An old friend who works in a bookstore knows that I love, love, love Alexis Hall and gave me Father Material pre-release, which makes me wonder if even more good things could come my way if I were less anti-social.
Hall's London Calling books, of which this is the third in the series, are not my favorites of his. They're a little less boisterous and a lot more staid than many of his other series. Father Material is no exception. We continue to follow the adventures of Luc, a super annoying manchild trying to be more of a man and less of a child, and constantly telling everyone about it, and his life partner Oliver, who is a stick-in-the-mud. The first third of the book I was like, Luc, you suck so much, even though you know it, and do I really need to read pages and pages about sleep training a dog? But when Luc and Oliver decide to become foster parents to an unhappy teen, the book gets kind of great. As a parent myself I one hundred percent cheered for Luc as he called out all the bullshit school meetings he had to go to and said out loud what every parent (with any sense) thinks. Oliver came into his own as the never-going-to-be-the=favorite-parent-but-still-doing-great-things-for-the-kid.
If you're not already an Alexis Hall fan, this is not not the book to start with. I like his Something Fabulous series the best, but I'm a huge Regency romance fan. If you're more into contempory romance, the How to Bang a Billionaire series is great.
You can read my reviews of some of his other books here:
Boyfriend Material and Husband Material (the first two books in the London Calling series).
Something Fabulous.
A Lady for a Duke (probably his best book to date) and Something Spectacular
Something Extraordinary, along with Glitterland, Waiting for the Flood, and For Real
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