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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