Boyfriend Material
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.
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To save his job and his fading public image, Luc O'Donnell, son of a notorious rock star, agrees to fake-date a buttoned-up barrister named Oliver. They write down rules. The rules do not last very long.
Yes. Boyfriend Material is the first in Alexis Hall's London Calling series, followed by Husband Material and 10 Things That Never Happened. The series follows Luc O'Donnell across years.
Boyfriend Material is a fade-to-black M/M romcom with low spice, around 1 to 2 out of 5. The humor and emotional development carry the book rather than explicit content.
Boyfriend Material is a fade-to-black M/M romcom with low spice, around 1 to 2 out of 5. The humor and emotional development carry the book rather than explicit content.
Boyfriend Material was written by Alexis Hall, published in 2020 by Red.
Boyfriend Material is 466 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Boyfriend Material takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
Boyfriend Material is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.