Status Updates From The Princess and the P.I.

And I don’t mind the pop you’re references but Nikki Payne is such a canonically older millennial black auntie and it comes up on her references loll
This man compared her to a muse in Disney’s Hercules

I am cringing a little at them, but in the same way as Hazelwood’s. God bless the millennial aunties!

They book needed a better reason they are working together towards the same goal

2/2 also his life is a mess but he also is able to seduce all these witnesses idk some of it doesn’t match
I also feel like they are fundamentally trying to do 2 different things. I feel like any evidence she would be able to use in her case would have to be legally obtained and given to the police. They keep pickpocketing things, deceiving people etc in a way a PI maybe? would

Something about this book reads like a first draft. It feels developmentally off like the ideas are kind of sketched out here but someone didn’t go through to connect, question or deepen them.

I also feel like Maurice’s characterization is all over the place. He’s like a black anime nerd with severe allergies, this debonair Mercedes driving/cigar smoking/materalistic Bond like detective and 1/2

The mystery has been solved…why is this book still going?

This is spicy!

“Baby girl was clearly off script.
Maybe she told them she was here to save lives. To spread the good word. Maybe he’d come to check on her. Expecting some righteous mission only to find her dressed to spread her legs instead”

Got damn 😭

What was the point of the vest …is the pacing weird and character’s motivations undercooked, yes but still having the time of my life

Very niche black DMV and religiously traumatized west African immigrant references that I understand ….but I’m the niche this book was written for, and I think most people will be like these characters are annoying

Idk I’m a Maryland supremacist