Husband Material (London Calling Book 2)

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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. Nothing about this book worked for me. There was no character growth, the primary conflict was poorly developed and introduced far too late in the book, and the ending was unsatisfying. Summus.” Everybody laughed except me. Because I went to a state school. The annoying thing was I could probably work out why it was supposed to be funny from context. I mean it was a pirate joke. There’s only two endings to a pirate joke, and one of them is just an attempt to subvert the original ending. I've been at this for a long time. I got a slightly bigger profile a year and a half ago now. And as a result, I suddenly got a bunch of offers that I was terrified to say no to so, I was suddenly doing lots and lots and lots and lots of things," he said. This book would’ve been better off making up productions that weren’t actively playing at the time of this story. But that’s just theatre nerd in me raising an eyebrow at that entire sequence of events. You might say, “it’s not that deep!!” and maybe it isn’t. But this book takes a very hard stance on many topics (which I normally wouldn’t mind, but this book really tries to hit you over the head with them at every turn where it starts sounding like you’re being condescended to after a certain point)…well, then I’m going to start pointing stuff out that this book might want to sit down and reflect on too.

FAKE DATING, REAL FEELINGS, BEST JOKES."—Olivia Waite, award-winning author, for Boyfriend Material 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. boyfriend material was an immediate five-star read—which is an incredibly rare occurrence because i only give five stars based on some kind of instinctive primal gut feeling of worthiness—and, to my dismay, husband material was so profoundly awful and disappointing that it actually might have killed some of that magic for me.

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Over-the-top romcom bullshit like a publishing company booking an author’s book tour in New York, Texas; Los Angeles, Texas; and Las Vegas, New Mexico isn’t funny, it’s exhausting. This whole book is way too convinced of its own cleverness and would be substantially improved by deleting 90% of the “clever” lines and references. When I first heard of this book I wrote a little sentence here. "Maybe I'll finally get the ending I craved in book one." You really do own your illiteracy, don’t you?” “Yeah, I’m thinking about moving to America and running for public office.”

Even the rainbow debate is another way Luc makes things about himself. Oliver can’t have feelings about his own identity that are just for him, they must be a commentary on Luc. Born in England, Alexis Hall is an English novelist who’s good at writing urban fantasy, science fiction, and m/m romance. Alexis Hall is a pseudonym, and it has been used for nearly a decade. Sometimes, Alex will also go by Alexis J. Hall (AJH) for fun. He doesn’t work as a full-time writer, instead, he has a day job that he also loves pretty much. Alexis has held a variety of jobs, such as ice cream maker, fortune teller, lab technician, and professional gambler. Cover Revealed for 'Husband Material' by Alexis Hall". Nerds & Beyond. 4 September 2021 . Retrieved 19 April 2022. You may now kiss Boyfriend Material on it's pretty (...probably more like above average, but it's what on the inside that counts) cover.But somethings have changed. Bridge and Tom are getting hitched and guess who is the maid of honor? Lucien. Haha. another thing that bothered me is that Luc has zero, and i absolutely mean zero, personal growth from book one

but okay fine, i can look past this, i am cool - or so i thought. until it came to the great rainbow arch debate this was... one of the worst books i've ever read. i'm so sorry. the prose is totally fine. the characters are, i suppose, true to themselves from the first book. This is essentially the first half of the book. The second half is born out of Luc’s reaction to the events I just mentioned. Cue mysterious song. I don’t know, Alex.” I thought it only fair that I go through the full joke-recipient routine. “What does a Roman pirate say?”With their side characters and main characters, Hall's books demonstrate the spectrum of queerness, which is what he was always interested in writing. It still would have been a three-star book. An Alexis Hall book that I’m not 100% loving still tends to be a thoroughly enjoyable thing. But then came the ending. And… well. I hated it? I hated it a lot. I didn’t hate it as much as my most-hated wedding plot ever – that questionable honour still goes to Hell’s Bells in season six of Buffy – but it came astoundingly, appallingly close. Make it make sense. It’s as though Luc has pieced together buzzwords he found on the internet to make this word soup of ideas that are ultimately meaningless or nonsensical, or both. In this book, gender identity isn’t handled with care. It’s not respected and instead it’s used as a punchline again and again. And as an agender person, I can say that I’m not impressed. I’m not just a little bit angry and I am just a little bit hurt.