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

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Delilah was the one who was all alone and lonely and then these people have the audacity to speak shit to her. When she's not writing or reading, she's wrangling her two young sons, falling into Pinterest holes, drinking coffee, taking walks, or trying to figure out which Orphan Black clone she likes best.

And let’s not forget the snappy banter and seriously scorching chemistry; you’ll need a very cold shower after this read! Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls - nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. and why the fuck did Iris and Claire and Astrid have to behave so fucking badly towards her when they were young? She was left out of many friend groups when she was younger, so she packed and moved out as soon as she could, following her passion for photography. I know I’ve discussed the queerness of queer romance in various other reviews and let me just make very clear yet again that I am not trying to position myself as any sort of gatekeeper of queerness.Something I loved about their relationship is the way it allowed Delilah to be a far better step-parent than her stepmother was to her. Is that the one where the douchebag hid his wife away in the attic and then lied about it to the girl he wanted to bang who was, like, half his age?

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.

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. I loved the small-town feel, and especially the way in which Blake wrote it so that there was no homophobia. 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. I have been highly anticipating this book ever since the cover was announced because, honestly, who could resist such a pretty cover?

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. Friday the first was definitely a date that had been cemented in her mind for months as she prepped for the Fitz show. Long seconds that made Delilah wonder if she was still there, but she wasn't going to be the one to crack. She'd had lovers she'd seen for multiple days, even weeks, before one of them broke it off for some amiable and practical reason.Thankfully, the audiobook narrator was fantastic and I gradually was drawn in enough to give the story a solid chance. Both our main characters yearned for love and connection in different ways and I loved seeing them find that in each other. I'm all for creative hobbies but, I can't lie, I don't really care about characters whose true passion is that 🙊. Ashley Herring Blake draws her characters with such beautiful, loving depth, and infinite compassion for the many ways relatives and friends can both hurt and heal each other.

For Delilah, there is internal conflict related to how she perceives herself due to the ill treatment of her step mother. I've been on a bit of a contemporary romance binge since I got a kindle a couple months ago so this book fit in absolutely perfectly! 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? Delilah Green Doesn't Care is the first in a new series that centers the relationship between tattooed photographer Delilah and her step-sisters best friend Claire. This is such a pet peeve of mine, as a lesbian, since I feel like the refusal to use the word (particularly in contemporary romances) when it's applicable feeds into the problematic idea that 'lesbian' is a dirty word.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. Delilah nodded and she kissed her - once, twice, soft and sweet that in no way indicated that she was expecting to fall into bed immediately. The setting, the scheming, the spice—Ashley Herring Blake paints every scene with a lyrical, tender brush.

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