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BOOK Review! The Banks Empire!

📚BOOK REVIEW: Prime: The Banks Empire by N’Dia Rae

BABYYYYYYYY 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 THIS BOOK?!?!?!

Prime said peace was never an option 😭🤣 because WHAT WAS THAT ENDING?!?! That entire last portion of this book was straight chaos, unhinged, jaw on the FLOOR every page 🤯 Every time I thought ok maybe we can breathe now … ABSOLUTELY NOT 😩🤣

Prime is LETHAL. Like not book-boyfriend cute toxic… I mean ACTUALLY dangerous 😮‍💨🤣 and baby when it comes to what’s HIS?! he does. not. play. AT ALL. 🥴💀 touch it if you want to and see what happens energy the entire time 😭

But one of my FAVORITE moments? Whew ❤️‍🩹

That conversation about how Black men are taught they can’t be soft… can’t be vulnerable… can’t be artistic… can’t show emotion because somehow that gets labeled as weakness. How they’re expected to stay hard, keep the mask on, never let anybody see the cracks.

THAT PART?!?! Whewwww. 😮‍💨 Because that hit deeper than the drama for me. As a mom raising Black sons, that scene sat with me differently 🥺❤️ That pressure to “man up” so early, to suppress softness and emotion just to survive? Yeah… that was a powerful moment.

This wasn’t just hood drama for shock value either — this was giving loyalty, betrayal, trauma, survival, family mess, and that harsh reality that EVERYBODY around you is not for you. Whew! If “it be ya own people” was a BOOK?! THIS IS IT 👏🏽😩

And can we talk about that emotional pull because under all the chaos, there’s pain, survival, and folks just trying to make it the only way they know how.

BUT THIS CLIFFHANGER?!?!?!??!

N’Dia Rae… respectfully… COUNT YOUR DAYS 😭🤣 because EXCUSE ME?!?!

AND THE VERY END?!?!?! HARPO… WHO DIS WOMAN?!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏽‍♀️ because MA’AM?! HELLO?! WE JUST GONNA DROP THAT AND WALK OFF?! 😭💀

I was LOCKED IN. Fast-paced, gritty, emotional, messy, and unhinged in the best way 😮‍💨🔥

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

#urbanbookclubs #blackbooks #blackromancebooks #bookstagram #bookclub

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