Husband Material has all the amazing elements we’ve come to love about Boyfriend Material. That’s not at all to say that Husband Material isn’t a fantastic book, though, because it absolutely is-again, it all comes back to expectations.

Maybe that was the intention, to show that relationships are about the day-to-day things more so than the bond underlying it all but I guess it left me wanting more. It takes until almost 60% into the book before there is a truly intimate moment between the two of them (and get your mind out of the gutter, I’m not talking about that here), where they talk to each other and communicate about something beyond the antics of their peers or household chores and the likes. However, I did not go into this book with that mindset and thus, what left me feeling a bit disappointed was the lack of Oliver and Luc content in a book that is literally supposed to be about them. If you don’t think of this as a continuation but rather glimpses into Luc and Oliver’s individual growth and the latter ‘short stories’ addressing their relationship, then chances are you’re going to love this just as much as Boyfriend Material, if not more. A friend of mine said that this story reads more like a collection of short stories and I can wholeheartedly agree. Truth be told, it’s been two months since I’ve read this book and I’m still on the fence about my feelings. I rarely say this with confidence but I think I can do it in this case: whether you will enjoy Husband Material or not will entirely depend on what you expect from the novel going in. But it’s going to take a bit more than going to your ex’s wedding-or your best friend’s-before Luc will go from I don’t know what I’m doing to I do. With each new wedding, Luc’s feeling the social pressure to propose to Oliver. Now finally together and trying to make it work, it seems like everyone around them is two steps ahead and getting married.

Husband Material is the much-anticipated sequel to Hall’s Boyfriend Material, in which Luc and Oliver met and pretended to fall in love only to end up falling in love for real.

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