A Review of Delilah Green Doesn't Care

Story Reviews #5

Stories Reviewed Today:

• Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

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Dear reader,

I’m going for another love story today!

**Please Note: This is an adult novel with some adult scenes and themes, so please be aware if that’s not what you want to read!

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Review for Delilah Green Doesn’t Care

Okay, so this book. I have many thoughts.

The main characters feel very real. Our MCs feel three-dimensional and do not feel like cardboard cut-outs, unlike some of the minor characters who are portrayed as just being icy-hearted, like Isabel.

That being said, Delilah, Iris, and Astrid all took me some time to warm up to.

Delilah Green’s intro does clearly show us the way she interacts with others, but her behavior towards Lorelei in the opening didn’t sit well with me. Delilah just up and left without even saying an actual goodbye. Basically just a curt “gotta blast.”

And yeah, I totally understand why she had to go and get ready for the whole wedding thing, but you could be considerate enough to go, “Hey, I’m sorry, this was awesome and all, but my stepsister needed me on a plane 30 minutes ago. TTYL!” 

This interaction shows the kind of life Delilah Green currently leads, how she has shut herself off to love, and can honestly be pretty callous towards others to protect her heart, so I get that it’s a great way to show her character. (A very good writing choice I applaud, even if it makes me annoyed with the character!) It obviously mirrors the title, because yes, Delilah Green does not care.

It also makes me not like Delilah very much right off the bat.

I tend to be a reader who gives a protagonist three strikes before I stop reading. If I don’t like them from the start, I give them the benefit of the doubt and read on unless I just really hate them.

The only exceptions were for required reading in school. I often hated every character in classic literature books I had to read for school, but it was for a grade, so I had to continue reading. I am not at all a classics kind of person and I like very few of them. More on that another day!

Delilah grows on me as the story progresses, especially as we learn why she’s shut herself off to other people. Same with Astrid and Claire.

Isabel gets a bit of this slow-burn-redemption treatment, but not really. (Isabel just sounds like she’s meant to be a bad person whereas the other characters are meant to be fleshed out. I’m not sure if she gets more depth in the rest of the series, as I’ve yet to read the rest yet!)

I was also constantly nervous about just how awful Spencer was going to turn out, but good news: there’s nothing terrible. Like, no trigger warnings necessary.

The book stays pretty cozy. (I’ve been caught off guard by “cozy” books that include really dark stuff and was really hoping to avoid a repeat, which I did, thankfully!)

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Rating for Delilah Green Doesn’t Care

Overall, I’m giving this one a 4 out of 5 stars.

I didn’t adore it, but I did really enjoy it!

I thought this was an individual book until I flipped to the last pages (because I’m someone who always reads the acknowledgements and other pages in the back) and saw the excerpt of the next book’s chapter.

And that next book, Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, is now on my TBR, if that tells you anything. Based on what’s set up about the next book, I have a pretty good idea of how Hallmark-Christmas-movie-y feeling this next one seems like it will be (just, minus the Christmas, I think). But it sounds like a fun read!

Thanks so much for reading!

Read anything good and/or cozy recently?

Have a lovely day!

-Olivia :)