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

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As for Delilah, I loved seeing how her lonely childhood led to an isolated adult life and how she struggled to break those cycles, her childhood traumas were just handled so deftly. So I just started the book and I’m only 30% in and I’m just a little thrown off by how often the author mentions “white cis” people as a way to talk about privilege or something I guess but every character so far has been white and cis so it feels very trynna be woke. I’ve already got myself a copy of Iris Kelly’s, and I’m sure that after I finish it, I’ll move onto Astrid’s. They saw the world and the people around them differently based on their life and previous experiences with them which was really interesting.It felt like the author tried to soften and excuse that with a fairytale ending with lots of pretty words and promises on his end - but I was over it. Thankfully, the audiobook narrator was fantastic and I gradually was drawn in enough to give the story a solid chance. And when they're forced together during the many wedding preparations, Claire isn't sure she has the strength to resist Delilah's charms. 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. James, and Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea (Little, Brown), and the adult romance novels Delilah Green Doesn't Care and Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Berkley).

i almost DNFed this at page 250 but decided to stick it through, and i'm really sad this didn't live up to the hype for me. She squeezed her eyes closed tight, then opened them and stared up at the ceiling, which was covered with those glow-in-the-dark star stickers. 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. While I have never read Blake before, I have a few of her YA books sitting on my Kindle waiting to be read, so when I saw she wrote a sapphic adult romance, I just knew I had to read it. It’s all done in a matter of paragraphs without really diving into each of their own perspectives on their grief.

They had this great mix of sweetness and heat that was exactly what you want to see in a good romance. Fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Talia Hibbert won’t want to miss out on this emotional extravaganza. And when they’re forced together during the many wedding preparations, Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. And let's not forget the snappy banter and seriously scorching chemistry; you'll need a very cold shower after this read! the way she thought no one gave a shit about her so she started trying to stop giving a shit about the world was truly fucking heartbreaking.

It ruins my enjoyment of perfectly fine things, like citrus fruit or two and a half hour torture sessions superhero movies.Her life now is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. The setting, the scheming, the spice--Ashley Herring Blake paints every scene with a lyrical, tender brush. 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.

Long seconds that made Delilah wonder if she was still there, but she wasn't going to be the one to crack. From every single character having their own distinct lives and personalities to the ~RELATIONSHIPS~ between them, this book was perfect.

she also was taken advantage of too many times for my liking by people like Josh (like why the fuck did he not have any retribution at all? I then was thinking maybe enemies to lovers, but that doesn’t really work either -more like indifferent to lovers maybe-. For once it’s actually a gender thing and in Europe you’d never see men kiss each other on the cheeks or cuddle. When Delilah’s estranged stepsister pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a large check, Delilah finds herself back in Bright Falls once more. My only gripe about this book is the use of “the other woman” from Claire and Delilah’s POV which felt slightly odd and the unnecessary, undisguised descriptions of race (always white) when characters were introduced.