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The second novel in Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls series is just as fresh and fun as the first. In this instalment, Delilah's stepsister Astrid takes centre stage, along with Jordan Eastwood, who has returned to Bright Falls to help her grandmother restore the beloved family hotel. Astrid is the interior designer tasked with the restoration, and she needs this project to work, in order to restore her reputation after she broke up with her fiancé a year ago. (As was depicted in the previous novel in the series.) This is made more complicated by one, the fact that the restoration is being broadcast on a reality TV series, two, she and Jordan have a major personality clash, three, Jordan hates the design and feels that it doesn't capture the history of the hotel and four, Astrid might just be falling for Jordan and maybe she is beginning to realise that she is bisexual.  This was an interesting read. Both characters are easy to identify with and to feel empathy for. Each...

I was not prepared for just how much I would love Delilah Green Doesn't Care, a quirky contemporary romance, or how much I would love the intended to be unlikeable title character. Delilah Green is an up-and-coming photographer, living in New York. After having her heart broken, she has made up her mind that she doesn't do relationships. She also never returns back to her hometown, but both of those things change when she is summoned back to Bright Falls to be the photographer at her stepsister's wedding. Suddenly, she finds herself falling for Claire, the shy and geeky Maid of Honour who has a bad relationship history of her own. The fact that Delilah's budding relationship with Claire is bugging her stepsister is another reason to keep going. But what if Claire ends up getting hurt? And is bride-to-be Astrid and her friends really as horrible as Delilah remembers? This was such a fun, quirky novel. I loved that Delilah and Claire were very different from one another y...