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Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
4.0
funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was cute and I got through it pretty quick. I don't read romance that often but I enjoyed this one, probably because a large focus was on Delilah and Astrid's issues as sisters, and Astrid's shitty relationship. I found myself more invested in those things than Delilah and Claire's romance.

The whole book was basically just a miscommunication trope, but I wasn't mad at it because I felt like it worked well here; I could see Delilah's and Astrid's teenage issues being pretty realistic. I know we can look at the miscommunication stuff as "gosh, just talk about it" but with family stuff that goes that far back, I can see the struggle. I was happy that everyone was a little introspective about their problems and knew it was a group effort to screw things up rather than the fault of one person (Besides Isabel....she sucked. But, who knows, she could be redeemed.) Claire and Delilah's miscommunication worked too, in my opinion because they have similar issues of having past expectations of each other, along with the deadline of Delilah intending to leave town and never come back. 

The "oh no, we have to share a bed," was a little forced in though, lol. Even with the whole estrangement thing, I don't buy that Astrid Parker would forget to book enough rooms. That girl was on top of shit.

All in all, Delilah and Claire's romance was cute, but I was more happy to see Delilah and Astrid finally connect as sisters and start to heal their own personal issues. Reading the except for Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail had me feeling I probably will like that book even more, honestly.

I did think it was kinda weird how at some point for every character it was specified they were white, even down to  including Delilah's one night stand in the beginning. I kept waiting for a character to be introduced who was not specifically white, but...nope. It didn't always seem relevant  without adding any other kind of representation and gave kinda a weird vibe.