Lesbians Take Over The World
Lesbians Take Over The World
by Charlotte Brandman
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This week, I conquered the biggest feat of all: I found a sapphic romance with the perfect balance of love, queer pride, and smut. That’s right, Ashley Herring Blake changed my life for the better when she wrote Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. I’ve heard rumblings that I should give this book a try but I was so worried it would be another lesbian romance either too focused on the sex scenes or too wrapped up in the queer coming-out storyline to explore sapphic love; however, Blake nailed it right on the head and accidentally made me fall in love with a fictional small town and everyone inside of it.
Delilah Green is the modern Cinderella, minus the mice friends. When her father died when she was only ten, she was left to live with her stepmother, Isabel, and her step-sister, Astrid, both of whom despise her.
When she graduated high school, she fled to New York and didn’t look back until Astrid invited Delilah back to her hometown to shoot Astrid’s wedding photos. Delilah wouldn’t have even considered this proposition if it weren’t for the fifteen thousand dollars Astrid’s mother was offering to pay Delilah— and, given Delilah’s struggle to pay her rent, she accepted.
Her first night back in Bright Falls calls for a stiff glass of bourbon, which she finds ample amounts of at the local bar, Stella’s. As she waits for her glass, her childhood crush, Claire Sutherland, who’s also Delilah’s evil step-sister’s best friend, walks up to her… and flirts with her. Delilah is stunned. And suddenly it hits her– Claire doesn’t remember her.
Claire Sutherland got pregnant at nineteen and gave birth to her beautiful daughter, Ruby, forcing her to stay in Bright Falls instead of following her friends to UC Berkeley. After eleven years of vigorous co-parenting with her flakey ex-boyfriend, Josh, running her own independent bookstore, and raising her daughter, she’s had no time for new relationships. The most action she’s gotten is when she and Josh hate-fucked after he disappeared on her and Ruby for a second time.
When she sees Delilah sitting pretty at Stella’s – her arms laced in sexy, black tattoos – she has to get her number. So when Astrid storms into Stella’s after a fight with her fiance and sees her step-sister flirting with her best friend, Claire swears she’ll never flirt with Delilah again— but Delilah has other plans.
The sexual tension between these two is off the charts! I’m a sucker for a slow-burn romance and Ashely Herring Blake served it to me on a silver platter. Claire and Delilah are forced to sneak around their friends and family as they navigate their casual, no-strings-attached sexual relationship that definitely won’t end in an engagement.
Can you hear my sarcasm through your screen?
On the “Enemies to Readers” Sex-o-Meter scale, this was a 2 out of 5 stars. As an avid smut enjoyer, I wished there were more intimate scenes purely so I could see myself and my relationship represented on the page for longer— but beggars can’t be choosers, so I powered through.
Delilah Green might not care, but I fell in love with her small town and the people she learned to love within it.
See you next read,
Charlotte
