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

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I found that it actually gave me butterflies in my stomach and it’s been a long time since a book did that. Okay, I’ll give you that Wuthering Heights is the least romantic book in the history of Victorian romances, but Jane Eyre? Friday the first was definitely a date that had been cemented in her mind for months as she prepped for the Fitz show.

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. 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. She holds a Master’s degree in teaching and loves coffee, arranging her books by color, and cold weather. Both grew up in some sense of isolation and with a mother/step mother that is frankly an insane stepford wife wannabe. While I love small town romances I'm not always a fan of the ways in which they ask characters (often women) to give up certain passions or wants - it's why Emily Henry's Book Lovers is such a triumph - but Delilah Green Doesn't Care thankfully doesn't fall into that trap.

She was so sweet and caring, and she's been through so much :( She's a single mother, a very admirable one. There’s a lot going on in Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, including some Bridesmaids-style hijinks involving champagne glass towers, but I think what struck me most forcibly about its storytelling is its generosity. Every single piece of information in this book is well-rounded and serves a purpose in getting us to know the characters and their struggles and how they came to be the way they are. Everyone was just on pointe and you feel completely transported into this small town among this interesting group of characters. All of that said, I thought Delilah and Claire had a lot of chemistry, and I actually loved Astrid's character from the start, so I'm very eager to read the next book and see her get the love she deserves.

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? All of which is to say that I personally (and I am speaking purely personally here) can often find reading queer romance quite an alienating experience. It meant that both narrators would experience a scene entirely differently so it was really fun switching between POV’s. Delilah had been back to Bright Falls five or six times in the past twelve years-a few Christmases and Thanksgivings, a funeral when her favorite art teacher had died. other than making the book pointlessly long and overwritten, it also felt really condescending and corny.Sliding on the robe, she went into the small living room-slash-open kitchen and climbed onto a stool, resting her elbows on the cool marble counter. Thankfully, it didn't end up being such a large part of the overarching plot of the book so as to be a dealbreaker, but I definitely cringed when this trope cropped up.

They saw the world and the people around them differently based on their life and previous experiences with them which was really interesting.So I’m happy to say that although Delilah Green was not the new favourite I hoped for, it still definitely lived up to the hype. 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. Unfortch, both love interests in this repeatedly say their relationship is "just sex," which means the romance only comes from smut.