Husband Material (London Calling Book 2)

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Finally, the end. Luc and Oliver getting married. oR aRe ThEy?? (spoiler alert: they don't get married and run away from their own wedding because of Heteronormative Societial Expectations, etc.) This could have been a rather sweet realization they worked together better as a non-married couple because external pressure wasn't healthy for them or they had long conversations about what marriage would look like for them. A spin-off novel, following new characters entitled 10 Things That Never Happened, is scheduled for an October 2023 release. [12] [13] Also see [ edit ] cannot wait for Father Material where Luc inevitably out of nowhere will say "Let's have a kid" while Oliver is cleaning the toilet and then they don't talk about it for nine months and five seconds before the surrogate mother delivers the child they are screaming, crying, throwing up, like "actually, i forgot to mention that i don't want kids" and "oh, thank god, me neither" and they have to kill both surrogate mother and child on sight. and then skip into the sunset. the end. Oliver finally being able to air out his frustrations about his family was nice in that he got to start making amends with his brother. And the chat with his uncle was oddly touching, despite the strangeness of the situation where it seems to have come out of left field. he also still has the same insecurities about Oliver leaving him that he had in the first book even though they have been together for two years at this point, but tbh, i get it, cause he's a shitty boyfriend.

A Lady for a Duke," for example, features a trans woman in a Regency era setting, reconnecting with her best friend from whom she had once been separated on a battlefield. "I wanted to write a really angsty, emotions-y, really classic historical romance," Hall said.

Instead, I get the feeling these two have never spoken in their lives. The first time either of them brings up maybe they don't want a wedding or to be married is right beforehand? For Luc, it was the middle of the night before the wedding and he tells his best friend Bridget and not Oliver at all and then decides to go through with the wedding anyway and never once considers talking to Oliver. For Oliver, it's right before their wedding ceremony is meant to start but he, at least, has the decency to tell Luc to his face. Unfortunately, this is regressive Luc we are talking about, so Luc gets incredibly butthurt and throws actual garbage at Oliver who is crying and makes Oliver explain why he doesn't want to get married to Luc when Luc had come to the same realization only hours before! What IS THIS??? It isn't romance and it isn't making me look forward to their next book. As discussed above, Luc fears marriage because of the associated expectations from other people. Luc also admits to Bridge near the end of the book that he proposed to Oliver because he was feeling insecure after his ex’s wedding and wanted to “show or prove” that their relationship was working well. And right before the wedding, he thinks the guests are waiting for him and Oliver to “prove our relationship was just as good as theirs.”

In particular, I found it difficult to get in the romance part of the book when I was quite frankly convinced they were very incompatible together, and also, once again, just.. not very likable. They really started to get on my nerves a little bit. Herman, Lily (31 December 2020). "Don't Sleep On The Best Romance Novels Of 2020". Bustle. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023 . Retrieved 19 February 2022. The queer community in general is under the microscope in society right now, and conversations about what is perceived by others to be acceptable are important for all the varied and diverse LGBTQ community members. Queerness looks different on different people, and despite whatever projections and stereotypes exist in public spaces, there is no one right way to be gay.

surprising to no-one: they actually do not get married. which is a fantastic scene because all of it happens in the very last chapter and Luc considers leaving Oliver in front of the altar, but decides he will just marry him even though he doesn't want to, while Oliver is like "I cannot do this" and Luc even has the audacity to get mad about it. they then announce they are not doing this five seconds before the ceremony and happily skip into the sunset. the end. literally. that's the last line.

We will now pretend that Boyfriend Material is the sole book in this series, as god intended. If anyone objects, speak now or forever hold your peace.Overall, I feel like there’s no point to this book and the ending left me disappointed and a feeling of being lectured to. After putting the book down, I do not feel happy that I have read this, and it left me feeling quite worse for having read it. This book feels more like short stories of disjointed thoughts mashed into a novel length production, but still fails to deliver the coherent story readers were led to believe from the title and the blurb. Boyfriend Material was closed door when it came to sex scenes. This is no different. I went into this book expecting it to also be closed door, so no surprises there even if I felt a tinge of disappointment. It’s really not like this book had anything else going for it. It feels like you barely even see Luc and Oliver on good terms.

Boyfriend Material) landed at the exact right moment for the market to be ready for it,” Hall said.This book is cruel. Nothing about it makes sense. Does Alexis Hall hate us? Did he resent having to write this? I don’t know. I don’t understand anything because I don’t understand this book. Luc is so goddamn immature. this man never thinks before he speaks. or during. or after. Oliver isn't much better cause he also never opens his goddamn mouth. Those two are in their thirties god damn it, you would think they would have enough emotional and cognitive maturity to maybe sit down in advance and go "do we... actually want to get married?" By the way, I blame Luc for this whole thing, since I was totally on Oliver’s side in that Oliver could feel whatever way he wanted to, and he didn’t have to like certain things just because he is gay. That’s ridiculous. Luc should have just let it go and respect that not everyone is the same. This whole book also felt terribly preachy. It was constantly talking about things such as ‘queer identity’ and having to feel represented by the LGBTQ+ community and everything that is associated with it. Luc and Oliver literally kept arguing about it the entire time: I do not think they had even one conversation that did not involve words such as ‘heteronormativity’ or ‘rainbows’ or ‘bad gay’ or whatever. Seriously, they kept having potentially relationship-ending fights over this stuff, and I simply couldn’t help but get annoyed over it all. It was just so… pointless. stupid. fake. boring. And I was so over it.