The Magician of Dustville, by Hollis Shiloh
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The Magician of Dustville, by Hollis Shiloh
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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, by Hollis Shiloh- Amazon Sales Rank: #624526 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Released on: 2015-06-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Good narrative and setting, but problematic characters By Estarianne 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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Romance, mystery, and magic By M Campbell 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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This Book Is Why I Love To Read By Alan Arthur Katz I don't normally read or review short stories or novellas. There's not enough runway to develop the fully-fleshed out characters I love. But I desperately needed a Hollis Shiloh fix after reading a few very disappointing books, so I made an exception. I'm so happy I did.Unlike some others readers, I adored this book. The magician (let's call him "John") arrives at the almost-town Dustville with great mystery. No one knows why he has chosen to land in the middle of nowhere. The kindly Sheriff, Henry, takes a shine to the mysterious (and tiny) magician. They do manage the minimum of casual conversation at which time, the magician (the one we're calling "John") invites himself to have sex with Henry. He's pretty damned forward for a reticent man who normally doesn't have more than a word for anyone else.Over time, and with Sheriff Henry's tender ministrations, John begins to understand that this man really wants him. John is filled with self-loathing. Apparently his tiny stature and his tendency to look like a child, have made it difficult for anyone to take him seriously, except for the beautiful Henry, who is falling in love with him for whom he is, regardless of his stature and his often prickly nature. They fall in love. John does a few kindnesses for the town with his magic. He creates a barrier that the rustlers cannot cross to terrorize and vandalize Dustville, casts a spell to prevent any more children of dying of milk disease, finds strays, ensures, together with Henry, that the townspeople are kept safe.Until the day that a dying magician and his gunslinger-lover kidnap both of them, and to use John's magic to steal a train laden with gold. Hell ensues, almost literally.The sadistic, evil magician, uses his powers to launch a black spell that will, literally, rent the earth asunder, kill tens of thousands of people, destroy every town, village and ranch within miles (perhaps the entire territory) and ensure that no one can live there for thousands of years, maybe forever.Henry, recovering from his kidnapping and injuries, and almost devoid of magic, races out to protect his lover, Henry, when his magic recovers enough to deliver a message - that he has to go and save him.Which he does, and so much more.This is a beautiful little book about a beautiful little man and the big, tender-hearted man who loves him so. What I most loved about it is the incredible power that John is able to gather unto himself to stop the evil spell. He launched all the spells he brought with him, but they seem to have disappeared without effect, and yet the earth righted itself and magic went back into equilibrium. Although John never figured out why, Henry, though not a magician, did. At the time that the black spell was spinning out of control and threatening the two lovers, not to mention everyone else within miles, they held each other tightly, willing to die, but to die together, taking their love with them. It was the love that gave his spells the strength, their passionate commitment to each other with their hearts so good and true that provided the power to beat the spell back. I love the message: the antidote to evil is love.What a beautiful resolution to a beautiful little story. Written as only Hollis Shiloh can, with her uncanny ability to place her readers in a time that never existed, but somewhere shortly after the civil war, and write it in a voice appropriate to the times, the cultural and the South, after it lost the war to the Union. Ms. Shiloh's touch never fails to lift my spirits. Her stories move me and her writing just reminds me, every time, of why I love to read.Do yourself a favor and take a few hours to dwell in one more vivid and moving world Ms. Shiloh has so excellently created.
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