novels. He’s been getting his information from newspapers, then elaborating, and embellishing those stories. So he meets his hero and finds out that there is much more to the man than he first thought. One big thing being that his hero likes men and that the man who died in the true to life story he wrote was his hero’s lover.
Benedict and Evan spend some time together both in and out of bed and they learn much about each other. But, what’s a western without a bank robbery or a shootout at the OK Corral? Well the story delivers one of these and it becomes a watershed moment for Benedict and Evan. The story ends fairly abruptly with the relationship between the men being unresolved; however, it leaves the door open for a sequel, which would prove to be another interesting read.