nasaje's review
2.0
Noah and Lennie get together in the Dusty Hat bar on the night of Lennie's 21st birthday. Noah has previously worked for Lennie's father, but was fired, and now there is bad blood between the two, and when he finds out that Noah 'made his son gay' he tries to split them up.
The Dusty Hat Bar is a novella about two gay cowboys, and the novella paints a pretty bleak picture on being gay in Texas. The MCs do worry about that, but there are surprisingly few issues with their relationship. I kind of hoped to read about that since the issue weighs pretty heavily on their minds, but it was all (more or less) peachy except with Lennie's dad. The writing style wasn't really my thing - the present tense, the third-person narration, and the small amount of shared thoughts/inner monologue created a distance between the reader and MCs so I didn't really connect with them. Short, straightforward story with a moderate level of steam.
Review copy provided in exchange for my honest review
The Dusty Hat Bar is a novella about two gay cowboys, and the novella paints a pretty bleak picture on being gay in Texas. The MCs do worry about that, but there are surprisingly few issues with their relationship. I kind of hoped to read about that since the issue weighs pretty heavily on their minds, but it was all (more or less) peachy except with Lennie's dad. The writing style wasn't really my thing - the present tense, the third-person narration, and the small amount of shared thoughts/inner monologue created a distance between the reader and MCs so I didn't really connect with them. Short, straightforward story with a moderate level of steam.
Review copy provided in exchange for my honest review
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