A realistic, feel good coming of age story. There are so few Australian YA stories and I’m so glad I got the chance to read this one. This isn’t necessarily a unique story, but it filled me with joy and I would happily read more by this author.

Really enjoyed this one - it's a light, quick, cheery read and I have been ready pretty heavy lately so it was nice to bask in some fun teen drama for a bit. Really wish some of the minor characters were a little bit more fleshed out, but overall a thumbs up!

This was a good, but not great coming of age story. Some aspects of the story were not believable; no doting father takes off for months leaving their teenager in any capacity.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC of Get It Together, Delilah by Erin Gough.

Delilah has a lot on her plate. It's her senior year, she's just coming to terms with the fact that she likes girls, and she's running the family restaurant all alone. With her dad obliviously traveling and leaving the restaurant to her, she has no idea how to balance school, friendships, and the struggling business.

This is a decent coming of age story set in Australia. It's filled with plenty of romance, friend drama, and the painful metamorphosis into adulthood. It was sweet and charming.

My only real issue was that her seemingly sweet and caring dad totally ditched his senior daughter so that he can go travel and have fun?! And somehow the police aren't called? I need someone to explain to me why he couldn't wait for just one year. It almost ruined the whole story for me.

DNF

I liked the voice initially, but I find myself unable to get past the idea that Delilah's ostensibly loving father would leave his seventeen year old daughter to run his cafe for MONTHS. And the fact that she's lying to him and saying things are fine isn't particularly endearing.

Delilah's life is a hot mess and I loved every second of it. I was cheering her on while also rolling my eyes at her at the same time. She was so well written, it was easy to see her as a flawed person with a heart of gold.

The romance was so adorable I felt myself blushing frequently. The friendships were also believable and extremely entertaining.

I loved so many things about this. I love books about queer characters with happy endings because so often in real life, we don't get that. Which this book also touched on. It didn't shy away from lesbophobia but also showed that there are going to be people in your corner that love and support you.

I just loved the atmosphere of this book. A family owned cafe in Australia with a group of friends growing up and growing into themselves just ADORABLE.

I need every Erin Gough book to become available in the US, please.

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The book is good but not great. I read a lot so parts of it were predictable. It’s a sweet coming of age book about a young lesbian crushing on the sexy flamenco dancer next door while trying to keep her family restaurant running while juggling everything else. It’s an Australian import that will be making its American debut in April. The last book I can remember reading that had a young lesbian POV was The Miseducation Of Cameron Post so it’s about time there was another book with a teen lesbian protagonist.

I received this as an arc from NetGalley for an honest review. I started reading this book quite a while ago and simply forgot about it. I did not find the story or characters memorable enough to go back and finish.

So sorry this is so late, but I loved this book! The characters were very relatable and the writing was very good! Would definitely recommend!

I loved this book! The full review will be posted soon at kaitgoodwin.com/books! Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to connect books to their readers!

One of my favorite LGBTQ books of 2017. I loved this funny and heartfelt and sometimes heartbreaking novel about love and second chances. Erin Gough is an author to watch for me!

I loved this book! Delilah is a wonderful character with a great personality and a wonderfully resilient spirit. Filled with humor and pathos and a cast of entertaining and engaging secondary characters, this is a great "coming of age" YA novel. I loved how Delilah tried so hard to please everyone and still be true to herself and her own needs and wants. I loved the "happily ever after" ending that's actually believable and not too over the top. I even liked the annoyingly intrusive school counselor/teacher who tries so hard to help Delilah, but really has no clue how to relate to her. I really liked that she kept at it and that she and Delilah finally forge a relationship in spite of everything. Great story for teens.

This was an enjoyable, average, read-once, contemporary YA. I can see this being a good read for teens who are looking for something to relate to. As an adult, I do enjoy a good YA and I loved Simon Vs the Homosapians Agenda. This was no where near as good and charming as that book but it was a decent read.

I received a free advance copy of this book from the publisher on netgalley.

while I could have done with significantly less melodrama on the part of the main character, delilah, the book was still an enjoyable, Australian based romp of teenage friendships and romance.

I like that even though homophobia played a significant part and bullying did cause a lot of problems, the big picture "baddie" impacting their lives was lawsuits and corporate greed. it was nice that her friends and family accepted her sexuality without reservations.

An adorable, funny and witty book dealing with real issues. Bullying is such a real issue. Has been around for ages but has only recently been in the forefront with social media becoming a huge factor. Poor Delilah quits school due to bullying and goes to work at her dad's restaurant. Who doesn't wallow in their misery for awhile? What was great was Delilah's journey back out of this. To see her own her own actions, apologize for them and move forward was a bright spot. Definitely would love to see more by this author.

Delilah needs to get it together and fast! Her mom has left them, her dad is finding himself and she is trying to balance school, running the family restaurant and her love life or lack thereof.

Another enjoyable, believable, yet entirely horrific possibility in the future of humankind.

Thank you for the ARC! I really wanted to like this book because of the premise and the diversity (and I'm a Flamenco Dancer!) but unfortunately it fell emotionally flat for me. Delilah had so many things to be emotional about and she wasn't not even a bit. Her mom abandoned her. she is bullied at school, she has to take over the family business and not even once at least in the first 20% of the book I heard her say HOW she felt about anything! Too bad because the writing was god! but it felt like a list of fact, Since it's first person POV it's even more important to add that human dimension to it. Best of luck to Erin! She is a good writer!

In Get It Together, Delilah! 17-year-old Delilah is going through it! It’s her final year of school and she’s struggling to keep her grades up while dealing with homophobic bullying from classmates. Her father goes on an extended world trip, leaving it up to Delilah to keep the Flywheel, her family’s café, afloat through a string of calamities. On top of all that she’s also dealing with friend drama and a seemingly hopeless crush on Rosa, a college activist/flamenco dancer.

With all the things she’s juggling, it’s inevitable Del’s going to drop the ball on at least one of them – somehow, she manages to drop the ball on all of them.

While there is definitely a romance plotline that weaves throughout the whole book, I wouldn’t really say this is a story about falling in love – although that’s certainly part of it. In my eyes Get It Together, Delilah! could more accurately be described as the story of a teen girl with a stubborn streak a mile wide and a minor anger problem trying to keep her life together as everything seems to fall apart in her life at the same time.

I loved the way this book was written – the flow was on point, chapters were just the right length, and the storytelling managed to hook me in and keep me turning pages, even when I started to get a little annoyed at the main character. Delilah’s stubborn refusal of help and unwillingness to take suggestions began to get kind of irritating the farther I got in to the story, but eventually Del does, in fact, manage to Get It Together and I really enjoyed how it all came together for her in the end.

I love books set in coffee shops and I love strong female characters (even if their stubborn ways get on my nerves at points) so this book was right up my alley and I really liked it. I would definitely recommend it for people who love teen dramas with diverse characters. The storytelling and writing was fantastic and I would absolutely read more books by this author.

When Delilah's dad decides to take some time off to mend his broken heart, things go awry when the manager of his cafe is indisposed. Reluctant to bring her dad home from his well needed vacation, Delilah decides that she will take over the cafe and keep her family afloat. Things go haywire, however, as Delilah finds herself struggling to keep it all together, mean girls at school, her wild BFF Charlie, her crush on Rosa from the restaurant next door and managing a cafe that is hemorrhaging customers to another local cafe. At the end of the day it all comes together with a little help from her friends.

Cute and fun read.