Delilah Green Doesn't Care

i was really enjoying this at first, but along the way the story just became so meh and underwhelming. the characterization in some instances felt odd and the humour was just... contrived and not funny imo.

the potential romance between delilah and claire had be so damn excited when they first met; seriously, the tension was there and i was squealing in anticipation. but i feel like that excitement got lost and by the end their romance felt very basic—which in an of itself isn't bad, but i want the romances i read in novels to be more exciting than that.

also the humor really didn't work for me. it's not because of this category of millennial-esque humour associated with contemporary romcoms; i enjoy that type of humour. but all the jokes and attempts at saying something quirky or having funny banter was either cliche or unoriginal; it was painful for me to get through at times.

the characterizations also felt so odd. claire talks about how she's worried that ruby (her daughter) will hate her and that she can't spend time with her, but when ruby wants to sleep in claire's room after a fight with her friend claire tells her no because delilah's in her room and she wants to be with her. that didn't make sense to me given what was established about claire as a character prior to this moment, and completely took me out of the story.

iris was a side character in the story who was given too much slack imo. delilah confronts people about the nasty things they said about her when she was a teen yet she never does this with iris and instead befriends her without much conflict, despite the fact that we get actual recounts of the way iris talked shit about her behind her back when they were all kids. i had a hard time suspending my disbelief when i noticed all that.

so yeah no strong feelings per se but in general i found this book to be pretty mediocre. but take my review with a grain of salt because honestly i can understand why so many people enjoyed this