Delilah Green Doesn't Care: A swoon-worthy, laugh-out-loud queer romcom

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And, now I come to think of it, there’s the fact an entire subplot concerns Astrid (Delilah’s sister and Claire’s best friend) and her impending marriage to a dreadful cishet guy. claire, too, had her little flaws, but i saw a lot of myself in her, especially on things concerning her bisexuality and motherhood.

It made me feel so happy and seen and spoken to as a queer person that I literally hugged my kindle to my chest on several occasions while I was reading it. There was even a well written kid character and a well done ex character which both can be pretty rare in sapphic books. They saw the world and the people around them differently based on their life and previous experiences with them which was really interesting. Having sung the praises of AHB's MG and YA titles for so many years now, nobody is more disappointed than me to say that this book was a struggle. The part where we explore Delilah’s childhood, including her relationship with her family, was what I was genuinely interested in.Shit," Astrid said, her tone regretful and irritated at the same time, as though Delilah had made her forget that Isabel had been Delilah's sole guardian after her father, Isabel's second husband, had died of an aneurysm when Delilah was ten years old.

Not my favourite trope by any stretch of the imagination, since it just serves to breed miscommunication (another trope I do not like).In particular, Delilah, Claire, and Astrid - who I didn't expect to like but really ended up loving - were all very well developed characters, and the relationships between them were similarly fleshed out and realistic. And let’s not forget the snappy banter and seriously scorching chemistry; you’ll need a very cold shower after this read! She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all. Though they've known each other for years, they don't really know each other - so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. Delilah dropped the phone to her chest while Jax drifted into her thoughts for the first time in a while.

She pushed Claire's front door closed before crowding into her space, hands on Claire's hips and her mouth bumping up against Claire's bottom lip as she spoke. Their relationship is allowed to be confusing and complicated, but I really enjoyed the portrayal of their tentative reconciliation. The setting, the scheming, the spice - Ashley Herring Blake paints every scene with a lyrical, tender brush. I'm all for creative hobbies but, I can't lie, I don't really care about characters whose true passion is that 🙊. Clearly this lacks insight to see how damaging that actually is to their child and Claire and was instead used as a convenient tension plot point.Also, although I understand that there is going to be backstory to Claire's divorce and co-parenting, the drama with Josh was just so irritating. Contemporary romances are what I reach for most when I'm in a major reading slump or I'm feeling a bit down and I want to read something that's guaranteed to have a happy ending. I was looking forward to reading a sapphic romance, but I’ve read novellas that had more of an impact. Snarky, steamy, and swoony in equal measure, I never wanted this book to end, but there’s an easy momentum to Blake’s writing that made it impossible to put down.