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> Genre: Fiction > A delightful British rom-com (Bingo #6)

A delightful British rom-com (Bingo #6)

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

September 26, 2020 by Malin 5 Comments

4.5 stars

#CBR12 Bingo: Reader’s Choice (replaces How-To)

Official book description:

Wanted:

One (fake) boyfriend

Practically perfect in every way

Luc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. 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. Now that his dad’s making a comeback, Luc’s back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything.

To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship…and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He’s a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he’s never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. 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. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened.

But the thing about fake-dating is that it can feel a lot like real-dating. And that’s when you get used to someone. Start falling for them. Don’t ever want to let them go.

A lot of contemporary romances are marketed as rom-coms nowadays, but very few of them actually feel as if they fit the description. Boyfriend Material, on the other hand, is frequently laugh out loud funny (and not just if you went to university with a bunch of British poshos, so parts of this feel terribly familiar) and the plot is even structured as a traditional British rom-com, complete several quirky and supportive secondary characters (one group for each protagonist, with some overlap) and a plot with big third act complications, grand gestures to win the other back and so forth.

Full review on my blog.

Bingo #6: Reader’s Choice (this), Orange (Call Down the Hawk), White Whale (The Rosie Project), Debut (The Ten Thousand Doors of January), No Money (Bellweather Rhapsody)

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Contemporary Romance, funny, LGBTQIA, London, Malin, reader's choice

Malin's CBR12 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Contemporary Romance, funny, LGBTQIA, London, Malin, reader's choice ·
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Comments

  1. Mrs. Julien says

    September 27, 2020 at 8:55 am

    I loved this book and it made me go to Alexis Hall’s back catalogue and made him an autobuy for me.

    Reply
  2. LittlePlat says

    September 27, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    Speaking of Alexis Hall, I just learnt that this is the same person who wrote The Affair of the Mysterious Letter.

    I’m tempted now

    Reply
  3. narfna says

    September 27, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    I loved this book so much.

    Reply
    • Malin says

      September 27, 2020 at 9:26 pm

      I’m pretty sure it’s going to end up in my top 10 books of the year.

      Reply
  4. tillie says

    October 4, 2020 at 7:02 am

    Oh, this is going on my TBR

    Reply

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