Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall

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Title: Boyfriend Material
Author: Alexis Hall
Genre: LGBTQ+
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 427
Date read: May, 2021

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.


Really cute, funny and charming book! I read a large bit of it in the middle of the night while I couldn't sleep, and literally had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing out loud and waking up my husband.

Another faux-romance and totally predictable, but the characters were (mostly) so likeable and (with one notable exception) relatable, that it was a pleasure to read all the same, and I finished the book in no time. I loved Lucien's found family, and how he started to thrive, once he actually started to believe that he deserved it.

I would have preferred a bit more closure regarding Oliver's family, but that's a minor nitpick in an otherwise very satisfying read.