A review by violetends
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • 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 is such a cute story. I read it in between many other things in a handful of hours and enjoyed it so so much. Delilah is a queer photographer who is wonderfully grumpy and stubborn, but also so cool and soft and Claire is this soft and tired bookshop-owner and mom who is beginning to turn into the parent she never wanted to be. This story is pretty straight-forward, the outcome absolutely clear from the moment they meet within the first pages. Throughout the story numerous very tropy romance clichés come up that would make me sigh and maybe have me read on begrudingly in a cis-het romance. But reading a sapphic version of them that is this well written, gave me a first taste of satisfaction for a literary need that I have been feeling for way too long. I will certainly read the next to volumes of this series even though I am half convinced that no combination of characters will be as endearing as Claire and Delilah, but I am more than wiling to let myself be convinced otherwise.
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