by Jane
Review by: Slantedlight
Review
I began this zine with my OTP heart in my mouth, because Doyle and Bodie are not together and never were. Of course this is a Bodie/Don DeMarco crossover, so the author had to do something with Doyle, I just wish it hadn't been that! Still, with my hackles raised and a growl in the back of my throat I read on, and I'm incredibly glad I did, because I adored this story. Don DeMarco is as sexy as Martin Shaw made him in Ladder of Swords, and Bodie is himself all through. Together they've a kind of magic, and it unfolds against the wilderness background of Eastern Europe - Hungary and Romania - deep forests, swathes of wildflowers (and if they weren't actually described you knew they were there) and broken down tractors on blocks. Plenty of mission action and adventure, the lure of the circus and our heroes realising that they can't live without each other. What's not to like? Additionally this is very well written - there's tenderness, but not in a sappy way, the relationship is between two men and more so, one of them is, as I said our Bodie, culled from the episodes, not from wishful-thinking-gone-mad. I wouldn't always recommend Jane, but I recommend her Czardas with no hesitation whatsoever.
(Slantedlight, May 2006)