What Janine is Reading: LGBTQIA+ Books in a Mix of Genres

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

This book had a cute start and an interesting premise. I really liked the author’s earlier book, Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, but although this book wasn’t bad, it wasn’t quite as good. Astrid, whom we met in the last book, is standoffish and proper, having had that drilled into her by her cold and exacting mother.

Early in the book the other heroine, Jordan, spills coffee on Astrid’s dress as she’s coming out of a café where Astrid is about to...