Father Material - Alexis Hall 
I've enjoyed the first two in this series, and other Alexis Hall books. They are never world class, but they are enjoyable and cute. But cliche, predictable and characters that are ridiculous, unbelievable and actually quite one dimensional. And Lucien is mostly a fool in the series.
And Father Material does almost all of the same things in the same way, utterly predictable, everything that happened was entirely predictable, cliche characters, unrealistic things happened. Except one thing. Arguably Lucien turned out to not be the biggest fool of the story this time. (Not including the "villain" of the story, but he was just ridiculous as a character as well, and fool doesn't come close to describing him) He still had Lucien moments, but Oliver was the fool character this time, by being exactly the character you'd expect him to be within the story. Even the foster child was exactly as predictable as you'd expect.
Oliver and Lucien perfectly in character, but Oliver was the fool this time. And then they did learning and developing and becoming better people and everyone lived happily ever after.
I just found it fine, felt like it went on a bit too long at the same time. Easy read. Nice. But twee middle class balls as well.
I've enjoyed the first two in this series, and other Alexis Hall books. They are never world class, but they are enjoyable and cute. But cliche, predictable and characters that are ridiculous, unbelievable and actually quite one dimensional. And Lucien is mostly a fool in the series.
And Father Material does almost all of the same things in the same way, utterly predictable, everything that happened was entirely predictable, cliche characters, unrealistic things happened. Except one thing. Arguably Lucien turned out to not be the biggest fool of the story this time. (Not including the "villain" of the story, but he was just ridiculous as a character as well, and fool doesn't come close to describing him) He still had Lucien moments, but Oliver was the fool character this time, by being exactly the character you'd expect him to be within the story. Even the foster child was exactly as predictable as you'd expect.
Oliver and Lucien perfectly in character, but Oliver was the fool this time. And then they did learning and developing and becoming better people and everyone lived happily ever after.
I just found it fine, felt like it went on a bit too long at the same time. Easy read. Nice. But twee middle class balls as well.
I do not get they hype, it did not work for me as satire or as commentary on trad wife culture. The big twist actually diminished the story and the villain character the author had built the main character to be.
