From the very first chapter of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care(2022), I wanted to spend as much time as possible with Delilah Green, Claire Sutherland, Iris Kelly, Astrid Parker, and anyone else to whom Blake would introduce me. Stevie and Iris had a failed hookup and Stevie's (shitty) friends started pressing and asking if they're dating.

In real relationships, there will be problems and there will be the mundane, and it's a conscious act of love to make everyday life exciting.I also loved that we got to see her vulnerable underside, her hurt and the parts of herself she locked up for good, and the ways that Stevie can open her up again to the idea of love and partnership in a way that is so deeply relatable to so many people who have gone through a heartbreak. She holds a Master’s degree in teaching and loves coffee, arranging her books by color, and cold weather. It was such a delight to see Delilah, Claire, Astrid, and Jordan again; I adore the centrality of friendship and queer community in this series. I fall In love with adult romance because of Ashley Herring Blake , and to be honest , that's the best that happened in two years. Stevie's ex constantly bullies Iris, but it's Iris that gets chastised for standing her ground, Stevie never tries to defend her.

The best feature of Blake’s Bright Falls series is the way that she examines the trauma that her characters have had to face. All is going to plan until the stranger responds to Iris’s seduction technique by vomiting all over her. Thank you to the eARC deities who gave me a copy of this book to read the moment it became available. Ah yes, so, it turns out that “throwing every single queer stereotype at the wall and seeing what sticks” worked for me for precisely one book.

She’ll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. There’s only one problem—Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she’s completely out of ideas. I love the idea Iris took on of refueling your creative side with a new passion to find the love for your real one.

Together they were incredible - again the spice was phenomenal but they're also so soft and sweet with each other, And you can see such a great friendship beneath all that chemistry making them such a great pairing. she was very relatable and while others might not like her character, i understood where she was coming from.Loved Stevie, how human and relatable she got and of course Iris, our beautiful and entusiastic redhair. I struggled with the third-act misunderstanding/breakup that is so common in contemporary romance, and I struggled with reading the self-sabotage on both sides, but even still, I was so invested in their love story that I was able to push through for that happily ever after. The thing is that many of us are motivated to not do things for a lot of different, perfectly valid and reasonable, reasons. There's only one problem--Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she's completely out of ideas.

I’ve consumed a lot of sapphic fiction these past few months by many different authors and the resolution in this book to the obligatory 3rd act breakup is by far the most satisfactory out of all the stories I’ve read to date. For what it’s worth, though, I’d take Bright Falls over Bluebell, Virgin River, or even Stars Hollow (yes, Stars Hollow) any day. I think it comes down to not rooting for the couple to get together, AND being kind of annoyed by the plot/character arcs that were around them.

I’ll still give at least another book by this author a try, (the first chapter of the snipet in the back of this one made me curious) but it might be a case of one worked for me, and ultimately I don’t mesh well as a reader for her. her growth was slightly rushed compared to stevie's and there wasn't enough fall out for her stupid actions but it is what it isss.