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A review by kayblecar
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
emotional
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
One star for the stepsisters' dynamic and growth. As a romance it was fine. As a queer romance something was missing.
The book puts a lot of work into telling us these characters are super-duper queer, especially Delilah, but there's more to queerness than watching every Netflix show with queer characters. It felt to me like Delilah (and by extension, the author) was trying to prove something about her identity, rather than just being.
I appreciate the book identifying characters as white, clearly pushing back against the way whiteness is often treated as the default in character descriptions, but when you awkwardly drop it in for only three women at the beginning and maybe four characters total, it makes it more conspicuous that you didn't do it for all of the other white people.
The book puts a lot of work into telling us these characters are super-duper queer, especially Delilah, but there's more to queerness than watching every Netflix show with queer characters. It felt to me like Delilah (and by extension, the author) was trying to prove something about her identity, rather than just being.
I appreciate the book identifying characters as white, clearly pushing back against the way whiteness is often treated as the default in character descriptions, but when you awkwardly drop it in for only three women at the beginning and maybe four characters total, it makes it more conspicuous that you didn't do it for all of the other white people.