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. She'd sold a piece or two, sure, but her photography was niche, as one agent had told her while declining to represent her, and niche wasn't an easy sell. Delilah Green Doesn't Care is a dual POV contemporary adult romance, featuring lesbian and bisexual protagonists.

They had this great mix of sweetness and heat that was exactly what you want to see in a good romance. Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls - nothing is there for her except memories of a lonely childhood. I thought they had good chemistry but Claire’s issues with her baby daddy sometimes made me feel she still had real feelings for him too?She twisted the lid off a half-full bottle of gin that sat next to the sink and took a shot, no glass required. 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. It really made the friendship between Claire, Iris and Astrid shine and I loved seeing Delilah find her place in that dynamic.

Delilah stepped into her space, arms on either side of Claire's hips, braced against the counter and hemming her in.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. Not the type of Rom com novel where you have to wait to the last two chapters for the characters to even kiss. She's often spiky and even immature at times, but her behaviour's never irritating because it's so understandable. From the initial tension and flirtation to realising they actually wanted each other was a delight to read. But of course, Delilah’s petty behavior has to be justified, she needs to be validated for trying to ruin a wedding, spill and break champagne towers at events, purposely stress and rile Astrid up when she’s already clearly unhappy, la la la la.

She was so sweet and caring, and she's been through so much :( She's a single mother, a very admirable one. It hadn't, but it had given Delilah an idea for a photo series that had changed her ambition from struggling freelance photographer who barely made rent to successful queer artist with an amazing apartment in Williamsburg. The book is full of little moments like this, from the profound to the trivial, that make the fictional world the characters inhabit feel familiar and real and—to me, at least—recognisably and undeniably queer. What I got was an MC who is so caught up being incredibly petty and bitter, she tries to ruin her step sister’s wedding events at every turn, she tries to use and discard someone who she knows has suffered heartbreak and has a complicated life with a pre-teen as a single mom, she doesn’t take any accountability for her actions, AND she doesn’t exhibit any self awareness or reflection of how the grief of her losses may have affected how she interacts and treats others until the very very end - and even then, it’s cursory at best.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. 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. A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—from the author of Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail. That’s A LOT of trauma and emotion, none of which is explored with any sense of meaning and purpose.

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. claire, too, had her little flaws, but i saw a lot of myself in her, especially on things concerning her bisexuality and motherhood. Honestly, I think I finally read an f/f book that delivered on that front, because so far the sapphic stories I read were either too tame or not as cute as the m/m books I usually read.A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love – with all its complications. Her family is back in Oregon but she doesn’t go often because she doesn’t have a great relationship with them. Pleasing parents syndrome is a struggle we often see in many books, but Astrid’s struggle in this one felt a bit more unique than others I’ve read.