To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship…and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. Now that his dad’s making a comeback, Luc’s back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Luc O’Donnell is tangentially-and reluctantly-famous. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2020. I might still glance at Husband Material but I won’t be rushing out to read it.Hall, Alexis.

I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it, either. Like I said, Boyfriend Material left me a bit cold. I don’t really have much more to say than this, honestly. I liked the repeating gag where Luc tries to tell his coworker a joke, and the coworker just doesn’t get it - very reminiscent of the same gag from The Vicar of Dibley, but one I enjoyed nonetheless. I do love Hall’s dialogue, though, and the friendships in Boyfriend Material are a lot of fun. It really felt like it was just forced in at the end. This isn’t helped by the fact that Hall waits until the last 100 pages or so to deal with Oliver’s issues, after focusing the entire novel on Luc’s. I’m not sure what was leaving me cold about it, except that Oliver felt a little shallow at times. Luc and Oliver’s relationship also didn’t move me that much, to be honest. This seems to be a thing with Hall’s novels, though, in that they’re very long when they don’t necessarily need to be. This was Fine, but it went on for too long - the novel could have been cut by about 50+ pages and it would have flowed so much better. Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened.īut the thing about fake-dating is that it can feel a lot like real-dating. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Unfortunately apart from being gay, single, and really, really in need of a date for a big event, Luc and Oliver have nothing in common. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. He’s a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he’s never inspired a moment of scandal in his life.

Luc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous.

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