Iris Kelly Doesn't Date: A swoon-worthy, laugh-out-loud queer romcom

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She holds a master's degree in teaching and loves coffee, arranging her books by color, and cold weather. I'm going to be honest here, I loved the first two books because of the characters, Claire, Delilah and Astrid, there were something about them that you feel attracted to their story. I don't know how Ashley do it but, in every conversation of Delilah, Claire, Astrid, Iris and even Jordan, literally I could hear their voices, their personalities.

The best feature of Blake’s Bright Falls series is the way that she examines the trauma that her characters have had to face. I really enjoyed Delilah Green Doesn't Care, I thought that it was a great deconstruction of the tropes that plagued the romance genre. e not cis, thin, white) are used as a throwaway line, they don't even show up ("Phoebe was a trans woman and a costume designer" "Tori was a Black lesbian"). No one in the editing process clocked that same sex marriage in Oregon was via a court decision, not legislation? All things I didn't realize until I watched her soften her pointy feelings over Stevie's too-rounded ones.Iris and Stevie each have their own compelling pasts, struggles, and dreams, and Blake shows both the hard work and the beauty involved in making those different realities wrap around each other in love. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

And of course all that wit and and fun hides a world of hurt that makes Iris get in her own way again and again when it comes to Stevie. Seriously, I loved Iris in Delilah’s book and Delilah in Iris’s book and that one opens the series while the other closes it is perfection. Iris will give Stevie intimacy lessons and Stevie will give-starved romance author- Iris the romance she needs for her next book and my god does she deliver; the hot air balloon date was just perfect.To get her mind off everything, Iris tries out for the lead role in a local play, a queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose real name turns out to be Stevie. My heart ached for the way her friends took advantage of her, the way she made herself small to be more likable. Okay, so my memory sucks and I remember enjoying the first two Bright Falls books a lot but did I laugh as much as with this one?

Iris and Stevie meet at a bar one night and after a hookup gone wrong, they don't expect to see each other ever again.

Iris notices immediately that Stevie's ex is jealous of her but fails to notice for 100+ pages that Stevie is really into her. With Iris, I really related to the way everyone in her life was constantly pressuring her to live life the way they thought was best. I might be willing if the author manages another story/series, but it's nowhere near being an auto-checkout at this point. Iris Kelly is struggling to get her love life together because she's "really good at sex" but struggles in relationships. Thank you to the eARC deities who gave me a copy of this book to read the moment it became available.

Loved Stevie, how human and relatable she got and of course Iris, our beautiful and entusiastic redhair. The third in Blake’s Bright Falls series, IRIS KELLY DOESN’T DATE is another swoony, sexy sapphic romance that ticked all the boxes for me.But okay, let's roll with it: as far as fake dating goes, Stevie acts very lacklustre and uninvested, seeming like a really bad girlfriend.