CB12’s Reviews > The Princess and the P.I. > Status Update

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

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

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

The FMC is a religiously traumatized child of west African immigrants growing up in PG county and a redacted at 28… *Olivia Wilde nods aggressively.*

Nikki if you can hear me Nikki, save meeee