The Dream Ender: A Dick Hardesty Mystery by Dorien Grey © 2007 Zumaya
Boundless ISBN1-934135-62-4 224 pages Paperback $14.99 (U.S.)
Dorien Grey began as a pseudonym and evolved into an alter ego for a
lifelong book and magazine editor who wasn't comfortable putting his real
name ob books bridging the gay and straight communities.
This is the tenth book in the Dick Hardesty series. While I haven't read
the preceding books, I did dead (and review) the Western Novel Calico by
the
same author. Like Calico this book has no occult theme, but it is a
well-written mystery novel which should appeal to all fans of the genre.
Considering the large numbers of GBLT folks in the Pagan/Craft community,
I
felt it would be worth the effort to review this book and include it among
those I review for my usual posting sites. It is an *****c mystery
revolving around a modern-day plague (AIDS) which was largely unknown and
unacknowledged in the beginning. Sometimes it is hared to remember that
only a generation ago AIDS was an "unmentionable" disease, inspiring fear
in
the medical community as well as among the gay population
(civilization-at-large was safe, since everyone knew that it was a "gay"
disease).
It is, most definitely, an adult novel. Although there is no explicit
***,
there is a healthy dose of ***ual innuendo, as well as an emphasis on the
varieties of love in the gay community. It is, in the final analysis, a
well written mystery with a gay slant. It isn't (primarily) about being
gay, but about helping to determine who was responsible for deliberately
infecting the community, and dealing with the after effects.
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