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

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I was extremely invested in this story and the characters which usually isn't a thing for me when it comes to traditionally published romances. anger, mainly, frustration and sadness, maybe a little happiness too but that was really buried under. On the one hand, a Parker society wedding in Bright Falls was the absolute last thing she wanted to do right now. What I expected was a funny, charming, badass queer MC that executes the relationship bet trope well, with maybe some sharp insights on family and grief. I don't think this would be an issue for the majority of readers, but once I noticed the lack of the word lesbian in a book where the main character is a lesbian, I couldn't stop noticing it.

Not the type of Rom com novel where you have to wait to the last two chapters for the characters to even kiss. We never see Delilah really take accountability for her behavior much, and I don’t mean as kids, but rather as adults, at what she did during all of Astrid’s wedding events. On top of that, there’s the romance which we didn’t get to see develop, because of the above mentioned useless plot points. In the end, Delilah slowly redeemed herself a little bit for me, but it took a very long time to get there and I still wasn't a huge fan by the time I reached the last page. Claire is a mother to an adorable tween named Ruby who she's struggling to do right by while in a messy co-parenting situation with Ruby's father, Josh.Pocket change to Isabel Parker-Green and to most Brooklynites, but to Delilah, who could stretch a dollar for days, it was an IV to her dehydrated bank account. It really made the friendship between Claire, Iris and Astrid shine and I loved seeing Delilah find her place in that dynamic.

The actual plot here concerns Delilah Green, a thirty-ish photographer, currently trying to make it in NYC having fled the small town where she grew up. The perfect daughter, Astrid, is now getting married and Delilah has been summoned back to Bright Falls to be the wedding photographer. I loved every hilarious character, every outrageous shenanigan – and most of all, I loved Delilah Green. Is that the one where the douchebag hid his wife away in the attic and then lied about it to the girl he wanted to bang who was, like, half his age? Astrid thinks that Delilah is a b*tch and she has a troubled life, when in fact she herself is quite spoiled and Delilah has spent her life alone.She was a legal adult, and there was no way in hell she was going to stay in that house one second longer than she needed to. Honestly, if everything by Blake is like this (I mean in terms of writing style, plot development, and character development) then I can't wait to pick up more of her works. They'd only spoken on the phone a dozen or so times since Delilah left Bright Falls the day after high school graduation, hopping a bus to Seattle with her Bright Falls High duffel bag on her shoulder, while Astrid took off for a postgrad trip to France with all of her horrible BFFs.