Ulysses from Queer Romance Ink Review of The Bedfordshire Warlock

"I found Dorian to be rather full of himself but maybe that's just the way we were as young gay men in the 1990s...the slight arraogance we see in Dorian is meant to create an instant contrast with the humility of Tobias Blessing the boy on whom Dorian develops an instant crush...Toby Blessing is a rugby star at Bedfordshire College and a classic muscular blond jock. For all that, he's gentle and surprisingly humble with none of the toxic masculinity one might expect. Toby is much less secure in his gay identity than the worldly 'out and proud' Dorian. As it happens, he brings out the best in Dorian."

"Patrick Field's narrative intertwines the budding relationship between these two young men with the paranormal historical narrative of the murdered warlock, Elias Doever. Into this the author has inserted a supernatural element that isn't any part of any withch-trial narratives I've heard of. This might be th Poe connection.'

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2026/06/12/review-the-bedfordshire-warlock-patrick-r-field/