Husband material

First Title Value for Searching:

Husband material

Personal Author:

Hall, Alexis J.

Physical Description:

422 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

London calling ; 2

General Note:

Sequel to : Boyfriend material.

Genre:

Love stories.

Humorous fiction.

Summary:

"Sequel to Alexis Hall's breakout Boyfriend Material, Husband Material is a hilarious LGBTQIA+ rom-com about life, love, marriage, and everything in between. Luc and Oliver may have found their happily ever after, but that doesn't mean it's all smooth sailing from here. Faced with friends getting married everywhere they look, Luc feels the social pressure to propose...but as they survive four weddings and a funeral, Luc and Oliver will have to come to grips with what their own happily ever after was truly meant to be"--

Subject Term:

Gay men -- Fiction.

Weddings -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Romance fiction

Publication Info:

Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca, [2022]

Subject:

Gay men -- Fiction.

Weddings -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Romance fiction

Love stories.

Humorous fiction.

Gay fiction.

Gay males

Gay people, Male

Homosexual males

Homosexual men

Homosexuals, Male

Male gay people

Male homosexuals

Urnings

Human relations

Interpersonal relationships

Personal relations

Relations, Interpersonal

Relationships, Interpersonal

Social behavior

Love stories

Romances (Love stories)

Romantic fiction

Romantic stories

SAILS ISBN:

9781728250922

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Searching... Norfolk Public Library	F HALL, A. LONDON V2	FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Norton Public Library	FIC HAL LONDON V2	FICTION	Searching... Unknown
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Summary

An Instant USA Today Bestseller!

"Our favourite chaos demon & stern brunch daddy return in this delicious, ridiculous, and often poignant romcom about all the ways love can grow." --Talia Hibbert, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

WANTED: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best

In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends...and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. But it'll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a hotly contested rainbow balloon arch to get these two from "I don't know what I'm doing" to "I do".

Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL.

"Brilliance on every single page."--Christina Lauren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, for Boyfriend Material

"The apotheosis of the rom-com."--Entertainment Weekly, A+ Review, for Boyfriend Material

"Every once in a while you read a book that you want to SCREAM FROM ROOFTOPS about. I'm screaming, people!"--Sonali Dev, award-winning author, for Boyfriend Material

"FAKE DATING, REAL FEELINGS, BEST JOKES."--Olivia Waite, award-winning author, for Boyfriend Material

"Fresh and vibrant."--Annie Carl, The Neverending Bookshop (Edmonds, WA), for Boyfriend Material

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Set two years after rom-com sensation Boyfriend Material, Hall's unnecessary sequel sends reformed wild child Luc O'Donnell and his straitlaced boyfriend, Oliver Blackwood, to four weddings and a funeral. The first nuptials belong to Luc's BFF, Bridget, and strained comedy ensues when she fears her fiancé, Tom, is cheating on her. Next, Luc gets invited to his ex's wedding, which fuels his anxiety but provides an opportunity for closure. It also inspires Luc to first accidentally, then properly, propose to Oliver. A work colleague's wedding comes third, and feels the least integral to the plot. Much of the book's humor comes across as forced, from Luc's disastrous cooking to a running gag about a photocopier. But there is real drama as both Luc and Oliver grapple with their complicated relationships with their respective fathers, one of whom unexpectedly dies. And the heart of the story is Luc and Oliver's debate about their own wedding, which stems from their differing styles of expressing love. The banter between them is strong as ever, and fans of book one will be glad to see them again, but the frothy, episodic plot contains so much filler that it's difficult to invest in. This lacks the magic that made Boyfriend Material feel so special. Agent: Courtney Miller-Callihan, Handspun Literary. (Aug.)

Kirkus Review

A London couple navigates the highs and lows of weddings and even a funeral in this sequel to Boyfriend Material (2020). Two years after the events of that book, reformed bad boy Luc O'Donnell and Oliver Blackwood, his buttoned-up barrister boyfriend, have settled into something resembling domestic bliss. There's still an opposites-attract push and pull between them, but they've found a way to balance each other out. Now, with several wedding celebrations on their social calendar and an unexpected funeral to contend with, the couple is put into a pressure cooker of stressful situations. From running into old exes to dealing with their sneaky feelings of grief, Luc and Oliver will have their work cut out for them if they're going to make it through with their relationship intact. Luc and his issues take more of the focus, as he hems and haws over proposing to Oliver--especially after a terrible ex-boyfriend announces his own engagement. It never feels like the couple is in any real danger of splitting up, though, which raises the question of why they needed a sequel at all. While revisiting much-loved characters can leave fans feeling warm and fuzzy, this material would have been better off as a series of bonus stories rather than a full-length continuation of Luc and Oliver's relationship. While a happily-ever-after doesn't stop when a couple realizes their feelings for one another, this book feels more like an excuse to put the pair into a variety of loosely connected one-off situations than a fully fledged novel. A fine but unnecessary sequel. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.