Well Traveled

An excellent and enjoyable Western.

I love historical romances for the feeling that I'm experiencing the private lives of characters from a different era, and this book definitely feels like a real window on the past. The leads, Jed and Gideon, were both appealing characters, with flaws and strengths. There's a lot of sex in this book, all very hot. But I also loved the framing device of a trip across the Wild West, and the action in the middle (when they come across the Hennessy farm) was quite gripping.

It was really refreshing to read a same-sex romance with a bisexual point-of-view character, Gideon. I got the impression Jed was also bisexual, but I can't say for sure. At the start of the book, Gideon's attraction to Jed leads him to spend (extra) time with a female prostitute (those scenes aren't explicitly described); when Gideon knows himself to be in love with Jed, but fears they don't have a future together, he hopes to find another man or woman he loves in the same way. I'm grateful to the authors for writing bisexuality in a way that echoes my own experience.

I only wish there were a lot more books about these two.