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Marine Love: 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?
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, graphic male/male sexual practices.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, graphic male/male sexual practices.
117 pages, ebook
First published November 11, 2008
About the author
Bobby Michaels
13 books117 followersBobby Michaels lives in Fort Lauderdale with hundreds – nay! thousands – of gorgeous, muscular men (most of them Marines) running around in his mind. Some are memories of sexual encounters, some are the characters from his many Nifty stories and Loose Id novels and some are characters from novels waiting to be written. So, though he lives alone, he is never lonely.
Bobby has been many things in his life. An actor, director, nightclub singer, professional female impersonator, a monk and, for twenty nine years, a social worker and grant administrator for local government. His government career ended in 2007 when a stroke caused the loss of the use of his left arm so that now all his writing is done by dictation through a voice recognition program called Dragonspeak.
But through it all Bobby has been first and foremost a writer, beginning his career writing stories for trashy romance magazines in the 1960s along with stories and poetry through the rest of his life. From the time he was five years old, Bobby has always dreamed of actually holding in his hands a book with his name on it as the author.
An avid reader, Bobby’s Kindle has hundreds of books in it. Most of them are male/male romances because he loves reading them almost more than he likes writing them.
Bobby has been many things in his life. An actor, director, nightclub singer, professional female impersonator, a monk and, for twenty nine years, a social worker and grant administrator for local government. His government career ended in 2007 when a stroke caused the loss of the use of his left arm so that now all his writing is done by dictation through a voice recognition program called Dragonspeak.
But through it all Bobby has been first and foremost a writer, beginning his career writing stories for trashy romance magazines in the 1960s along with stories and poetry through the rest of his life. From the time he was five years old, Bobby has always dreamed of actually holding in his hands a book with his name on it as the author.
An avid reader, Bobby’s Kindle has hundreds of books in it. Most of them are male/male romances because he loves reading them almost more than he likes writing them.
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November 13, 2008
I really enjoyed this book. I really rate it 4.5 stars, but since we can't do that, I thought I would bump it up ;)
Rick and Robby literally meet and fall in love during Rick's weekend leave.
I thought the book moved very smoothly, and the chemistry between the characters were HOT.
I wish the book was longer, and it kind of leaves you hanging, but I am hoping for a sequel. I would love to see how they end up.
I would like to mention that this book is VERY explicit. If you are offended by M/M Sexual practices, this book will not be for you.
I loved it and I am looking forward to reading more books by Mr. Michaels.
Rick and Robby literally meet and fall in love during Rick's weekend leave.
I thought the book moved very smoothly, and the chemistry between the characters were HOT.
I wish the book was longer, and it kind of leaves you hanging, but I am hoping for a sequel. I would love to see how they end up.
I would like to mention that this book is VERY explicit. If you are offended by M/M Sexual practices, this book will not be for you.
I loved it and I am looking forward to reading more books by Mr. Michaels.
January 17, 2012
This book is bad. It's so bad, it f*cked itself up the ass, sucked out its emissions, and kissed itself with that mouth, that's how bad it is. The plot goes kind of like this (I would spoiler tag it, but there's just no spoilering a plot like this):
Robby: Wow, you are a hot awesone Marine I just met and we're gay. I love you and jerk off to your picture.
Rick: I love you too, I know you are awesome even though we only met a few hours ago, and I don't find this creepy or weird at all.
*felch felch felch*
Rick: I love you so much, will you marry me?
Robby: Yes! And Mom, did you know I'm gay and I just met my life partner Rick?
Mom: Robby, that's awesome! I could ask for no more for your happiness than a life commitment to a Marine obligated to be closeted under DADT and whom you just met this weekend. Look how supportive and nice I am!
So, you see, we have a classic plot: introduction (our protagonists introduce themselves to each other), rising action (or, in this context, erection), climax (and bonus! playing with the products of said climax in all kinds of ways), falling action (refractory period), and resolution (declarations of love), over and over, integrating no conflict whatsoever. That's when I realized I was reading porn in romance clothing. And also that the classic description of plot stages seems horribly applicable to sex.
ALL THAT SAID--if I were evaluating this as porn, I wouldn't rank it so low since as pure erotica it wouldn't be so awful. But it's tagged and marketed as commercially published erotic romance, and it just doesn't meet the standard.
Robby: Wow, you are a hot awesone Marine I just met and we're gay. I love you and jerk off to your picture.
Rick: I love you too, I know you are awesome even though we only met a few hours ago, and I don't find this creepy or weird at all.
*felch felch felch*
Rick: I love you so much, will you marry me?
Robby: Yes! And Mom, did you know I'm gay and I just met my life partner Rick?
Mom: Robby, that's awesome! I could ask for no more for your happiness than a life commitment to a Marine obligated to be closeted under DADT and whom you just met this weekend. Look how supportive and nice I am!
So, you see, we have a classic plot: introduction (our protagonists introduce themselves to each other), rising action (or, in this context, erection), climax (and bonus! playing with the products of said climax in all kinds of ways), falling action (refractory period), and resolution (declarations of love), over and over, integrating no conflict whatsoever. That's when I realized I was reading porn in romance clothing. And also that the classic description of plot stages seems horribly applicable to sex.
ALL THAT SAID--if I were evaluating this as porn, I wouldn't rank it so low since as pure erotica it wouldn't be so awful. But it's tagged and marketed as commercially published erotic romance, and it just doesn't meet the standard.
June 6, 2012
A worthless book by an even more worthless author. First and last book I will ever try to read by Mr. Michaels as I have been told his others are pretty much the same. Unless you're a truly perverted, desperate and immoral wretch...I don't recommend anyone read this book. There is a difference between erotic literature and smut/porn.
February 20, 2010
i've never been a huge fan of bobby michael's writing, and this was no real exception. i'm not really sure why i continue to give michaels' books a chance. probably because the relationship aspect of the plots usually has the potential to be a decent lazy-sunday read. they just never quite make it.
Marine Love reads almost like a how-to on gay sex: the verbal interactions between the characters were mostly confined to more experienced character, Rick, explaining (read: lecturing) to Robby exactly where to put what, when, how with random asides about historical interpretations of gender roles. it was stilted and felt like i was reading one of those pamphlets they give kids in high school health class. well, with a whole lot of trying-to-be-raunchy sex described in a vivid accounting. actually, every time the characters spoke to one another it was as though they thought the other was an idiot. or like the author felt the reader was ignorant to the point that (literally) every other page there was a word or phrase or concept that was described and explained so that the stupidest of second graders would understand. it was painful.
really, the book would have been infinitely better had the author simply avoided any conversation between the two characters.
frankly, the only semi-decent thing about reading Marine Love was that there weren't glaring grammatical or spelling errors.
Marine Love reads almost like a how-to on gay sex: the verbal interactions between the characters were mostly confined to more experienced character, Rick, explaining (read: lecturing) to Robby exactly where to put what, when, how with random asides about historical interpretations of gender roles. it was stilted and felt like i was reading one of those pamphlets they give kids in high school health class. well, with a whole lot of trying-to-be-raunchy sex described in a vivid accounting. actually, every time the characters spoke to one another it was as though they thought the other was an idiot. or like the author felt the reader was ignorant to the point that (literally) every other page there was a word or phrase or concept that was described and explained so that the stupidest of second graders would understand. it was painful.
really, the book would have been infinitely better had the author simply avoided any conversation between the two characters.
frankly, the only semi-decent thing about reading Marine Love was that there weren't glaring grammatical or spelling errors.
January 4, 2009
What a fun read! Very fast pasted and great storyline. Loved it!
May 27, 2013
Another typical Bobby Michaels love story, with a wonderful marine, a cute younger man, lots of sex and sniffing.
Yes, it's formulaic but that's why I picked it. Sweet and very loving.
Easily 4.5*s.
Yes, it's formulaic but that's why I picked it. Sweet and very loving.
Easily 4.5*s.
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May 14, 2009Reading 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.
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/42...
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.
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/42...
June 18, 2012
This was really rough...so many things to talk about in this book. First, the story takes place over a weekend. It takes place between a 22 year old marine (Rick) and an 18 year old high school graduate (Robby)--at least I think he graduated--that was unclear. What was clear was the insta-love--and I mean love--as in I want to marry you--you complete me--you are my soul mate kind of love. The other thing that was clear was the sex...the constant sex...so much sex that I finally had to admit that I was sick of the amount and frequency.
Here's the real dilemma with this novel. Robby is a virgin. He has never even been kissed and he has a horrid self image and thinks of himself as sick and perverted--even though he has the most understanding mother in the entire world. And he falls in love--in 10 hours. TEN HOURS. The plot what little there is reads like this: Robby is house-sitting for the next door neighbor when their youngest son arrives home for a weekend pass--unannounced. From that point on it is one unbelievable moment after another--with so many orgasms these guys had to be machines and a instant love, "I want to be with you the rest of my life" that made my head spin.
So okay--this is a straightforward one--maybe 1.5 star novel--I mean honestly so contrived, no plot to speak of--and so convenient. Yep--definitely one star...and then there was this:
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Rick didn't see me with his eyes; he saw me with his heart. He didn't talk about what I looked like or about me being a "brain" or anything. He talked about what I was inside."
My god--that is lovely...really lovely. But still--the lack of plot--the constant sex that wasn't even that compelling--and this thing both of them had with smelling one another---and then...dear god--the felching. So yes--one star--rightfully so--one star. And then this:
"...I'm looking at you with my heart, and trust me, you are the most incredibly beautiful male I've ever met in my life."
Here's why this book got 2.5 stars. The author Bobby Michaels can write BEAUTIFUL poetic words--moving moments within a story. If he could have reigned in the other aspects of this story, this novel would have been a nice story--a solid little novel. Unfortunately, this was just a bit self-indulgent--and the storyline suffered as a result.
Here's the real dilemma with this novel. Robby is a virgin. He has never even been kissed and he has a horrid self image and thinks of himself as sick and perverted--even though he has the most understanding mother in the entire world. And he falls in love--in 10 hours. TEN HOURS. The plot what little there is reads like this: Robby is house-sitting for the next door neighbor when their youngest son arrives home for a weekend pass--unannounced. From that point on it is one unbelievable moment after another--with so many orgasms these guys had to be machines and a instant love, "I want to be with you the rest of my life" that made my head spin.
So okay--this is a straightforward one--maybe 1.5 star novel--I mean honestly so contrived, no plot to speak of--and so convenient. Yep--definitely one star...and then there was this:
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Rick didn't see me with his eyes; he saw me with his heart. He didn't talk about what I looked like or about me being a "brain" or anything. He talked about what I was inside."
My god--that is lovely...really lovely. But still--the lack of plot--the constant sex that wasn't even that compelling--and this thing both of them had with smelling one another---and then...dear god--the felching. So yes--one star--rightfully so--one star. And then this:
"...I'm looking at you with my heart, and trust me, you are the most incredibly beautiful male I've ever met in my life."
Here's why this book got 2.5 stars. The author Bobby Michaels can write BEAUTIFUL poetic words--moving moments within a story. If he could have reigned in the other aspects of this story, this novel would have been a nice story--a solid little novel. Unfortunately, this was just a bit self-indulgent--and the storyline suffered as a result.
November 29, 2013
this book sucks! really! sex, sex and no plot, and the author forgets some characters.
and hates cats, are you serious? why talk about cats if the author despites them?
the story is a mess, really, a mad marine against his evil family plus a weird cinderella story! (+STUPID moms, a very stupid nerd, and I enjoy stories about "nerds" or "geeks", the bad parents trauma...)
Nothing good to say about this... thing, a scholar boy can write better.
no more Bobby Michaels for me, and I'm deleting this crap of my ereader.
and hates cats, are you serious? why talk about cats if the author despites them?
the story is a mess, really, a mad marine against his evil family plus a weird cinderella story! (+STUPID moms, a very stupid nerd, and I enjoy stories about "nerds" or "geeks", the bad parents trauma...)
Nothing good to say about this... thing, a scholar boy can write better.
no more Bobby Michaels for me, and I'm deleting this crap of my ereader.
June 12, 2012
Nothing special, and too sappy, but enjoyable regardless. The characters are hot and lovable, and their relationship was cute. Too fast, too much, but nice. Gah! feltching is so gross! OMG! But it's written hot here, if that makes any sense.
June 25, 2012
The only thing saving this book from one star is the dirty, taboo sex of which there was too much, but it was rather steamy. The writing was not good and the relationship was ridiculous, but I did finish it!
September 15, 2012
The tooth fairy is going to make me rich tonight!!!! I feel like all my teeth are rotten and falling out due to huge amount of sugar in this book. If you are looking for a sweetly love story with lots of sex, than you got yourself a winner. Otherwise HANDS OFF!
May 12, 2014
Como siempre, Bobby Michaels deslumbra con sus historias tan románticas y dulces. En este caso, Robby y Rick, los protagonistas, son unos románticos sin cura XD En ciertos momentos sus diálogos resultan un poco empalagosos, pero todo puede pasarse cuando se ve el cariño entre ambos. Recomendable.
June 23, 2014
Insta-love at it's finest, but it's exactly what I wanted :)
Oh and come on. How clueless is Robby to not even know what a "top" is.
Oh and come on. How clueless is Robby to not even know what a "top" is.
January 10, 2010
Loved this one!
June 10, 2013
not the best
March 30, 2014
While the sex was hot, the plot and characterisation were quite absent.
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