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Alexis Hall

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From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a delightfully witty romance featuring a reserved duke who’s betrothed to one twin and hopelessly enamoured of the other.

Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally.

It was always his father’s hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up…romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine’s proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again.

Arabella’s twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure “Bonny” Tarleton, has also grown up…romantic. And fully expects Valentine to ride out after Arabella and prove to her that he’s not the cold-hearted cad he seems to be.

Despite copious misgivings, Valentine finds himself on a pell-mell chase to Dover with Bonny by his side. Bonny is unreasonable, overdramatic, annoying, and…beautiful? And being with him makes Valentine question everything he thought he knew. About himself. About love. Even about which Tarleton he should be pursuing.

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“So beautiful that my throat clenches and my stomach flips when I as much as glance at you, and I wonder how the world turns when such wanting exists within it.”
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“Love is not supposed to be convenient, my flower. It is supposed to be transcendent.”
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“My reluctant flower. It’s a good job you’re such a feast for the eyes because otherwise you’d be completely unbearable. Instead of merely mostly unbearable.”
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“Alexis Hall’s first queer historical, Something Fabulous pays homage to the classic Heyeresque Regency romp while subverting many of its problems…The whole duke archetype is deconstructed piece by piece in a series of comic mishaps unfurled with impeccable authorial control.” —The New York Times

“[A] wonderfully queer mash-up/send-up of buddy movies, Austen novels, and classic rom-coms.” —Publishers Weekly

“Boyfriend Material author Alexis Hall turns his attention to the Regency era in the fun and frothy Something Fabulous.” —POPSUGAR

“Hilarious, gloriously overdramatic, and unputdownable, Something Fabulous needs to be on anyone’s shelf who’s looking for a comfort read that’s one hell of a good time.” —The Nerd Daily

“Enrapturing…Something Fabulous is a romp through-and-through, but it’s also an ode to refusing to live life in any way but that which makes you happy.” —Entertainment Weekly

“This series starter will be excellent for readers with a silly sense of humor.” —Library Journal

“The unabashedly gay Regency romp we all need. Something Fabulous is lighthearted, witty, silly good fun. I absolutely loved it!” —Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author

About the Author

Alexis Hall is determined to marry into money, as his grandfather drank half the family fortune and gambled the rest. He lives in a tumbledown mansion in a fictional county, and his valet doesn’t even have a humorous name.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B096RTMJTG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Montlake (January 25, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 25, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5616 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 363 pages

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- #335 in Gay Fiction
- #643 in Gay Romance

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Alexis Hall is a pile of threadbare hats and used teacups given a semblance of life by forbidden sorcery. He sometimes writes books.

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amf0001

Uneven romance, didn't really work for me

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2022

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I preordered this, that's how big an Alexis Hall fan I am. And then I read the first chapter and was totally disengaged and put it away for months. Finally, after thanksgiving, I needed a break and pulled it out again.

If it wasn't be Alexis Hall I would never have finished it. While Bonny was all that was sweet and frantic and brightly gay, Bella was just awful and actually wanted to create mayhem and maybe even murder. Her behavior was so out of bounds, I started questioning Bonny and his perceptions of the world, he was so on his twin's side (and frankly, Peggy made no sense either, being far too pragmatic to fall for Bella's machinations)

So the main driver of the plot was a fail for me.

Then I had problems with Valentine who was way too unaware for a man of his age, but I gave him a pass because it had a fairy tale quality that kind of worked.

I liked Val and Bonny together and actually liked the last few scenes where Bonny refused not to be the hero of his own life story, but I didn't especially like the journey to get there and was more repulsed by Bella as time went on. She was not a worthy heroine, or even a worthy tragic victim. She came across as bi polar and hysterical and just plain mean. That entire duel scene did not work for me at all!

So mixed results for me. If you haven't read Alexis Hall previously, don't start here. Go to Husband Material. That was excellent!

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Kat

a merry chase

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2022

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I haven't read any other books by this author, but have probably read too many
romances! Reading this book, I became annoyed at all the characters at one time
or another. But I did like Bonny, his sister, Valentine and a few others who are
eccentric, unique, and trying to live their lives. I felt sorry for Valentine because
he had always done the proper thing as he thought he had to and do his duty.
However, lack of communication and no one seems to talk in depth about what
they want until they are forced to brings this book down a star. Some of it is hilarious
and other times awkward. Adults 18+ for steamy slightly erotic scenes. Enjoyed it for
the most part. Worth a read for laughs and if you like a merry chase.

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Kate R.

A romp of a historical romcom with some darker underpinnings

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2022

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Lovely, beautifully-written, hysterically funny, and occasionally incredibly unrealistic in the manner of the genre: things happen as best suits the plot, and it doesn't matter how likely they are, because it makes a good story. The supporting characters were a delight. Also contains some stunningly good descriptions of what it can be like to be demisexual (grey-ace? other aspec?), which alone almost tempts me to bump it back up to five stars.

However, the main conflict unfortunately did not work at all for me. Arabella both relentlessly causes problems and has a very good reason for doing so. She is an untitled, orphaned, impoverished woman trying to avoid marriage to a duke, and Valentine is so completely unaware of his own privileges and so regularly misuses them in his ignorance that her desperation makes sense. Neither angle of this is ignored in the book itself, but it still made it difficult for me to fully sympathize with either of them.

(Valentine's poor behavior isn't limited to Arabella; I love a good repressed nobleman but although this one is clearly unhappy and in a lot of emotional distress he deals a fair bit of collateral damage, including to Bonny. It's not as if I've never lashed out in hurt/confusion myself, but I'm not proud of that tendency in myself and I don't blame Arabella or a potential reader for objecting to it in Valentine.)

SPOILER for the style the HEA takes:

The possibility of a lavender marriage for Valentine (who is after all the Duke of Malvern) is raised and rejected, though the avoidance is justified well. This is here less to review and more to let other readers who have strong opinions on the matter know.

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LadySarcasm79

F$&@ Bridgerton! Netflix please make a series out of this awesomeness!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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This was amazing! So funny. So entertaining! Soooo romantic!! LOVE LOVE LOVE! the personalities of the main characters jump off the page from the get go! And then never stop!!! Honestly didn’t know how the story was going to go for so long! But hell no it wasn’t dragged out at all! Very exciting. Accomplishes easily what others long to do. Makes you fall in love. ❤️❤️

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AGlitterCobra

Meh, it was ok

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2022

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***3.75 Stars***

Overall,

This book was ok, I didn’t absolutely love the characters and the overall story is an interesting regency take on a gay man and a demi sexual duke. I think what made me not love this book was the language used. The writing is fine, but so flowery and while I generally love some good regency error banter I found the excessiveness of this hard to follow sometimes. Between flowery euphemisms and characters that were not exactly likeable I did struggle to get through certain parts of this book. The whole story is medium paced and starts with duke proposing to Miss Tarlington. She then flees that night not wanting to marry and her twin brother enlists the duke on an adventure to find her. All in all, the story had its funny moments but for the most part it was mostly meh to me.

Cover

Definitely eye catching. I love the Mix of the current cartoonish trend with your usual historical romance vibes.

Recommendation

There are not a ton of LGBTQIA historical romance books out there to my knowledge and this book was not bad. It just didn’t suit me. With that said if you enjoy overly flowery regency era language, and want a little something different then your normal duke meets women and falls in love then I would recommend this book to you.

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Tim McCarthy

couldn’t put down!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2023

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I loved this book but it was so unrealistic to the time period. And I hated BELLE, god her character was just the worst and the lack of communication- just the whole time you’re like Jesus this would be so easy to fix if you just talked!!

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Heather

The perfect balance of campy and heartfelt

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2022

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A very silly and chaotic romp through the English countryside! I went into this book for a light hearted silly time and that’s exactly what I got so I’m pleased!

Also, as someone under the asexuality umbrella who fears they will never find love (I’m ✨25✨ Lizzy, I have no money, no prospects, I’m already a burden to my parents) this just made me smile.

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CHS

A couple of good points but not for those who value even-handed treatment of characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 1, 2022

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The book is jammed with banter that is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and I liked the overall premise, hence its two stars - however I had several issues, which progressively ruined the book for me. First, I found both the banter and the narration stilted and wearing after a while, as if the author was unable to use one word if three would do. Second, the twins were annoying, especially Belle, who bordered on unbearable. Third, the characters were ill-drawn and at times critically inconsistent, for example the Duke has apparently evaded scandal and offence his entire life, yet can't seem to avoid insulting others even when he is thinking something else entirely. Fourth, the insults themselves sounded hollow and out of place, as if the author made a list of 'insulting things to say' then shoe-horned them in with little thought to who the characters actually were. Worst of all, for me, were the utter double standards for treatment of people. Were we supposed to sympathise with the dishonest and ever-irritating Belle for lying about being "forced" to marry this "monstrous" Duke (because everybody there seemed to agree he was monstrous, despite him arguably acting well within the standards of the day) whilst at the same time apparently accepting that it was perfectly okay that he was tied to a chair, silenced, threatened with murder at gunpoint and thrown into a cellar - I think it was meant to be okay because he was a man?? Even while this was happening, there was a repeated implication that he'd be no fun until he was out of the closet. Everyone else acted abominably (yet he was the only one we were meant to judge) and there wasn't a woman there who didn't jump to ridiculous conclusions in a heartbeat or take literally everything at face value. It's VERY rare I don't finish a book, especially a queer romance, but I found this too insulting to continue.

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ROROBLUSMUM

There's a reason this got reduced to 99p/c, a week after release: it's not very good or nice.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 4, 2022

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I had expected a bit of a British romp, a farce of a tale, to be taken with a pinch of salt, but I suspected from how quickly Montlake dropped the RRP and then reduced the tale further, a week after release, that it wasn't very good. Sadly, that is the case. It's boring and it's faux and the author states at the start that non-authentic language appears in the tale, so that made it just seem lazy.

I quite liked the Valentine character, who was a bit uptight in the way that an aristocrat of those times, as portrayed in similar novels, can be, but the entire opening scene with the woman - whose name I can't remember already - who he proposed to, was nothing but fluff and repetitive and boring. I couldn't quite see her issue with him, but the author seemed to be hinting at a lot and yet not dropping clues, and then when she did a flit overnight, leaving her irritating brother, apparently the other male lead, to deal with Valentine, I couldn't take any more. Both siblings came across as entitled and self serving, and there are better and more interesting books out there, with nicer characters, so I left it here.

7 people found this helpful

Mrs Book and Book junior

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 12, 2022

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The foreword in this warns that it is written in old fashioned language as it is supposed to be a queer imagining of a 19th century novel. Most of the language was pretty modern and many of the scenes were gratuitous. I admit to have not read much erotica before, however the description of arse licking in this is more graphic than most of the oral sex scenes I have read before and my understanding is this is classed as romance rather than erotica. The story is paltry and too neatly tied up, and to be honest I didn't care about the characters. I'm not really sure why I finished this book, but it had a couple of good bits, like the conversation Valentine had with his mum and Peggy as a character but otherwise it wasn't worth the read.

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BevS

Another Alexis Hall hit for me...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 7, 2022

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Having read AND listened to nearly everything Alexis has written over the years [I would read one of his shopping lists...honest], I was chuffed to bits when I saw that Nicholas Boulton [Glitterland/Prosperity] was doing the audio for this, he is AMAZING!! The story I also sort of loved : Regency romp, plenty of laughs, beautiful words from Alexis...what's not to like? Unfortunately, I found that the middle of the story which was set around the Misses Fairfax and Evans' cottage, Valentine being tied to a chair and then kept in the basement, and that awful attention-seeker Arabella Tarleton [grr!! 😡😠😡] completely threw me off and I did wonder whether I was going to continue...but of course, I did.

I was very happy at the end for the lonely 'Flower' and his beautiful but excitable man Bonny 🥰🥰. I loved most of the characters, especially Sir Horley Comewithers [I kid you not], Peggy [who was a girl some of the time...and I understand Peggy's story comes after this one] and the very droll but funny Periwinkle [Valentine's valet]. All in all, a great listen and 4.5 stars from me.

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15pete

A reader should care about at least one of the characters - sadly I didn't

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 27, 2022

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I gave up on this novel after realising that I found every character annoying and irritating and the plot twists repetitive and therefore failed to drive the narrative. But most of all, I neither liked nor cared about any of the characters, - the twins had no redeeming features whatsoever and I just wanted it to be over. I tried my hardest, honestly, but it was utterly charmless and the whole thing deeply, deeply frustrating and ultimately dismally disappointing.

Every now and then it was so obviously over the top and knowingly absurd - which worked very well but in that case I think Alexis Hall should have made it clearer that absurdity was the intention and so decided whether it was to be either a sly regency-pastiche or a rollicking romp - one or the other, but together they didn't mix well and so missed the mark. Perhaps if there had been one, likeable, character who pointed this out and brought the reader with them it might have worked?

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