I’m not a huge fan of the fake dating trope but I adored this book, which uses it to great effect. Personal growth, hijinks, and sexual chemistry ensue. Their first date is a disaster, but Luc needs a date for the Beetle Drive and Oliver needs a date for a family function, so he agrees to be Luc’s fake boyfriend. Oliver is a barrister who does criminal defense and uses words such as “verisimilitude.” Luc is emotionally and physically messy and Oliver is tidy in every aspect of his life. In an effort to appear more respectable, Luc gets a fake boyfriend, Oliver. This happens just as Luc is coordinating the annual Beetle Drive fundraising dinner. Luc trips on his way out of a party, and the picture ends up in the papers making it seem as though Luc passed out in the gutter instead of being sober and clumsy. As Luc says, “What I tend to say at interviews for other jobs I don’t get is that there isn’t another faeces-based environmental charity that raises more money than we do.” My joy is sparked, people. Its name, I am so happy to tell you, is the Coleoptera Research and Protection Project, which accidentally can be shortened to CRAPP. He works for a non-profit dedicated to saving dung beetles (Nerd Friends, read this link OMG). A lifetime of being scrutinized by the media, plus his dad leaving him and said terrible break-up, left him with massive abandonment and trust issues and low self-esteem despite a great group of friends and a supportive mother.īy the time the book starts, Luc has mostly cleaned up his act. He went through a terrible break-up in college followed by an extensive self-destructive partying period which the paparazzi LOVED. Periodically the paparazzi take an interest in Luc so he’s constantly afraid that anyone he gets close to will sell his story to the papers. His dad, Jon Fleming, abandoned him and his mother when Luc was three. The story is told by Luc, a twenty-eight-year old man who is romantically adrift. Either way you look at it, prepare to laugh and be prepared to swoon. Because it’s all told from one character’s point of view and is focused on that character’s personal and romantic development, it fits the rom-com structure more than romance. Boyfriend Material is a contemporary m/m romance/rom-com set in England. I laughed so hard at this wonderful book, and I cried a little as well. Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance
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