#boyfriend material alexis hall

[stardustcasti]

Things I can't wait for and need like, right now: A Fandom related (incomplete?) List.

Rykter season 4 (!!!)

There is no specific release date, but what we know is '2025' and 'soon' so hopefully January?

Silverborn

Releases on the 8th (-ish) of May next year

The sequel to Boyfriend/Husband Material

Planned to be released on March 2026

UniteUp! Season 2

Winter '25 - January

The Senpai was Otokonoko sequel Movie

I don't think there is any release date for this one other than winter '25, so January- March?

(Although I finished the webtoon I REALLY want to see it animated!)

Enola Holmes 3??

*checking the release date since my friend told me but I forgot*

Planned to be released on 2025

The Dragon Prince season 7

The 19th of December '24 - this one is the closet

(I don't NEED it but I certainly WANT it)

No Need to mention The Vengeance Saga, and it's in, like, 13 days.

[catzeatyerface]

Boyfriend Material really could have used an extra chapter of fluff at the end for a more satisfying ending.

[appljuiceboxx]

i fucking SCREAMED when i saw this in my inbox ad sf fgizd hidgfjks fjksdjk my grandparents were like WHAT THE FUCK

[lily-s-world]

I had never analyze it that way, but it is so true.

Red, White & Royal Blue made me fall in love with Alex and Henry falling in love despite hating each other.

Boyfriend Material made me fall in love with Luc and Oliver falling in love with each other despite hating themselves.

[thequeerbouquiniste]

Queer romance recs for the summer

Summer is here and I know many like to read more lighthearted books during that time, so here are some queer romances I've really enjoyed and that I think are perfect for the summer.

Anything by F.T. Lukens. Most specifically, those I've read are So This Is Ever After, In Deeper Waters, and Otherworldly. If you're looking for cute queer romantasy novels to read this summer, look no further. F.T. Lukens' books are fun and lighthearted even when they deal with heavier topics, and they contain mlm, mlnb, and nb rep.

Running Close to the Wind by Alex Rowland. I've talked about this book before and I'll probably talk about it many more times because I adored it. It's hilarious and refreshing even though it handles some heavy topics, so if you like pirates, accidental treason, and dirty jokes, this book is perfect for you. In terms of representation, it has polyamory rep, various sexualities, and intersex (if I remember correctly) and non-binary rep.

Gwen and Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher. This book is an adorable, fun romance set in a historical setting inspired by Arthurian times. It's perfect if you're looking for not one but two forbidden romances, banter and adventure, humour, and wlw and mlm rep.

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake. I remember I absolutely loved this book when I read it during the summer a couple of years ago, and my feelings after two years are still the same. This book is an adult romance novel (with one or two sex scenes) with vivid and complex characters, amazing sapphic rep, and a fantastic romance. Even better, it's a completed trilogy, and though I've yet to read the two other books, I'm sure they're great too.

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. You've probably already heard of this one, and it is a book I've really enjoyed. Carry On is fun and captivating, and reads easily.

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick. A cute love story inspired directly from the real-life romance between the authors (who are married, if I'm not mistaken), and a great way to cheer yourself up.

Café con Lychee by Emery Lee. I read this book a couple years ago already, but it was super cute and it read so easily that I finished it in a day. If you're looking for a light-heared, coming-of-age mlm romance, then this is the book for you.

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. Last but not least, one of my favourite books from last year. Boyfriend Material is a hilarious mlm romance that somehow manages to be a light read even though it deals with some dark topics. The characters are amazing, their relationship and how it develops even more so, and this book was an immediate favourite for me. Some people have disliked the sequel, Husband Material, but I loved it just as much, and the third and final book is due to come out some time next year.

[helpmeimblorboing]

Queer romances and having that one line that just absolutely shreds your heart

Patrochilles and “He is the other half of my soul, as the poets say”

Wilmon and “All the people are fake, they're made of metal. but i like you and that is not fake”

First Prince and “History, huh ? Bet we could make some”

OliverLuc and “I am conscious this could be rather burdensome to hear, but you remain the thing I have most chosen for myself. “

Narlie and “ sometimes people need more support than just one person can give. That's love, darling”

[skygemspeaks]

Boyfriend material au where luc decides early on that he's never going to be able to live an anonymous life, so instead he just sets out to become even more famous than his dad.

He gets into acting, ends up becoming super famous, and the first time he sees an article that refers to Jon Fleming as "the father of popular actor Lucien O'Donnell" instead of the other way around, he laughs so hard his stomach hurts, and immediately screenshots the headline to send to his mom

Meanwhile oliver is still a barrister and all his coworkers think he's just the most boring person on the face of the earth. He prefers to keep his personal and professional lives separate, so he never talks about his husband. Then one year he goes as Luc's date to the oscars and when his coworkers see him on tv they freak the fuck out and start spamming the work group chat like "!!!???!?!?!?!??!????!!!??"

[zackstriker]

i know it’s not the genre of book they typically read but i need dnp to read Alexis Hall’s novels ASAP

[rosemarytales]

tbh I think the venn diagram of merthur shippers and "boyfriend material" by alexis hall fans should be a circle, it's merthur fanfic in spirit

[danieljradcliffe]

I need y’all to read Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall and come scream with me so I won’t be the singular member of the fandom thanks so much

[lovinglampcalzonepalace]

[pemberlaey]

Moodboard: luc & oliver

“what are you eating? it looks like spunk with fruit in it.” “thank you lucian. you always know exactly what to say.”

[dont-luc-back-in-anger]

there's nothing better than cozying up in bed with fairy lights, sipping tea and reading Alexis Hall novels 🍵💫

[hussyknee]

I take the fact that so many people absolutely hated Husband Material absurdly personally. But honestly, even if it wasn't one my favourite books, the hate for it so fucking over the top. There's people on Goodreads and Amazon reviews swearing in that it put them off ever reading another Alexis Hall novel, that it made them give all of Hall's books away, that some sequels should never be written, that they want to set it on fire. It's unhinged.

There are books I've wanted to set on fire too, but only because they're abuse apologist (Twilight), grossly racist or ableist (A Little Life) or overblown trash written for people who hate the genre that has come to the forefront of it (Bridgerton). Not because the couple didn't get married at the end, or the privileged straight-conforming dude wasn't woobified enough.

Alexis Hall is a superlative writer— the Spires series is incredible, I've read the Arden St. Ives trilogy three times, and of course Boyfriend and Husband Material are among my favourite books of all time. But I don't like all his books either. IMO, Lady for A Duke was lazy and disappointing, Something Fabulous was just a pair of self-centred nitwits abusing a socially awkward guy until he felt he deserved it, I didn't even bother with Something Spectacular, Murder Most Actual was cringe, I didn't like anybody in 10 Things That Never Happened. But, and in the full acknowledgement that there might be a level of hypocrisy involved in me being the one to say this: FFS take a chill pill.

[skygemspeaks]

finished reading boyfriend material and i can't stop thinking about christopher saying that oliver in the past has chosen his boyfriends based on whether he thinks their parents would approve of them and how that naturally extends to his friends as well

Because there's something so very pointed about the fact that he so perfectly fits the "non-threatening gay" stereotype, and the fact he doesn't have any gay friends.