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fleur____'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Alcohol, Biphobia, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Homophobia and Infidelity
cwbillings's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity
Minor: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Eating disorder, and Dysphoria
lunep's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This was a great book...up until the third act conflict. I was so excited because I was loving it and rooting for Stevie and Iris, they were so cute, so fun, the sex scenes were great, there was angts, but then in the third act conflict Iris lost me. And I feel so mad at myself!! Bc I can think about why she acted the way she acted in a logical way, I understand why she did what she did, but I still think she was unfair to Stevie, and her attitude made me not feel excited at the end 😭😭😭
There were another couple things I didn't love, but I didn't mind that much:
- The way Adri didn't get any accountability ever. I'm sorry but she was a shitty friend/ex, and I know ending long friendship like theirs is hard, but she never even apologized, and Stevie just accepts it because "she knew everything she needed from Adri she'd already given to herself"
after telling each other "I love you platonically", and after the fact that the last conversation the two had on the page ammounted to Adri telling Stevie that she wanted her back but she didn't want to break up with Vanessa??? , nuh uh, sorry - Iris's family. Also never apologized to her for being so shitty and never understanding her, and her brother seemed so misogynystic?? Making "jokes" about how a Happily Ever After is really a "Shittily Ever After" and other kind of "jokes" like that with his BIL, like, just say you hate your wife and go
- And, the one I ignored the most bc ofc, this is a romance book, and I was actually rooting for them: that I don't love when a MC is constantly telling their family "I don't want to date, I'm happy by myself, I do not need you to set me up on dates, I actually hate it" and their pushy family doesn't accept it only for the MC to, in fact, fall in love/realize that they weren't happy by themself. The petty side in me doesn't like giving the pushy families the satisfaction lmao
But one thing I ADORED were Iris's friends! At first I was a little lost ngl, when they're first introduced via group chat, because I couldn't keep up with who was who and who was with who, but I know that's on me for starting on the last book of the trilogy lmao, and once I was able to keep them straight, they're just the most supportive, lovely group of friends <3 (specially compared to Stevie's 😒 cuz I don't let Vanessa off the hook either, even tho I didn't talk about her when talking about Adri
I also LOOOVED Stevie's character growth, at the end, I felt she was the MC more than Iris (tho, since it was dual POV I'm pretty sure they're both of them are MCs, and neither is just "the love interest") because through most of the book I didn't feel like Iris got much development
Graphic: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Misogyny
Moderate: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Acephobia/Arophobia, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Vomit, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Drug use, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage
Slut shaminggrace_b_3's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Vomit, Homophobia, and Infidelity
finnickdeservedbetter's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Tropes & Themes:
- romance author x theatre actor
- fake dating
- spicy lessons
- dating lessons
- failed one night stand
- small town
- mid-sized FMC
- anxiety rep
Spice level: low-medium
3 explicit sex scenes
Representation
- Bi MC & multiple secondary characters
- Lesbian MC & multiple secondary characters
- 2 non-binary side characters
- Several POC side characters
- MC with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
My thoughts:
I loved it. It took me a second to warm up to Iris in Delilah Green Doesn't Care but once I did, I love her and I knew her book would be my favourite. Surprise, surprise, I was right.
I loved seeing GAD rep. Anxiety as a whole isn't discussed a lot in fiction, especially in contemporary romance. I also liked the emphasis on it being part of Stevie, but not defining her. It's not a personal fault. It just is what it is.
Another thing I loved was the child-free by choice rep. So often (as in 9.9/10 times) a women's HEA in romance books is being married, having 2.4 kids, and living in the suburbs in a house with a white picket fence. That's fine and dandy...if that's what you want. That's not the case for so many women but those women are so rarely represented.
Anyways, I'm stop yapping, otherwise we'll get into spoiler territory.
Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing
Moderate: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Homophobia
elizabeth_reads__'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I have complicated feelings about the 2 main characters. 1st, Stevie. I loved her. She was an anxious emotional mess. She wants to move on from her ex, (whom she spends way too much time with.) Then we have Iris—the one whom the book is named. I disliked Iris. I am sad that I deducted a star from this book and it was mostly about her. I love messy characters, and she was messy but she was mean. The way she treated her friends and Stevie really made me dislike her. I get it, she had been hurt in the past from previous relationships. But she didn't need to make it everyone else's problem and be such a bitch because of it.
In conclusion, I liked this book but if you dislike annoying and 'pick me' characters, I suggest staying away from Iris Kelly doesn't date.
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Homophobia
drtx_bwt's review
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Biphobia, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Homophobia
Minor: Infidelity
viselik's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
The only bit I didn't fully adore was the beginning, which I felt was a bit slow, but that could also be because I didn't read the first book (Delilah Green Doesn't Care) in this series, and I DNF'd the second (Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail). I fully understood the characters and their relationships even though I didn't read the previous books in this series.
I found the way it used Iris's story at the end of the book to be amazing, and I couldn't put it down when it hit that point!
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Homophobia
grets_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content
Moderate: Mental illness and Alcohol
Minor: Vomit and Homophobia