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

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For Delilah, there is internal conflict related to how she perceives herself due to the ill treatment of her step mother. The setting, the scheming, the spice - Ashley Herring Blake paints every scene with a lyrical, tender brush.

Another issue I had was that this book, where the titular character is pretty clearly a lesbian, only uses the word 'lesbian' one time, and in a joking context at that.

Her weird sexual relationship with her baby daddy didn’t make sense as apparently “no casual sex” is a major character cornerstone for her - so why is she sleeping with him when she knows they don’t love each other anymore and they never pursue a rekindling of their romantic relationship anyway? She pulled the phone from her ear and hit the speakerphone button, then checked the date on her calendar app-Saturday, June 2. This was a fun but also emotional romance, filled with characters I couldn't help but love, that also explored complicated family relationships. Other than the attraction maybe, but by page 200, there should have been some substance to this attraction. The actual plot here concerns Delilah Green, a thirty-ish photographer, currently trying to make it in NYC having fled the small town where she grew up.

I’ll be skipping the rest of this series, which is a shame since I was hoping this would be a winner. Her stepsister didn't say anything for a few seconds, but the silence was long enough for Delilah to know she'd be on a morning flight out of JFK.Delilah was the one who was all alone and lonely and then these people have the audacity to speak shit to her. i mean, i'm directing this towards you, Astrid and Iris - did y'all forget she was an actual person with actual feelings? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World was a Stonewall Honor Book, as well as a Kirkus, School Library Journal, NYPL, and NPR Best Book of 2018. I really enjoyed the romance - Blake hit a good balance between sweet and sexy, and Claire and Delilah felt believable as a couple for me (I was rooting for them!

When they're forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations - including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiance - Claire isn't sure she has the strength to resist Delilah's charms. That’s A LOT of trauma and emotion, none of which is explored with any sense of meaning and purpose. It wasn't necessarily the deepest, most nuanced and realistic romance, but that's not what I require from a cute contemporary romance. I have said many times that I'm not a romance reader who likes when the smut carries the love story. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care is the dreamy, steamy, utterly satisfying answer to your craving for an outcast-and-former-mean-girl romance, with complicated step-family relationships thrown in for extra delight.Okay, fine, there might have been several unanswered texts in Delilah's messages, but in her defense, she was a useless sack of skin lately, with another month's rent looming and preparing for the Fitz show, at which her work only appeared because she knew the owner, Rhea Fitz, a former fellow waitress whose dead grandmother left her enough money to open her own gallery. The past few weeks had been a scramble of waiting tables part-time at the River Café in Brooklyn and working freelance portrait jobs and weddings, all of which barely paid enough to cover her apartment and food. Iris thinks Delilah is weird and has since childhood, when in fact Iris is a bully and it's weird we are supposed to like her, when she tortured Delilah as an adolescent and still talks to her in the exact same way and generally does not appear to have changed very much.

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