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Rock Paper Scissors
Thomas Wells Atherton III, known as Tommy, the unbelievably wealthy scion of an old "Back Bay" Boston family has let the family down by being gay. After graduating from Harvard, rather than accepting a job arranged by his father with a prestigious Boston firm, Tommy heads for San Francisco where he can live openly as a gay man. He has only one small piece of baggage--Thomas Wells Atherton IV, better known as Tiger--his son. Even once he gets to San Francisco, Tommy has no intention of meeting anyone important. He's never been in love and isn't about to fall. Famous last words. Then into his office walks Brian Baldwin, muscular Irish construction worker. Tommy takes one look and he's a goner. But Brian has come for a divorce, and Tommy's hopes are nearly dashed. When Brian admits he wants a divorce because he's gay, Tommy finds himself doing things and thinking things he's never thought about before, including bringing Brian home to meet Tiger. And once they "sleep over" as Tiger would say, Brian never leaves.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: male/male sexual practices.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: male/male sexual practices.
174 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Bobby Michaels
13 books119 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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February 8, 2010
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.
*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.
January 27, 2012
Nothing about this story made any sense. It started out with a promising premise, but while I love books where characters have kids, I get annoyed very quickly when the child is literally just there to enable the romance. I don't know any sever year old who wouldn't be even a little bit wary about their only parent dating, let alone moving a guy in after one date. That was also something that annoyed me; the speed at which they entered a relationship didn't feel at all real. Two days from meeting to moving in together? Really.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 14, 2012
This book made me want to dig my eyes out with a spoon...and there's this part that's just ewwwwwwwwwwww like OMFG OCD ewwwwww I am SHOCKED my GR peeps rated this so highly. @_@?
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April 10, 2009The 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?
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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?
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November 17, 2009
Absolutely loved this book! Couldn't put it down and will probably re-read it as well.
June 23, 2014
I was in the mood for insta-love super sappy and this fit the bill, perfectly. However, my 7 year old doesn't act like Tiger.
November 20, 2019
I like this book and i thought teddy was the cutest little boy but i thought the romance was rushed so it was a okay read and having read books frimthis author before this story was predictable and did not offer something new so all in all an okay book but not his best
June 1, 2011
2.5 stars
The story itself was ok. The story moves very quickly but because of that there is no real character development and thus losing my interest in the characters. The dialog for the most part comes off as really campy and left me rolling my eyes in disbelief. The sex scenes were hot for the most part if not a bit...fetishy. (Hey, dont judge me)
The story itself was ok. The story moves very quickly but because of that there is no real character development and thus losing my interest in the characters. The dialog for the most part comes off as really campy and left me rolling my eyes in disbelief. The sex scenes were hot for the most part if not a bit...fetishy. (Hey, dont judge me)
January 4, 2015
Como siempre que leo Bobby Michaels, me quedo con una sonrisa cuando termino sus historias. Aquí tenemos a Brian y Thomas que junto con el pequeñito de Tiger hacen una familia preciosa y transmiten un amor tan lindo que se puede pasar toda la historia diciendo Aww... Muy recomendable.
May 27, 2013
I enjoyed this so much more the second time around.
Although at times the dialogue is almost adolescent it works within the insta-love storyline.
Although at times the dialogue is almost adolescent it works within the insta-love storyline.
November 20, 2019
1.5☆
I'm not a fan off insta-love
While this story wasn't bad persé
I wasn't feeling it..
everything happend just so fast
there was no built up
It went from 1 date/work dinner
to moving in together and getting "married"
Also Brian ..
I think I would have liked the story better if it was longer and more showing instead of telling.
I'm not a fan off insta-love
While this story wasn't bad persé
I wasn't feeling it..
everything happend just so fast
there was no built up
It went from 1 date/work dinner
to moving in together and getting "married"
Also Brian ..
I think I would have liked the story better if it was longer and more showing instead of telling.
August 22, 2017
Otro libro de Bobby Michaels que me ha encantado. Siempre que leosus historias tengo una sonrisa en mi cara. En este en particular tenemos a Thomas y Brian junto con Tiger que forman una familia hermosa, fue una lectura increiblemente rapida, no me resulto tediosa en ningun momento. Es una historia recomendable si te gusta el genero.
February 5, 2018
There's an unreality to this book you have to put aside and just go with it if not, it's literally like for real guys let's be realistic or real world calling that shit don't happen
February 18, 2013
"BOBBY MICHAELS! GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE AND FINISH THIS BOOK"- is what I thought when I reached the last page. I was reading it on my kindle and as soon as Ted and Dalt found Tiger in his room I glanced at the progression bar and realized we were just a few chapters from the end of the book and all I could think was "How the hell do you end a book with one of the most important characters' story line cut short?" I loved this book up until that point. The story was wholesome and I would have given it a five if it were complete, but there was just too much missed.
October 20, 2012
I enjoyed Tommy and Brian's story. The quick I love you's, and how everything falls into place so easily, can get my eyes rolling but those aspects are very characteristic of Bobby's books and I knew that before purchasing. I still enjoyed it. If you need a does of Happily-Ever-After than you will probably enjoy this one.
December 2, 2012
Ugh. Boring as hell. I liked the sex scenes though, mostly. I still like Bobby and will continue to get his stuff, but this was too sappy, too fast, too boring. It was crap and it went on forever. I skimmed through the second half just to get it done. It's pretty much over in the middle anyway. Sorry Bobby! I still love you though!
June 3, 2012
A seven year old hit an over the fence homer and made a double play? That is your first year in true little league and out of T-ball. Is kid must be the next Derek Jeter? Aside from that everything happened way too fast.
November 27, 2014
This is only my second Bobby story, and I gotta say I love that his characters have smell fetishes. It's normally only something I find in shifter books and it's never as intimately described as it is in these. Love it.
October 23, 2008
Rock Paper Scissors by Bobby Michaels (2008)
February 19, 2012
This is what's called really syrupy, but I love it. It's the kind of book you need to be in the right mood to read.
May 10, 2012
I feel bad that there will be no more sequel to this as Bobby Michaels has passed away. :-c This is one of my favorite stories along with second time around.
no-read-or-dnf
August 5, 2015DNF Simply not a book for me, it just didn´t work. Sad, as I love books witch children.
May 8, 2013
DNF
Love at first sight is not my thing but this was love at first sight completely over the top. I had never seen things move so fast in my entire life and it was completely unbelievable.
Love at first sight is not my thing but this was love at first sight completely over the top. I had never seen things move so fast in my entire life and it was completely unbelievable.
October 24, 2018
I enjoyed reading this book - it has interesting characters with an entertaining story. Lots of hot, raunchy sex too (the author did not hold back)!
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December 5, 2016DNF
This book is way too sweet and mushy for me to continue. I liked the beginning but when the second MC makes his appearance the water works broke out and I couldn't continue.
This book is way too sweet and mushy for me to continue. I liked the beginning but when the second MC makes his appearance the water works broke out and I couldn't continue.
December 20, 2012
I liked this book but realize that it is still a flu romance novel even if it is m/m romance.
February 19, 2013
una historia muy hermosa sobre el amor y la familia que uno hace
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