Dale Chase

Hearts On Fire Review

TWO & A HALF HEARTS--Dale Chase's "Blood Heat" is a historical western erotica set in 1891 featuring gay drovers, Tad and Clay in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The story is told from Tad's POV. He shot his lover 12 years ago and thought he was dead. But his shot didn't killor heal the old wounds between them. Yet they can't deny their lust. I mean this is erotica.

Just about everything is better with cum dumping, "butthole" munching and butt sex. A word of warning here: this is pure PWP, the plot is feeble but it is there. There are few mild dubious consent moments and parts where reality had to be suspended (someone breaks a rib, protests not to be able to have sex due to the pain and does it anyway).

Oh and this happens at 21%:

"And when I'd had enough of his filth, I rolled him over, got atop him, and shoved my tongue into his mouth, making him taste his own shit."

See that quote totally threw me out of the porn scene. I'm not one to knock what gets another person off if it's not my deal. And coprophagia has never been my deal, no matter how mild. In fact, that quote dredged up that "2 girls, 1 cup" horror show that I thought was well buried. (I couldn't work up the nerve to watch, only seen stills and reactions)

And now there's a brown elephant in the room, staring at me and whispering "poop" throughout the rest of the story. And it's not a bad story, it's smut with horny cowboys who love sucking and fucking in the Old West.

But that elephant kept whispering "number 2" which kinda ruined any other sex scenes going forth. I ignored it and then a mention of a "shitty dick" getting swallowed just threw me out of the game.

Did I truly care about Tad and Clay and their weird love for one another? Nope.
Did I understand the animosity? Hmm...not really.

But they had a shared love of butt sex and I'm sure it will carry them through until something (or some other guy) comes and shakes up their weak love(?)

So ignoring the smell in the room, the story is what is. Smutty cowboy fuckers who love having sex more than the person they're having it with, a couple of continuity issues, and okay ending. The writing is okay as well (ignoring the areas that turned me off).

It's PWP, I don't expect too much from them.

But this might work for readers who enjoy historical cowboy erotica who like dirty. (Literally) "… (mere)

I think I need to start this with the table of content: Highland Sleeper by Jeff Mann, No Mincing Words by Rob Rosen, Elsewhen by ’Nathan Burgoine, Mount Olympus by Jeffrey Ricker, Reunion on the Rails by Hank Edwards, The Blue Train by Erastes, The Train Home by Rick R. Reed, Royal Service by Dale Chase, Resist Me, Please! By Daniel M. Jaffe, Engine of Repression by Gavin Atlas, One Night on the Twentieth Century by Jay Neal, Shadow Mapping by J.D. Barton, Geronimo’s Laughter by Joseph Baneth Allen, The Roundhouse Men by Dusty Taylor, The Last Train by William Holden. Why? Because aside for very few names I didn’t know about, this is a collection of la crème de la crème in Gay Fiction. All these authors are bestsellers on their own, and having them all together in one anthology is a treat that make me forget for a moment that anthologies are usually not my cup of tea. It’s also a compliment to the editor, Jerry L. Wheeler, because I think it hadn’t to be simple to put them all together, maintaining by the way the feeling of uniqueness of the collection, all the stories work together for the same target.

Like the majority of these anthologies, Riding the Rails falls into the Erotica category, but I was quite surprise to find out that indeed this is also a Romance collection; some of the stories in it are not even about sex ( see ’Nathan Burgoine’s one), and almost all of them are about love story with an happy ending. Sure there is a bittersweet aftertaste all along the anthology, something that, truth be told, I have always found when reading stories related to trains… there has to be some deep connection between the two things, or maybe the train itself is a metaphor for something you wish but cannot catch. In any case, aside for maybe one or two exceptions (Rick R. Reed and Jay Neal probably), the romance reader will have plenty of happily ever after to enjoy, some of them a little kinky (Jeff Mann), some of them sweet (’Nathan Burgoine) and some of them funny (Daniel M. Jaffe)… to everyone their own.

A collective compliment to all authors go for the high quality of the stories, more little novel than short stories; different in genre, from historical, to sci-fi, to steampunk, but all of them way more than the average you usually are expecting to find in a collection; here the authors sent their best production, not what they had laying around in a forgotten folder.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1602825866/?tag=elimyrevandra-20… (mere)