Delilah Green Doesn’t Care
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Delilah Green is an awkward review to write purely because I left too long of a gap between reading and reviewing. At the time of reading I loved it - I gave it an enthusiastic 5 stars and recommended it to several friends. Coming back to it now to review, I find I didn’t write myself any notes about WHY I enjoyed it so much. So I’ll stand by my original overall impression - this was an excellent romance, and I’ll recommend it to any romance lovers out there!
Since I don’t want to risk accidentally making things up, I just want to talk about two smaller pieces that stuck with me. The first is the sibling relationship between Delilah and Astrid. It felt so well done to me, complete with stupid misunderstandings and an absolute inability to resist being bratty to each other. We get both perspectives in the book and it was an excellent
iteration of the miscommunication trope - Delilah and Astrid are always 100% sure they know exactly what the other intends at all times, and are too busy dealing with their own issues to ever question their assumptions. Anyone who has realized halfway through a knock-down drag-out fight with a sibling only to realize there was no reason to start the fight in the first place should be able to relate.
The other piece I really liked was actually more of a throwaway line. This is one of the first sapphic romances I’ve picked up, so I don’t have a baseline yet for what is ‘standard’. But right at the beginning of the book Delilah has a small moment of world-weary frustration as she is forced to decide whether or not to come out to a pushy bartender who keeps hitting on her. He doesn’t react particularly badly once she does, but I’d never thought about how exhausting navigating daily repeats of that decision would be. Time for another tally in the ‘invisible privileges’ column.
I remember very little about the rest of the friendship dynamics or the central romance, so I’m not going to argue that this book will change your life. But if you want a really enjoyable and low-stress read (and for the holiday season, who doesn’t want that), this is a great book to pick up. The characters all spend a lot of time drinking, and I feel like it was usually wine. So in honor of an enjoyable but maybe not memorable book I paired it with an enjoyable red wine sample I got from In Good Taste. I’m not going to keep an eye out for it next time I’m at the liquor store, but I am going to enjoy finishing the bottle!
