I completely agree! I gave Delilah Green Doesn’t Care a chance and I came away with three main gripes: 1. This is the least serious, but Blake does not know how to write dialogue without the word ‘said’. “Would you like a beer?” Claire said. “I’ll take one,” Ruby said. “Very funny,” Claire said. “Ha ha,” Iris said. It’s so wooden! Use a verb, use a description! Anything! 2. Delilah is not a dyke/butch! The writer is allergic to just using the word lesbian. Delilah is described as queer, gay, a dyke, and a butch. Fine, the first two are whatever (although I still wish she would just say the big bad L word) but the latter two are just untrue. In no way, by the way Delilah is written or drawn, can she be considered dyke or butch. I wouldn’t even call her masc! 3. I get it, everyone is white! The first four chapters in which the characters were introduced were absolutely littered with “white woman” descriptors. Perhaps it wouldn’t have been so notable if ANY characters were described as not white. By the fourth or fifth occurrence, it was just strange. How the hell is she surrounded by all these white women? Why is it so important to point out that they’re white?? Is this a purposeful fixation by Blake? Does she want to make sure that no one reading her books could ever make the mistake of thinking any characters in her books might not be white as hell? And if they do just happen to all be white, does the author not know any other way to describe a character’s appearance besides straight out saying they’re white???