Discovering Delilah (Harborside Nights #2; Love in Bloom #56)
Melissa Foster
Discovering Delilah is an edgy, evocative, romantic story of friendship, family, and the courage to love. Delilah I’ve never kissed a girl. But I want to… I lost my parents the day I graduated from college. This summer, I thought I could finally follow my heart, and come out to my closest friends, but the guilt of going against my parents’ beliefs is crushing me, while my feelings for my best friend, Ashley, are making me want and need and crave her. But I’ve never even kissed a girl. What if I do everything wrong? When another girl offers to teach me the ropes, how can I say no? That one night changes my world and gives me the courage to go after the only girl I really want. Ashley Sparks aren’t just flying. They’re igniting… I promised myself that I’d never date another girl who wasn't out. But that was before I fell for intoxicatingly sweet and sexy Delilah. Coming together means risking everything for both of us. But fear stops Delilah at every turn, and I’m not sure I can risk my heart for someone who’s afraid to show the world she’s mine. Harborside Nights series Catching Cassidy (Het) Discovering Delilah (F/F) Tempting Tristan (M/M) "Finally, a realistic lesbian protagonist! The dynamic between Delilah and Ashley was super intense. Their first kiss was insanely hot and I am very much impressed with Melissa Foster's talent for sex scenes. Lesbian sex scenes always end up TOO soft and feathery. It's not realistic. This author turned up the heat." Literary Meanderings review Characters from the Love in Bloom series will appear in the Harborside Nights books. "Catching Cassidy is laugh out loud funny, heartwarming, sexy, and hands down one of my favorite reads so far this year!" -- #1 NYT Bestselling Author of The Bet, Rachel Van Dyken HARBORSIDE NIGHTS is a sexy, hot, and evocatively real contemporary romance series that follows a group of friends who have known one another for years as "summer" friends, and now come together after college to build their lives. They're tough, edgy, and accepting--most of the time. Discovering Delilah is written in the loving, raw, and emotional voice readers have come to love by New York Times & USA Today bestselling, award-winning author Melissa Foster.
Publication Year: 2015
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I'm really struggling with my feeling toward the Harborside Nights series. I am so glad Melissa Foster is touching on LGBT topics, I feel it's something too many authors shy away from. So that's not my problem with this series. I believe it's the overall tone of the stories. They are wonderful stories but they really delve into death, grief, acceptance, guilt, etc. I'm not adverse to these things at all. I'm just having a hard time flipping that switch in my brain that assumes a Melissa Foster book is going to be 75% warm fuzzies and 25% angst instead of the other way around.
Please do not pass this book up because of the seriousness. It is a beautiful story of love and self-discovery and acceptance that should be read. Just know there isn't a lot of joking or playfulness in the book. But it's chock-full of love!
One thing that would have improved this story, in my eyes, that has nothing to do with the overall tone...the friends. We were introduced to a whole cast of characters in the first book and we barely see them in this book. I'm sure it's because Delilah had to go through her emotions on her own and learn to be confident on her own, but I still missed them.
0I loved Tristan’s story so I had to go back and read Delilah’s.
Boy do we all have baggage from our parents. Delilah grew up in a family where she felt her parents didn’t approve of Sam sex relationships. On the night she comes out to them, they are killed in a car accident. She has a lot of shame tied around her sexuality. That makes it hard to move forward.
This book is more about acceptance and self discovery than about falling in love. It’s about letting go of other people’s expectations and living your own truth.
I enjoyed this story. And all the relationships in this world.
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