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Loved this book: a werewolf tale with a difference in that it isn;t all about the full moon and changing urges. The fact that one of the characters is a werewolf does play a role, but not in the usual way. I really liked that!

Loved this one!

Just like the other two volumes in the series, this long awaited third sequel was amazing in its character development and in the problems that gay men have with (some) churches.

David has tremendous issues when he realizes he's going to have to leave the Roman Catholic church if he wants to be with his lover Conner. Conner is very supportive, but many of the internal problems are David's to solve. Once he has done that he still needs to tackle his family and even though one of his brothers is gay and fully accepted by their parents, David is still scared. How he overcomes that fear is described with sensitivity and very credible.

I loved it!

Absolutely loved this book! Couldn't put it down and will probably re-read it as well.

This was probably the most awaited book from Bobby Michaels’ fans. For various reasons its release slipped month after month, and the book itself went under a total rewriting. Saying that I was curious to read it is saying a lie… I was dying curious to read it.

Each and every book by Bobby Michaels is a piece of him. Who he is, what he likes, how he lives, all of it is in his books. Bobby Michaels is angry? Then his character is angry. Bobby is sad? Then his character is sad. Bobby believes, despite everything, that the world could be better? Then his character has a hope that is greater than the world. Recently I read a right polemic about not judging a fictional book on the personal experience of its writer, and I firmly believe in it, with an exception: you can’t separate Bobby Michaels from his book, they are the same thing. There is an innocence in his characters that has written all over “Bobby”.

Innocence, what an odd word to describe characters who seem to base everything on sex, on the more basic instinct, like smelling the sex, like tasting the sex; but David and Conner, like Dar and Gregg, and Vince and Drew before, are all innocent. The world has not corrupted them, love is still the force that drives them, and sex is only the way to express it. If someone wonders on the credibility of two characters who fall in love at first sight, well then, maybe, that someone has lost its innocence. David and Conner can fall in love at first sight since they still firmly believe in it, they still consider it possible.

And the innocence and the hope it’s not only in the characters, it’s also in the story. David, Roman Catholic priest, has the chance to love and marry Conner simply changing his orientation becoming an Episcopal priest; he can continue to be a priest, he finds another Church that is willing to accept him, he has family and friends to support him. No apparently obstacles in his path, same as for Conner and his work as police detective. Are you thinking that this is too good to be true? Same here, friends, but I think that Bobby Michaels is not trying to tell you the reality as it’s, he is trying to tell you the reality as he would like it to be; this is his version of the story, how he is hoping the world will be in the next future. Don’t get the wrong idea that he doesn’t know how reality is, only that he prefers to give hope and romance to his men.

There is a lot of religion, politics (that sometime, unfortunately, are the same thing), family and social issue, so much of them that here and there I had the feeling that I was reading an essay, or maybe the brainstorming of the author, like he was trying to decide something, and used his characters to take that decision. There is also a lot of sex, and some purist would question the pairing, it was almost disconcerting leaving a discussion on the pro and cons of being a Roman Catholic rather than an Episcopal, to suddenly being in bed with David and Conner who were snowballing each time they had sex.

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Weekend Leave
It would be easy for shy Robby to lose his virginity and his heart to the handsome Marine who had arrived at his doorstep for the weekend. But once Rick was gone again, where would that leave Robby?
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This was a terribly romantic read. They're in love pretty much from the get go. Much, much smex and so not for the more PG 13 inclined reader. If you've read Bobby before, you'll know what I mean! Another stunningly gorgeous cover by Croco Designs.

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Reading a book by Bobby Michaels is an unique experience; sometime it seems to read an "how to do" text for inexperienced gay and sometime an ad campaign for gay rights, but above all you feel the author behind it. Bobby Michaels is well present in all his books, and what he writes is what he is. Don't try to analyze the book from a perfection point of view, don't try to question if what he writes is real or fantasy or too kinky to be available simply through a non pornographic book, when you open a Bobby Michaels' book, you have to know that you will read something that you haven't never read, unless you weren't one of his previous reader.

There are two things that probably Bobby Michaels love, a gay man and a marine man, and in Weekend Leave he puts together both (like he did in The Veteran and For the Love of the Corps). Rick is a 22 years old Marine just back home from Iraq; a very clever and good guy when he was in high school, he chose to become a Marine to learn how to be a man. Don't get him wrong, Rick knew that he was gay, and he was quite all right with the idea, but he also knew that being gay will get him in trouble sooner or later, and he thought that learning the way of a Marine would help him. Plus he had a not so idilliac relationship with his family, and leaving as soon as possible it seemed a good idea: finding in the Corps the family he didn't have at home was a good perspective, and the recognition and pride in being a Marine would supply to the lack of enthusiasm in his real family for him and his life.

In the same neighbor where Rick lived and attending the same high school now there is Robby, an 18 years old living alone with his single mother. Robby is too clever for his own good; not having a fatherly figure at home, someone with whom speaks of sex and other manly things, Robby has learnt alone all it was necessary... also to hate the fact that he was gay since it made him a "stranger" in his own skin. No one around him actually ambushed Robby, but he is not comfortable with himself, and in this way he cuts off himself from the rest of the world.

When Rick comes back home for a leave, he has the bad surprise to find his parents gone for the all weekend, but the good one of a Robby guy who offers him to spend the weekend with him. Robby is shy and tender, but also friendly and loving; Rick falls hard and soon for the boy and he will spend the weekend in teaching new tricks to him (here the part of the "how to do" text book...). In two days Robby and Rick do more things then most of the couples do in an entire life, included speaking of love and a future together.

Love and future are another constant in Bobby Michaels' work; even if down and dirty, the sex between his characters is always imbued of love, and love is the most powerful aphrodisiac. Especially when he writes about young characters, they claim love aloud and without fear; his characters are always so sure of their feelings, so blind to the ugliness of the world if only they can have that love.

I stopped long ago to question why I like so much this author; it's impossible to say, and questioning with friends made me doing very bad figure, since what for me is impossible, for other is a normal thing of life. The world is good since it's different, and I know that out there there is who will love this book, and who will cordially hate it. It's right, but I hope you will love it.

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The second enstallment in the Jock Dorm series.

Drew is the little brother of Gregg and he is a wrestler, like his brother, and like his brother is gay. For this reason, when he is 18 years old he decides to leave home and their unlovely parents and join Gregg at University.

He is setting in room with Vince, another wrestler, and soon the two of them become lovers. Like for Gregg and Dar, they don't find problems among the College people, and very little problems with Vince's family, a very traditional italian family.

And here maybe there is the strong aspect of the book: one of the Vince's brothers are David, a catholic priest. Even if David is very supporting of Drew and Vince, the opinion on the Christian Church we can evince from the book is pretty hard. For this reason I find this book more strong than the other, Gregg and Dar. Here we can, maybe, read the real experience of the author (his or of his friend, I don't know). Like an Italian who live in the Pope's country, I must admit that much of these hard opinions are sadly true, but, fortunately, something is changing.

The book is pretty strong also in the love aspect: Drew and Vince, like Gregg and Dar, are young college jock, and at the beginning of the book, seems that sex is the most important thing (even if it arrives after a love proposal): they make sex very often and for them sex is a smelling and tasting experience! But the book grows with them after the college years and we can have a look at their adult relationship.

I found this book a lot more committed of what you can expect from a jock dorm tale

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Dan and Mike are always been all for each other. Born the same day in the same hospital and living at two home of distance from each other they have shared all the "first experience" apart sex.

Cause the teen Dan soon has understood that he is not interested in girl, but in guy, and his only true love is Mike. But Mike is straight and he has a golden future as quarterback far from home. So Dan join the Marine Corp and Mike goes to college.

But two years after, Mike asks Dan to pass his leave with him, in his home and it is love, and sex, and love. But after six days of loving Mike dumps Dan: he wants to have children, and for that he is willing to get married.

So Dan goes back home and Mike became a superstar quarterback. And then another but... Mike send a fly ticket to Dan, asking him to join in an luxury hotel in New York. What does it means?

The book is too short to permit me to have a full impression about Dan and Mike, apart the fact that Dan is far more mature than Mike.

I have read another book by Bobby Michaels, Jock Dorm, and I notice one thing: Bobby Michaels likes "smell" sex. Of the five senses, the smell is the most important in the sexual relationship he describes. And his characters aren't werewolfes!!! But he has also an easy writing and a way to describe "dirty" sex that make it "simple". A gift indeed.

So if you want a fast reading with romanticism and dirty sex join together, Red Heart Bowl is up tp you. If you have no issue for the "smell" thing. :-)))

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One of the guys used to be...less than chaste and then he meets Mr. Right (instead of Mr. Right Now) and boom, suddenly talking marriage after kissing once. They have a date, the guy meets the "ex-player" 's (?) son the next day and he's already calling him dad. The guy comes sleep over and then he moves in the next morning. They talk about having another kid the day after and then they're practically married the day after that. Tragedy on the wedding night, apprently the kid suddenly has a brain tumor but hey, no worries, it's out and he's all cured a few days later, ah the wonders of prayers and miracles. So then, the next day they adopt another kid and the day after the new kid is home and all ends well.

*Out of breath*

It felt like everything happened wayyyyyyyyyyyy too fast, not only did all the situations arising only had 10 pages each but there was too many of them crammed in there.
Besides the cheese factor being through the roof, It was just soo soo very silly, I could barely stop from rolling my eyes every other sentences.

The last by Bobby Michaels sounds somewhat more romantic and tender than ever.

I'm used to the fact that Bobby Michaels' novels are romantic, he obviously believes in love forever, but his former novels are also very erotic, with a strong accent on the physical aspect of love. His characters fall in love at first sight and then inflame their love with sparkling sex for all over the book.

Rock Paper Scissors has some elements in common with the former novels: Thomas is a very rich man. He knows since his teen years to be gay but he has never fallen in love. He has spent all the year through the boarding school and college living a life without responsability and commitment. He was not a bad guy, he was even a good student, but he has never spent much of his forces in nothing. Then one morning he wake up in bed with a woman (one of the only three time in his life) and he neither remembered why he was with a woman and not with a man (alcohol and drugs helped). And when that woman two months later claimed to be pregnant of his child he thought to get rid of her and the child in the easy way: abortion and money. But Thomas' father saw it as the only chance for him to have an heir and for his son to finaly grow up, and so paid off the girl and dropped the baby in the lap of his son. And from that moment on Thomas felt in love: Tiger, his son, became all the world for him.

Now years later, Thomas lives in San Francisco, trying to build a life for his son and himself far from his estranged father and thinks he needs nothing more than his son in his life. But when Brian enters his office asking to help him getting divorces (cause he has finally admitted he is gay and can't no more live a lie), Thomas knows from the first moment that he has fallen in love for the second time in his life: first for his son and now for the man he wants to share his life forever.

Since Thomas' son, Tiger, is far from against the idea to have a second dad in his life, the path from being lovers to being life partners is very short and now Thomas is on his way to build not only a life at three, but also a new whole family around him: and the first add to this family will be Brian's brother, Matt. Brian has long ago lost contact with his brother, a priest, but they now live in the same city, and even if Thomas is not in very friendly relationship with Church's hierarchy, he knows that Brian needs to reconnect with his brother.

As I said, like in the former novel, love is the engine of all the story: before moving on sex, Brian and Thomas fall in love and their first date together is a very tender scene, where all you read is about kisses under the stars... Not worries, the usually enthusiastic sex scenes (with the characterist Bobby smell's fixation) are plently through the novel, but I like very much that this time the beginning is a little more romance and little less erotic.

Another element that you will find in this novel and that without doubt makes it a Bobby's trademark, is that Bobby Michaels has not problem to unveil a lot of taboo within the common thought of society: in this novel he speaks against religion, but not against God ("Religion is what’s left after God has left the building"), he speaks of a characters, Matt, that is maybe his dreams of a "real" priest, he speaks of same sex marriage, he speaks of gay love when your are not more a young man and maybe when you have a son, he speaks of the don't ask don't tell Marine's rule, he speaks of the problems that gay men have if they want to remain within the Catholic church, he speaks of the chance that you seven years old son could be grown up and being gay (is it because you are gay, or he is gay cause he is born gay?), he speaks of adoption for gay couple... I think he speaks of himself and of the world he dreams of: a lot of things in this novel will never happen, at least not in the next years, or maybe happen if you have enough money to change the law for you, but a man can dream, can't he?

As usually I have finished in a session the latest book by Bobby Michaels. How he manages to write about hot and dirty sex and still gives a feeling of romanticism in the story I don't know. But when I closed a book by him I'm satisfied like I was when I was reading my first romance and when the sex was still a discovery (more than twenty years ago... I'm OLD).

Mike is a only son of a single mother. He has never had the chance to have a real sense of brotherhood during school and when he enters the Corps he bakes in the feel to have finally a 'family'. He loves the Corps and loves to be a Marine, but he has to admit that he even loves Scott, his boot camp buddy. Mike is a big man, very selfconsciousness of his strenght and proud of it, instead Scott is shorter and leaner. When they confess their reciprocate feelings, is easy for Mike to take the upper hand in the relationship. It's not a thing about being bottom or top (even if Mike could frankly admit he prefers to top) it's more a thing of how they rely one to the other. Even if Scott is more experienced and in the beginnins he is who teaches to Mike the joy of gay sex, it's Mike who is the engine of the relationship.

They spend five years in the Corps and they are happy, stolen moments during their assignments to be together. But then Scott is killed in mission, and Mike is wounded. His big body manages to recover, but his souls is teared apart: he only wants to die and be forever with his lover. But duty calls, and he finds himself again in the Corps: good, he thinks, a way to go again in mission and kill himself without no one suspect.

His new officer, thought, has other ideas: Paul is a outed gay (not in the Corps, obviously, but with his family and friends) and the first day he meets Mike, he decides he will have this man. Paul is on the opposite of Scott, bigger, bigger then Mike, and with a leader attitudine given him by his well-born and wealthy family. He is not accustomed to being refused and Mike finds himself swept away by this man. For Paul is so different from Scott, Mike can love again: the new relationship he has with Paul is completely different from before, he knows he can let the hand to another person.

As always my problem (but it's not a 'bad' problem which prevents me from reagind the book, instead I eagerly bought it and read it as soon as possibile) with Bobby Michaels' novel is to 'really' believe in the sex scenes: they are extreme, exagerate and very, very explicit. Graphic and physical. But maybe the 'problem' is that I'm a woman and I think with a 'woman' head.

The book deals with a lot of issue: gay Marine, the war first in Afghanistan then in Iraq, the disagree among the officers for some political decisions taken by Washington, gay marriage, even a little hint to the gay adoptation... And overall you feel the love that Babby Michaels has for the Marine (a 'pure' love, don't think bad... well, maybe not so pure...). The book is for entertainment, and it reaches its scope, but I can hardly definy it a 'light' entertainment.

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Bobby Michales' novel are strong, almost porn. They are not for faint hearts. And they are not for who likes his novels all sweet romance. The first time I read a book by Bobby Michaels (Jock Dorm 1) I thought: Eeeak. But then I re-read it (oh yes, the allure of kinky and gross things) and I clearly found under it something more: the characters are very romantic. They love with all the soul and the body. Love and sex is the same and Sex is an experience which involves all the senses, and above all taste and smell.

From that moment on I have read all of Bobby Michaels' books and also some of the short stories he has written for Nifty. It's like a drug, more he is graphic and more he is unbelievable decipiting sex scenes and more I want to read about it. BUT I want to read more about it cause his characters are in love: they don't make sex for the sake of it, they make sex cause it's their way to exprime love.

Ty and Tim are the same characters of "The Veteran". In "Treating Ty" they are spending their first Halloween together, and Tim has to deal with a man that has never had a childness and an Halloween night. Really this is not only a sex scene: there is also a story behind it, a story which tells us of abandon and banishment and of the force of love.

I will continue to read Bobby Michaels' works and I hope he will write more and for a long time.

This was an excellent long novella and much more than your typical gay romance. Tim works in a hospital. He is still grieving for his brother, a marine killed in Iraq. He buries himself in work until he meets ex-Marine Ty. Ty's a new patient, who lashes out at everyone in his anger. Tim agrees to work with him and as Ty heals, they become friends. But, both of them have secrets that need to be overcome before than can move past friendship. The story is touching, especially the painful reality of living through combat. The author handles these issues with compassion, without lessening the sacrifice soldiers make. Ty and Tim are well developed characters; I empathized with their pain, celebrated their happiness, and would love to read more about them. Highly recommended.½

I can frankly say that Bobby Michaels is becoming one of my favourite writers in the M/M genre.

Second Time Around is his first paranormal romance but you can still find some of his caracterist touches in it: the young lovers, the difficult outing for one or for both of them, the Marine Corps... but somewhat this novel is more lighthearted, and it is strange cause it deals with a delicate matter like HIV.

David is coming back home after ten years to heal his wounds: his ten years lover has cheated on him and he has not thought two times and has dumped him immediately. But now he is back in the town where he met his real first love, his childhooh friend Josh, his straight as an arrow friend and so his impossible love. Fortunately Josh doen't live anymore there and David can settled himself, only to discover that Josh is back home himself and he is in love with David, now as ten year before. Everything perfect, but David discovers that his ex lover has passed him the HIV and that Josh is a werewolf and biting him he can heal David from the virus and...

Josh is not the "classical" alpha male: he is gentle and caring, sometimes childish. He can cry and he is a lot more than normal enthusiastic during lovemaking, like a child with a new toy. And David is cute, so shy but also so proud, he is not so open to love like Josh is, he need reassurance. I like the relationship between the two, and like very much the aftersex moment, when they talk and play: maybe only a couple who know each other so long can be like this.

Second Time Around is a smooth novel, you read it in a breath and close the last page with a peaceful feeling: it is all, simple and pure love.

This is, somewhat a surprising for me. I'm used to stories by Bobby Michaels full of humor and sex, and instead this time the sex is in second position: more important is the building of the relationship beween Ty, the veteran, and Tim, the social worker who tries to bring out the man from his post traumatic depression.

Ty is a former marine, better and ex-marine, who was thrown out from the Corps. He is angry and injured, but he is not angry with other people. He growls but not bits. And he is gorgeous, tall and muscular. Tim can possibly resist to him and when he is discharged from the hospital, he takes him home. He has immediately felt something for this man,maybe because his beloved brother was a marine, and he died in Iraq, or maybe because Tim is gay and Ty is a beautiful man, or maybe because Ty needs really someone who takes care of him.

So they settle down in a strange relationship, like a marriage without sex. But Memorial Day is near and it will be a day of revelation.

Tim, like many other characters of Bobby Michaels, is a cute guy who has had some problems to be acquainted with his being gay: so he has no sex experience at all. And Ty instead, is a character with a problematic past, but this fact has not hardened his heart, he is still capable to love, even if, maybe, not so able to exprime it.

This is a brief story, very tender and to read all at once.

4.0 of 5