Capri Book 1 by Jahquel J Review 🔥 | Raw & Real Breakdown | The Bookfest Club

[MUSIC] Welcome back, welcome back. We are the Bookfest Club. I'm your co-host Jay Longer, my co-host key and my co-host, Jules and Tate. This is the longer weighted episode, man. People have been waiting for this episode asking us to, when you're going to cover the books. >> They've been waiting for this as long as GT6. >> Yeah. >> GT86. >> For weeks. >> Jay, we're working. >> Concert like a giveaway. >> This is Book 1 of Capri, man. We sorry for the weak hiatus, man. We just be tight. We got a lot of stuff to do. We got families. We got overnight shifts. We got bad knees. It's just a lot going on. So it's just like, yo, we just, we recall when we can and we don't want to take no week's old, but things happen, man. But we don't want to, what's going on? >> Good people. How was everybody weak? >> I played my first golf for the season. >> I did well, man. I played with some good friends of my honor. I picked up a club all year. Went out there, did pretty well. My back, however, yeah, bro, I'm going to be in that episode salt later. Who would about you, key? >> Yeah, I had a pretty good week. Just staying arrested, working. But yeah, it was a pretty good week. What about you, Jay? >> I'm good. I think I, well, I can't really, I want to say I think, but I know that knee ain't right. So I might be having to get that bad boy tested. Hopefully, I don't, I think I'm going to need that surgery, but okay, I put my foot up and I'll be recording sideways like this. But, you know what I'm saying? So I don't even matter. I've just had man happy to be here, though, man. But let's not keep him waiting, y'all. Right? Just let's all for cap 3 and 3.5. You know, now it's time for big pre to take over. >> Big pre. >> So what did y'all feel about her? >> Her side of the story, her speaking. What did you think about her? Like after we know all of the stuff that she's been through, what it was y'all like take on her perspective, basically. >> You want to go key? How are you all here? >> I mean, yeah, I know I've always been a champion of Capri from the very beginning. So I really, really, yeah, I really, really enjoyed this book. I feel like she finally got her time to shine, especially after the end of Capadana 3.5. We know that she took some time off to travel. I feel like she learned how to be by herself, which is really important, you know, she. >> Absolutely. >> Away from Nihem and then to Kinkade. I feel like there was a little bit of she didn't really want to be alone after seeing so many other people in relationships. So she's the only one without her person. So I really liked that she spent that time alone. I liked the friendship that she built with Quamir. I thought that was my favorite part of the book. You know, I feel like a lot of relationships, I think if they're grounded in friendship, they have a better chance of lasting versus if it's just romantic off-ripp, you know. I really liked seeing how her and Quamir's relationship developed from being friends and then developing into something more. And I've always been a really big fan of Capri, so I really, really loved this book. I loved being in her his. >> What about you, Drew? >> Matt, I'm going to just go ahead and say it. I was trying to wait to save this. I feel like this is the best love story of the whole delgado series. >> What? >> I agree. I was agree. >> What? >> It's authentic. Someone that's trying to be big and bad and just violent. It's like Quamir is, he sings. >> He has a degree in engineering. He has a real person. He just so happens to thug. >> He does care. >> He's all having to thug. He doesn't have any to thug. You know what I'm saying? He's not a thug trying to be a romantic. He's a real person. He does stocks. He's intellectual. He's smart. He's gentle with his daughter. He's managing this co-parenting situation. And then he is role-mancing the socks off of Capri. >> Yeah. >> Like, this is my favorite love story. >> Yeah. >> I think Capri came into her own. I love it. >> Yeah. >> Even when, so before we get into the rubric, right? I didn't like Quamir, right? In the beginning, I wasn't really, I wasn't not a fan, right? And I just felt like, again, he gave her a lot of, you know, I'm saying space and time, but I just felt like he was overdoing it, right? And there's going to be some specific examples when we go through the rubric. But I just was like, bro, really? You ready to shoot somebody at the basketball court because she got on these little shorts? Like it's New York City, it's the Rucker. Have you been in Harlem? You know what time it is? All the baddies come out, bro. And she ain't chose at this time. You know what I mean? You just ready to kill or onsite. That was like, bro, he was doing too much. And then we all talk about him stepping out to Trump. You know, oh, what? >> Yeah. >> Put some chicken. They didn't even know restaurant. They put some chicken. Like we were talking about. Man, let's get into the plot, man. >> Yeah. >> Did the story grab you early or take too long to get going and did the plot feel authentic or did it feel forced? >> Kegai. >> I think the story grabbed me early. Like I said, I really, really like Capri. I feel like the plot, you know, it was Jack Welley. It was really good. It wasn't as much, maybe drama and action is in this one as the other ones, but I still really, really enjoyed it. And, you know, I've been a big fan of Capri, so I really, really enjoyed the plot. Feel like the plot. I had low expectations when I came into this read. I didn't think that there was going to be enough substance for a Capri story. I was wrong. I was wrong. I think it was dope. I like how she knew what the reader wanted. Jack Welley knew what the reader wanted out the gate. And so the prologue kind of, you know, Sanxi gave us a little prologue, but then she hopped right into the story. I thought it was going to be about all of her time in Singapore. And maybe she made a boo over there or something like that. I just came in with low expectations. I didn't want that. I didn't want to read about her in Singapore. And Jack Welley delivered on that. And so soon as you start reading, she's coming back from Singapore. She's on her way back. She's at the airport. Kaffir Donna. Fugging out the little chauffeur. >> Yes, so good. >> Big stuff, quick. >> And you'll put that luggage in my truck. >> You're just looking off the old lady. Kaffir's a wild dude, dog. He's a wild dude. And so it grabs you off the rip. And then the whole plot, it just keeps you from aiming, just making bonehead decisions to, you know, capri, gradually becoming a bonus mom. I hope that's not a spoiler. But I just liked it. It kept me, man, I'm eating popcorn the whole time just listening. Right. >> Yeah, once she came back from Singapore, I was like, okay, how is she going to, like, how are you going to deliver on this, right? Are you going to give us backstory of when she ate rice and she thought about, nah, she gradually boarded along and the supplies when she came home. It was just like, she set it up perfect to where we got enough of the backstory when she, we got enough that we needed, right, for her, from her time away. And then as she came into our fold, it was like everybody's garing up to welcome her home, even though she was surprising everybody. It was just like, we knew that she was welcoming. We knew that she was coming home, but I just think that she did a perfect job in setting up, setting up, setting capri up to come in. And it felt like she didn't miss a beat. You know, I'm at home going to the Ruckus surprise and Jaden at the game, you know, mere and everything like that. And we got our first glimpse of, we got another glimpse of Goon and you know, how funny he is. So I think like how, the way she incorporated people was, you know, was astronomical. >> Yes, sure. >> But we're, we're the twists. >> What fat Joe said. No, we don't want to talk about the Ruckus. >> What a day, what a day. >> What, what are any parts to you that drag, right? Or repeated or felt like a filler, like what we just spoke about. And, were the twist shocking or did you see anything? Did you see it coming? Key good? >> I think the, I think there was a twist at the end where we find out that there's another brother, there's another Delgado brother. I definitely didn't see that coming because, you know, Delgado's are. >> Drop one of the flex bombs for that. But we don't, I don't have the, I don't have the point. >> That really wasn't, I really didn't, I didn't really see that coming because, you know, the Delgado's are really tight knit, closeness family, you know, they take care of their own. So, to find out that there is another brother out there was just kind of really, really surprised. And I was like, wait, you know, and, you know, Capri talks about how, he looks like a poem in Capitana. So, it's like, you know, I think that that is Gene and I forgot the Dazznate. Yes, they're son. >> Yeah. >> I thought that that was a twist. >> I think that was a twist. >> I told you, he's one of those men who wants everybody to know how big and bad he is and he does stupid shit. >> I really. >> Just like 40 was telling him like look, y'all didn't been doing some crazy stuff like the DA is on y'all ass. That's why I've always admired Capone and I feel like he doesn't get his flowers. He takes care of business without putting his family at risk. Capodonna doesn't care choking people in streets, busing people in the middle of the street, and Capella getting arrested at the end. That was definitely a twist I didn't see coming, but he was acting stupid. Trying to argue with a police officer when you know the stuff that your family is into. It's just like who are you trying to prove? You don't have to argue with the police. I just feel like you don't want them on your radar at all, especially with everything else that's going on with your family. You got Capri, that's another thing. Capri being more involved in the business on the legal side of things. She has to be implemented to watch out for the family and this is the shit that Capella is doing. So that was definitely a twist I didn't see coming, but it just, it hones in on the fact that Capella is an idiot. I mean I'm gonna have to go back to work. I'm sorry, I just absolutely hate Kappella and tell me how you really feel. I really, really do. Like he is just such a stupid image. You're a kid. I feel like he is the type your dad is telling you you don't have to be in the street. You don't have to do any of this. And he still chooses to and you don't have to. You see Jaden is going and going to school. Your girlfriend is going to school. And he was very insensitive in this book. But that we can talk about that later. As far as the twist though, I didn't imagine him getting arrested because the delgottos are smart. Okay. He's smart. They know they do illegal stuff. So Kappella getting arrested along with Goon. That part was so stupid. I was like, you idiot. And of course, like I said, they got another brother. I was like, what the heck? You know, so that definitely was a surprise for me as well. What about you, Jue? Love it because like we come into Capri's world, right? And Capri, I feel like she's a super character with her own supporting cast. And it's her own world. Yes, we hear about Capadonna. Yes, we hear about Capon. And then this new brother, I had to kind of, maybe I'm slow. And I hope that people hear my heart when I say that. But I was kind of slow. I had to go back and listen to it again. And again, I was like, am I hearing what I think I'm hearing? Right. I was like, is there another brother? Is there another, who is this guy? Like, she's, okay, let me listen to that again. So I'll probably listen to about four or five times just that laugh. I mean, look at the way he came in. He rescued her. Remember, like, you know, she's leading it. Yeah, I'm a motorcycle, you know? Yeah, who is this dude? Like, yeah. And why are we talking about him? Right, right, right. Mysterious guy. Yeah, that was a dude. That was a little like, that was a crazy thing. That was like her brothers and all of them. Just like, man. And so finding out about a whole nother sibling, that was crazy. But that plot twist. And then a little twist for me was the whole truck scene, like, just seeing. Yeah. It was literally insane. Yeah, man, I feel like this book, it didn't drag to me. I feel like it never lost his identity, you know? The way that J. Quail writes is like, man, it's so balanced. You got the soft romance. You have the family drama that's brewing underneath, especially with this new, this new sibling coming to light, man. And then just the street level tension, it just gave me everything that I needed. And from a J. Quail novel. So as we move on to characters and, you know, do you feel like, and we all wrap, like, we'll go into the character, do you feel like the characters were believable, right? As we follow in, we know we, we, this is our rubric, so we kind of follow it. But in that, we know that we know, we know the other characters, right? From the capidonna, but we don't really know the infernal gods, right? So these are all new characters as we introduce. Right. We only seen Quail male on a certain amount of time. And now we're getting deep into his character. So we know all about the other characters, but all the new characters, you know, between knowing Capri, her new, you have found, you know, I'm saying gross. What did y'all think about them, the main characters and Quassim as well? I think they, they may sense, especially for the story. The fact that Quamear didn't get along with his baby mama, Brandi, tracks, I feel like all of the people, like, you know, I, yeah, he had her save this waterhead. He has this quote where he's like, I want to smear shit on her face. Like, I was like, okay. That's one thing about Jack Quail, Jay. I feel like they do not like their baby mama's like, you know, Erin and Capone, they're cool, but they had that little thing when they just was not getting along, you know, Capidonna and Kendra. And now we got Quamear and Brandi. And so I feel like that track, you know, Brandi was another Kendra, really. I mean, she got pregnant with writer, which is Quamear's daughter. And she was mad and she didn't let him experience that pregnancy. She was literally another Kendra. And then she's super worried about what's been going on. What I did like about Caprice book is that we see the Caprice circle. All of them went to school together. Like Brandi went to school with Caprice. They went to school with Quamear. So it's like, like, yeah, she has a whole other layer. Yeah. I've been even. Yeah. Tookie, right? Tookie went to school with them too. All of them. That's a whole nother group of all of them. Blair, all of them. It's just like it all came full circle. Yeah. That's what I really love that Jack Well wrote Caprice story very well because this is a new cast of characters and they are surrounding her. I feel like in the other books, you just see how she was never the center of attention. In this books, she gets to celebrate her birthday. She has this big skating party because you know, last year, Capitana was coming home. She didn't get to do all that because it was overshadowed. But this book Caprice was the center of it. And I'm sorry, I just, I love that she got her time to shine. And I just love that we got to see a little bit of these are the people she knew from school. Like you know what I mean? And just, and let me also say I love that Jack Well writes characters who they gang bang, but they also are super, super smart. The back. But seriously, like, I love yelling out gang gang. Gang gang. Do you gang bang? Yeah, like that. Like, like, for me, you're having that engineering degree. Quasim being like, you will go to college if you want to join the club. These are educated thugs. Yes. Let's be clear. Quasim is a big brother. He's like, you want to join the IGs? You will get a degree. You're not doing it. Like, you know what I mean? Like, how many street dudes do you know they're telling their brothers? Now they don't want them jumping into me. They're saying go to school, Capri having that degree. I just loved the black excellence. And I love the duality duality duality. Duality duality. Is that video you put out? That video without, I don't know how to say it. You know the duality. Uh huh. You almost there? Like the characters are like more than just one thing. They have all these different levels. So I really enjoyed the new cast of characters. Could not stand brandy. I could not stand the girl. What's the girl? The really rich bitch who was using Jessie? Jessie. Yeah, that's you as Marshall. Yes. Yes. Yes. But she gave us a new cast of characters that I love to hate. And like I said, I just, I love the characters are new so we don't get the same thing. Because I feel like Capitamas was the same as Capone. It was the same characters over and over. This is whole new characters, a whole story. That's why I say this Capri is crazy. And I think that that escalated her writing. Yeah. And put her at the upper echelon because it's easy to go off the back story of what worked before. But now let me introduce you to a no a new host of characters. And let me take you out the street for a minute and let me take you on a political side because I did the street for six to seven books. But now let me take you to the political side. Let me show you that my people are well educated as well. We're not going to just keep on stereotyping them throughout the whole book. I gave you all that part. Right. Now let me give you all something else. But let me still keep it a little bit for what you like. So I felt like the pieces that she put together in this book was fire. That part. And then the whole the piggyback off of you, Jay, let me take you to the university. Yeah. Right. Let me take you to the university in the because we read the series. And so like the episodes that come, I just like how they take you to the university. And I feel like that's why this Capri series. Go ahead, say it. Go ahead, say it. Give it to my favorite. See. Yeah. I know. Because here's the thing I like Capone don't get me wrong, but I feel like Capri was like, I feel like Capone and Capodana. That was like watching the adventures. But this episode right here was as if like, or as like watching X man, I'm going to put it like that. It's like watching X man. You got all these heroes every episode X man. But then it's as if Storm got her own. Yeah. Yeah. And we got to see just how amazing Storm is not in the group. And even individually look at who she is as a character. Yes. I just like I said Capri is definitely a character that deserves her own book. And I'm so happy that Jack Lill did it. Yep. And I like how she layered in the college because it's just like that in it of itself could have been his own point five. Like, let's just go to the college days. Yeah. That could be maybe a whole series like for real because all the like you were his best friend. Like, but who was y'all's least favorite character? I would have to say mine. It's not even Capella. It would have been Capella if Capri's mother Jean didn't piss me the fuck off in this book. She was I she wanted to know no, the fact that she is mad at Capri for not staying with Nahin. She's mad at Capri and the fact that Aaron's not Aaron. Yeah. Aaron's auntie had the teller had the check gene like no, like she's not wrong. But I stand with him. How the hell is another woman going to check you on how you treat your daughter? Jean is trying to get mad at Capri because she didn't stay with Nahin's cheating, lying ass. I just don't get that like your mother. You want the best for your daughter. She's independent. She's got a college degree and your mad because she didn't stay with the nigga that cheated on her had a baby on her with her. I was like, I just I have lost all respect. In the streets. And the fact that Jean is such a mother to everybody else. That's something that Elias says. That's something that Aaron said. These are two women who they don't have mothers and Jean welcomed them. They've got to suck them into her, suck them into her breasts. Have them latching on to one of two of her titties. Like yeah, this is my daughter's in law. She just holds them in. But when it comes to Capri, what do you mean you didn't travel? You've been doing this. You're with somebody else. Girl, my job is this. You got a whole son out here that they don't know about. How you hell you going to talk about Capri? That was a shot. He was trying to get her. He came to Capri because she don't want to stay with Nahin's lying cheating ass. It just really made me upset. I had to mention that because somebody who watched our videos, they were like, I can't wait to see how cute it feels about Jean. And I was like, I don't know what they mean about that. And then I read this book. And I was like, oh hell, Nahin. Like, you're a mother. And another thing. And another thing. So I would say Jean was the character that I just was like, nope, she gets no mercy for me. She's cut off. Like, you mess with Capri. It's fuck you forever. That's why I can't let her. I stand like him I will never forgive King Kay and now Jean is on my shit list So I did not like her, but I want to know who y'all did not like the most in this book. - Good Amy. - Amy what? - Can't stand Amy. Amy keep doing like I need Amy to read the book. Read the book Amy. - Of course. - Like get in the context. - Yeah. - Like bro we not going back to my family. I'm not trying to patch nothing up. - That's not. - I'm a delqado. - But she, you don't get, I talked about this in the last episode. She doesn't have a family and she's wanted a family. You got Erin, her parents are dead, right? Her parents are dead. Okay. Elias has no family. Amy wants to be with her family. She wants to be connected to her family. - But she got to be the room though. They being nice to you. They making you iced tea. - But this Amy is also really young. I think y'all forget that. I feel like she's. - Amy though. Amy want to make everybody happy. - She does. She doesn't want to make people happy. - It was costed $200,000 in Queens. - But she also, that's why I said, that's another reason why I felt like I didn't like a pill. I didn't like capadonna because they said that in this book she needs to get over it. We're her family. Instead of understanding y'all can be her family. Like I feel like the delgados forget y'all are not the only part of this family. They have other family. You can't just erase the fact that she has her and paying from that family. The fact that she feels responsible for the fact that her mom killed herself. - They did it. - Yeah. But Amy, I don't know. I just felt I felt bad for Amy. This entire book. I feel like they wasn't really considering her feelings. They were just very like get over it. And it's just she I don't know if my parents did what her parents did and her brother did. I don't know that I would want to have a relationship with my family especially if they did that way. But this is the only family that I have and the delgados welcomed her in. But remember they welcomed her in and she knew that they were going to kill her brother. That has to fuck with somebody even if he did all this stuff. This is your only family. This is all you got. Like I'm not even talking to my mommy right now. Right. But if somebody did something to my mother. - So is this so is this Stockholm syndrome? Like for real? Because at the end of the day, you know, like where I can't even put just a bit. And so what happened between her brother? Where are my brothers? Was Ace right? And so like Ace did something to her. He said her. - He raped her. Yeah. - Yeah. And so I'm not saying don't forgive. However, you no longer have the same access. Amy gave her family access to her. And that's why I'm not so you find out what Stockholm is. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I had to bro. I don't want to be left. - Oh, Jay man. - I'm not saying that. I'm just saying at the same time, you no longer have the access that you once had with me family. Because you've done some things that I need to go to therapy over. And this new family, they're treating me like I deserve to be treated. They're protecting me. - Are they? - Well, here's my thing. - He has to check her because he's putting lives in danger. - Yes, if you do, when he first met her, yeah, if you turn your back on me, if you betray me, I'ma slit your throat. - Because that's the business there. - But that's not the first threat that he's major. And I told you this when we were talking about Elias book, Capagonna is a rough man. The way he talks to women sometimes is just kind of like, you know what I mean? He'll be like, yeah, you'll bitch. You this. I'm a drown. He's always starting to win. - You know what I mean? He's the ultimate crash out. We were saddened. - He is. - And just the way Amy is seeing this. - She's just more sensitive. And I just think they ignored the fact that they can't. And then this is another thing about the DeGotta. You have to look at Elias. She lives for Capagonna. That's literally like whatever Capagonna wants he gets with her. You know, she's very simple. - Yeah. - But I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. But think about she doesn't have much of an identity outside of the DeGotta. She's looking at her and she's the same way. She is now, Capagonna's wife. She's the mother of his kids. That's her job. And they are comfortable doing that. Amy in this book, member of Capelagot's mad when she has friends like a male friend. You know, he's like, who's that? And it's just like, she's like, nothing's happening. We just, this is my friend from school. She has an identity outside of the DeGottos. And I think that they struggle with that because they are men who like, they want their women. You my woman. You under my roof. This is what you have to do. And Amy is just more like, she's young and she's like, I want to, like, I want to go out. I want to party. Like, I'm young. - But life is, as you knew it is over Amy. And she never really arrived at that area. The DeGottos understand. They say it's up for life because this is the life that we're living. And I don't think, I don't believe, I feel like Amy still wanted to live in her, the old world. - But they are hypocrites because look at, look at what Tasha did. - Just unhield. Tasha did Capri. Look at what Aaron did to Capri and Capone fucked both of them. He actually, you know, I'm not Aaron Ella, Ella, did to Capri what Tasha did to Capri. And they, they both still fuck with it. Like Capone fucked both of them. And they betrayed your sister. They betrayed your sister. Still she betrayed. - They didn't protect Capri. So I feel like they're hypocrites. And now when there's something with Amy's family, they're like, cut them off. Cut them off. I'm like, you had a baby with the obbs. You had a baby with the woman who broke your sister's heart. So that's what I mean. Is there inconsistency, you know, and I feel like, and again, I understand everything you're saying. Amy has to get with the program. But I feel like she doesn't have a safe space with Capone or Capela to express any of the emotional need. Like I want a family. Y'all are my given family, chosen family because I got a baby with him. But I still want a family of my own. Especially, you know, later in the series, her and Capela are going to go through some things. Who does she have? Who does she have? She has nobody. - You're showing her a black boyfriend no more. - But Aaron has her aunt. She has her cousin. Alaya is so wrapped up in Capodonna. She doesn't care. But Amy wants more than just the Delgados. And I think that is what they missed that she needs more than y'all. - So she has, she has, what's her name? What's her best friend's name? They had the yoga studio. It leaves. It's time Blair. She has Blair. I feel like she has Blair. - Yeah. And then they go back to college, you know what I'm saying? And so I feel like Capri has Blair. And she's like, throughout the series, throughout the series, her and Blair, her relationship just gets stronger and stronger. - It does. Yeah. - Amy meets some people. So we'll get back to dialogue. But she's y'all in the realm of it. What about like in themes? Like what stood out of it? Because she was going. You was going to the key. So I want to keep you there. Because you was real introspective of that. - She had to that. Yeah. She's having the key. So you know, when you think about it, think about Amy and you think about her family and the trauma that she's gone with Stockholm syndrome. And then you think about Capri and all of the stuff she's been through. You know, what what themes set out to you? You know, you got love, loyalty, my hustle, redemption, betrayal, independence, independence. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I think that's a really big thing. - Yep. - Did the book like he's like, I'm a, and this is why I want to go to things because Jew says Stockholm syndrome. So that's a cultural thing, right? I don't know. It's a cultural thing and it's a worldwide thing, right? But you know, people who abuse or essay, they normally go back to or they have some type of positivity about the person. - They start forming an emotional connection with their user. - Yeah. Because asin, like you said, asin, Amy. So, you know, I feel like that definitely, that's a perfect example of Stockholm syndrome. She still was rocking with her brother. Still love to him. Like, and still didn't want to do anything to hinder him. So that's perfect. You know, and like, you still want to have a relationship, have this like, man, besides you have a relationship. - We don't have to get it because we don't feel that way. But I feel like no one was in the message. - Was it a deeper message in it? - I don't know. I just feel like, I just, I feel bad. Remember when, um, Capodonna handles the mom and Cappella was like, you know, man, why aren't you having me do that? He's basically like, you know, Amy is your girl. I don't want you to have the lot of her looking at her face and a lot of her. And it's not that I didn't know that, you know, Amy, smile fucked up, ace fucked up, you know, and the grand scheme. - Amy is messed up too. Let's be clear. Amy is to sell her body for money. Let's be clear. And so all the trauma that comes from that. And so she made some decisions that probably stem from the S.A. with ace. - I don't know nothing about that yet. I got here. So you, I'm like, wait a minute. I'm like, wait a minute. - My fuck, yeah. Yeah. So it's a thing. Maybe I'm getting hit. - I still felt like even in the previous books, you know, they just, nobody had Amy's back. That's how I feel. I just feel like maybe where I'm coming from is like, I know Amy's story now. - See, I don't, I'm in the present. So I'm always, you're in the present. You're in the present. - And I have these like feelings that I just, I just, I feel bad for her the entire book. I feel like they just, they did. And again, we don't have to get it because we're not Amy, but there was a part of me that understood, like I said, I'm not talking to my mommy right now, right? We do not talk to each other. We don't have the best relationship. But let's somebody try to fuck with my mom. Like it's some say it's up and it's stuck. Like you're not going to me like, 'cause that's my mommy. And so I just, I understand. - You're about to put points off our family. - Yes. And so I understand that conflict that Amy feels. And I feel like I really want to see Jack Will deal with that more and that conflict that she feels like, yes, she's protected by the Delgados, but at the expense of losing her brother and her mom. And yes, they're not good people. But the Delgados are very controlling and demanding as well. So I just feel like she's just stuck in a rock in a hard place. She don't have nobody. And she wants her fit. And I just feel, I am such a family person. Y'all like, I love my family so much. And my family's not as close as I want us to be. So I understood Amy's need. what I want my own family like the Delgados cannot take the place like I love my husband's family but his mother can never take the place of my mom because she's my mommy you know what I mean and I love her she could say I love you like a daughter but you or not my mother I want my mommy even if she's done ABC she's my mom it feels like mine and so I understood that part of Amy and I just I mean her story made me emotional not gonna lie there was some parts where I was like oh I understand how she feels so I just I don't know I'm sympathetic to her right now but from what Jewel said I'm like I maybe not I'm like wait a minute at some point you gotta be held accountable because she's done nothing in this book that's bad yeah that's what I'm saying in this book she hadn't really done any of those things but just to give up the curse of knowledge yeah it's the curse of knowledge and my thing is just like just keep reading and with me it's just right even in this book since I just didn't like the decision to go and right and it was too early by yourself and by yourself she's a little dizzy that's one thing I was saying and what we thought what the reader thought was gonna happen happened yeah yeah I because I figured that you know I'm gonna have money or something you know yeah they asked for some money they looking at her ring it's like they sizing her up she's like she wanted her family so bad that she over her comments since didn't take over you know she really wanted this is that they want to come back with me oh my guy so I can maybe my mom and brother gone but I still have this part of my family and she really and that's one thing I will say that's one part of her character that really didn't make sense to me as density she is density as hell but she's also this really really good hacker so I was like she literally is written this but then she's a genius hacker so again that's why she's emotionally not acting her point where like a strong hacker community is in breaker yes exactly but emotionally she is not there yet so I don't know I just I'm like she's young too like she's a baby not a number like what almost 40 yeah she's like baby she got a baby she yeah or Amy so we can tie these two together right three and five you you got the dialogue and then you got the setting right you got the speech right you got the slang and then you got the city right the setting of the city right we as we know we already know and reason why I said that because I feel like the dialogue in the city go together because if you're from New York you're going sound like you're going sound like New York right yeah what what what about what about the city this new part of the city right because Capri story is showing she's talking about pasta pasta because she used to be hanging out with the with the West Indians in in college again right which like you say could be another thing and our answer is I'll go on this one I don't know I'm gonna say you guys don't have like this J I only feel like I only feel like Gune is the only real like New Yorker you know I'm saying like I feel like he's like like he remind me of New York like he remind me of New York and and J didn't remind me of New York a little bit a little bit you know I'm saying so but the city right the city's alive the city is just like it's the Ruckel Park you know I'm saying it's the it's the it's the chicken accurate with that accurate percent accurate bro did be outside you need to talk about that. Yeah me tell me from my envy then you got here you got the chicken spot everybody out to the club we had to chicken spot. People in New York like chicken spots. Love the chicken spot. I'm like they're all like corners like yeah like the more they goes in the chicken spots and they yeah yeah I thought that was I'm never even I've been in New York once I don't know the culture but I know that they're chicken spot they love they chicken I feel like every book I read New York is like yes the delisable they goes the chicken spot so I really like the chicken spot was in the king of New York is it all of them right I haven't been in New York movie without a chicken spot see so I felt like the city was alive when Capri was home I felt like it was it's shine more because she was home they're going to allow she doing stuff that the men not doing she's going to have allergies she's doing branches with the girls so she's in the city she's at the beauty salon when everything is popping off she got the you know I'm saying she's a it's just like she is showing this book right here she's the city is alive and Capri book yes yes she's alive she's everywhere she's even in the other cities where she's flying out to these different these different states I mean these different countries she's traveling it's like she make the city full alive she she you know she got the mic so on with the cut off boy shorts you know I'm saying I could just just add the camera the cameras is everywhere because Jayden is getting you know I'm saying so it's just like they're out and about and they're everywhere and it's just make for me it just make the city fit a lot you know I'm saying we bring back the lake house you got Kwame is crib you got grams crib now we got a whole new plethora of houses so it's just making the neighborhood is just making everything it's just wild opening you know I'm saying Jay talk about Jay baby want to go to New York like right now like the new compound is just everywhere I just feel like the only thing I would say like maybe the slang could be a little bit more New Yorkish right when I listen to if you hear my brothers talk you would be like I mean I'm listening to you talk this is Jay when you're hearing my brothers talk I mean it's in the chin my bowl of some time like you know everything you feel me feel me like you feel me that's what you talk like when you talk about that's what I don't be thinking about like that and it's like you'll be told maybe like you'll I'll be like my brother talking my brother there he was like bro these dudes be acting he's like yo bro what am I damn like what are you talking about what do you mean like what are you saying so Jay just got the city like she feel alive but was it anything between those two like that that y'all felt different about from the other books I just like the variety and locations Capri goes everywhere like you know she doing here she going there she's traveling she's with me I just feel like her like I said the delgados is such a close knit community they're so like even the fact that they have a compound where they live up under each other it's just like come on like Capri is not doing that shows that her life is still not in order yes Capri just but she does her own thing I love this like she her she beats her own drama whatever the hell that phrase is you know she does her own thing and I just feel like the city was alive the setting was alive it was dynamic I don't like books that's take place in the same place over and over I feel like Capodon and Capone's it was like at their house or on the highway you know and you know at the store was everywhere at the store when she reminded me she like she like when she said when she came up behind him or Amy came up behind him she was like freeze nigga you want to die and I don't know that that was dope and if you watch the Mac when we're rich a pie it did it and he was like it's like that young blood he like he got to be what he got to be baby you know what I'm saying so you gotta watch the Mac but yeah that's what that reminded me of you know and we still got our own we still got our saxophones right yeah our saxophones it's not a Jack Quill book without a street scene without a highway scene so we got a highway scene we got the saxophones so the city was alive good you feel like something that we need to to talk more about is like the lighter right and as this series goes on this lighter never goes away it's the lighter that he that quimmy or gay Capri they are so cute yeah that's why I said this is the best love story because we have to touch on the low store yes yes go with it because because this dude booked a whole ticket to see her off he didn't go nowhere he just booked a plane ticket so he could get past he just to go so he could buy her and give her a lighter now listen this lighter no all right hold on yeah we got to be quiet jewels the speaker yeah he didn't you didn't give her a fire turn the lights down he gave her he gave her the ability to create fire see I'm just saying man like this is what it is he he wasn't saying I'm your everything he was saying that listen man I'm just reminding you of the power that you have right like here we go is when you already have everything that you need and I want you to have the best year of your life away from all of this man but he has this lighter yep because it's also symbolic of the flame that we are tending to right and that we're feeding it oh my god and so man he talking you know he's saying man it's a lot behind his lighter and yeah yeah yeah he's talking y'all he told me and I love that it's a beautiful symbolic token of just like remember what we have remember what we're building just like you build a fire that's what we're building we're building a flame that's going to eventually as you see as you continue to journey through this series turns into a bonfire and he has faith in her you know the name right the name you you're about to be what you're holding in your hand you're about to be an inferno like man listen I almost felt my chair when he gave her the lighter man because I was like oh they going here with it so I don't even I don't even connect it but that that's and I like what you said to when you said that he gave her the ability to create fire yeah I feel like and because I feel like I feel like a lot of people in the series under estimate could free a lot you know they always are like no could prayer you can't come you can't do this you can't do this wait what'd you say I want to lie I'm sorry I'm listening yeah boy it's about to feel they like get out for real yeah and I love it because it's like man every time you flick that lighter I want you to remember who you are that's what's called flame you are torch don't it was like man, remember your identity. I've been saw it. I've been watching how you move with your family for years. I've been saw. I've been knowing you since college. But man, we ain't gonna get into that, right? No, no, but that's very true. Like, and so I've just feel like he's been seeing something in her before he knew her as a delgado. That's really like that can, you know, set the whole block on fire. He knew it as Capri, the college student, right? And there was a connection. There was a flame even then. Even when he was with a girl, they, even with a little brandy, even with a little brandy, they still had a connection. And like you said, I think that's why Quamir and Capri are perfect together because she is underestimated in the series as many times when she's like, I can handle it. I can do that. And her brothers are always like, no Capri, no Capri, even when she's taking a more active role in the legal side of things, they don't want her involved, you know, but Quamir never doubted her. He never doubted her. He knew that she could handle herself. And he, he gives her like the curse to do it just like going back to what you said, you hit the nail on the head. He gave her the ability to make fire. Like you've always had this in you. I don't like you, you good on your own. I've got this plane ticket not to come with you, but just to tell you goodbye. He respected her boundaries, right? He respected her boundaries. And when a man listen and when a man respects your boundaries, when a man respects your boundaries, he finds deeper ways to reach your heart. Exactly. And he did just that. He was a friend to her when she was overseas. The celibacy, right? Joint celibacy. Oh, I'm so happy you touched on that. He said, look, we don't have to have sex, but I'm going to give you something that's even deeper than sex. I'm gonna give you a flame. I'm gonna give you friendship. I'm gonna give you that goddamn romantic. Don't give him all this credit. Man, he just wanted to be. No, he just wanted to call it. He respected the boundaries. Just the fact that they were in college. Okay, he had a crush, even when he was with Brandy. And just like you said, they built a foundation of friendship. He just gave her all the courage to be who she wanted to be. The fact that she was overseas. She said I heard about. She said he could have asked me to like stay and not go. And I would. And I would. And he didn't. But he didn't know that she needed that time away. And he was like go. And he was there for her the entire time. Yeah, that's maturity now. Call him all the time. They would talk on the phone all the time. And she says a couple times he became her best friend. So not only do they have this romantic connection, but I told you their relationship is grounded in friendship. She knows that he can talk to her and she can talk to him. And I just. And I would say this, that was the one conflict that they had in this book. I feel like a pre wanted for me to open up more than he was ready to. And I respected that about him. He is a father before anything. He wouldn't even let her come around his daughter yet because he was like, I don't I don't know if we there yet. And I don't know if he's here. Literally. You're a big place to act as father. And I respected so much. The fact that no matter how much he likes Capri, there was just certain things that he was just like we we we build it. We build an F-lane, but we ain't all the way there yet. And there was a conversation they have. I don't know if it's in this book or the next, but he keeps it real with her. Look, you you have some going we can carry it and you see how that ended. So I'm not just going to be jumping into this like I want this to be for real. Like I'm looking for my my my I G like my fertile. I just respected the fact that this book. He was a father and he was like he even says it's a quote where he's like I don't have anybody around my daughter. Like I just I don't do that at my time, but my daughter is my time with my daughter. And I respected that. Even when he wants to have a capri, his daughter always came first. Just a man who treats his daughter like that like the queen in power. Like the see someone who could be that ferocious be Jess's gentle with his daughter and the other videos that they used to do and just just see him be that's why I said come here. He knows how to connect. He knows he knows how to connect. He knows how to give me you know the other man in this series. They go to the tension. They want to give pressure. Yeah, just because he de-naimed asked which I've heard about it. I have the guy. He's snuck him. I don't want to hit that. He's glad that naïve. Now the emotional impact is is y'all sounding like y'all old team. Y'all forgot what he did to our boy and y'all just y'all just tell him what team man man. Y'all team. Wait, who's our boy that you're proud of? Just snuck out boy but I'm just saying. Y'all really feeling like. Jay, who's our boy? Who's our boy? Tell me who you're referring to. Who's our boy? To the e to the m. Come on. That's y'all. Yes, y'all's boy. I can't stand naïve. I can't stand his ass. I'm like. You know, I had you to end this. You remember at her skating party where Ken Kay and naïve see her and their mouths are hanging open like dang she looks really good. Like do you remember that part at her skating party? Yeah, right. It really just that even pissed me off. I don't even want to see these niggas. Now he played itself. He played himself for so many ways. So let me go into this. It was a part where I was kind of upset with naïve, right? It was a part where that made me a low upset. Is when she was talking about me. He was talking about that he cheated basically. She had the condos in a wallet, the money and all that and it was like damn naïve. You talking to her crazy. Like this. How I'm going to come on social media and defend you. If you got all the evidence, she's not only saying, yo, I'm leaving. She telling you what can I do to make it better? She's she's saying I will stop studying. She is so funny. I will stop studying. All of her. I can be the wife of you. Yes. And this like damn bro. You make it hard for a person like me. I can't defend that. Like what you wanted to do? I can't do nothing with that. So that part made me emotional where I was like that was the first time. Forget the pregnancy. Do slip up. We're going to eat the first person to get some myos pregnant. We slip up. We just go along how we plan. It happened every day though. But it was the point where she's talking to you. Like please please begging you bro after you cheated. She's begging you after you cheated. And then it's like you're saying please believe in me. Like I love you. We can make this work. Just tell me what I got to do. And I'm like damn bro. I can't go on the pod and defend you like that. So that was the only person that had me like damn emotional. And that's when I was like damn Capri, I really rock with you because you really was. Even though she cheated on them first. That's the story. We'll get to that book when it happens. I'm just saying like I just like damn bro. You can't you you can't do no right bro. Like you got caught not once. That twice but like three times and it's like damn bro. So that's who you are. That's when I started an emotional impact and we'll get to her right and stuff. But I just felt like we was here. That's what I I did care about that. I cared about what happened to Capri. Everything she went through. I started to really like care about her. And that was like the moment that hit hard and it stayed with me because that moment was like damn bro. Like she really was getting dogged out by this dude. But what about y'all for emotional impact? Because y'all was already emotional. I was saying y'all both were just going off about how great man was. So I just let y'all that one. My thing. I was. Go ahead. No go ahead ladies first. Okay. I was just going to say piggybacking off of J's. I think seeing the things that Daheem and Capri went through. It did have an emotional impact on me as well. I've never been a fan of Daheem. Just seeing how me. He kind of Capone tells Daheem that you broke her. She was willing to like stop studying for her bar for school to stay home like what can I do? And you was just kind of like whatever. And the thing is she knew that he was cheating. Even before Tasha she knew and she's still like what can I do to fix this? The fact that he is still and that that's just indicative of how society is sometimes women are expected to give up so much of themselves when it comes to being married. They really do like you're supposed to be home. You're supposed to do this. You want to do this. And any woman who wants to be independent and still have that independence in her marriage is almost like she's punished for it. You know when I was reading some of the reviews for this book and even seeing some of the commentary there were people who felt like you know she wasn't being a good wife to him. You know because she's focused on this. She's not doing this. She's not doing that. And it's just like women still deserve to have their independence even in marriage. Especially when you see Naheeem was doing whatever the fucking one to do. He's out there in the streets. He's doing something to get his ass locked right back up and Caprice just let him do his thing. He was he was out online sometimes too but when it's her it's not allowed. It's it burns more. You know what I mean when it's her because she's a woman because she's a woman she is supposed to just stay home. Suck him up be there to be his sex toy and cook and clean and take care of the house. Well he can do whatever he wants to do. And I just see in there. And there's so much more to her. He's she didn't himself. He didn't even get who Caprice was. And I think also he had this glamorized version of her because she was catering to him when he was in jail and she's and he's thinking when he gets out it's going to be the same way. And she has other priorities. She has things he has to handle and instead of being proud of her instead of encouraging her she she passed the bar. He didn't say she didn't do shit. And then to make it up to her after he admitted that he's he cooked a dinner and he cooks her raw chicken seasoned with pasta seasoning. And it was just like tell her how much you really care. You literally, hey I fucked up. I cheated on you. I literally had a baby. I did all this stuff. Let me make it up to you. Let me say you ain't important without six. And then this is what you do. You got all the money in the world. You could take her anywhere she wants to go. You can have somebody come in. You could have fucking Gordon Ramsay fly her man to cook her a meal. And what do you do? You cook her raw chicken. And then to see everything that she went through. She's begging this man. She's begging him. What can I do? And he's just like anyway, anyway, I got to follow up. Go read your. I got your follow up. And so so my motion, the part that gave me the most emotional impact. And I hate to be the dare horse is still the lighter for me because one thing about a fire, fire does two things, right? It warms and it burns. It could burn. - Okay, come on now, come on now. - And could freeze past relationships? They mostly burn. - They did. - But this time, mirror, he's introducing control fire, if you will, he's intentional, he's safe, he's sustaining. This isn't chaotic love we're talking about right here. It's cultivated love, brick by brick. And for the first time, I feel like mirror is unlocking the side of Capri that no one has ever seen. - Absolutely. - Not even her family. And it goes back to the fire, right? He knows how to use inferno flame, man. This is a deep look by Jackwell. - You can't connect in that, Jules. The fact that he's, I mean, they literally are the inferno gods. I didn't even think about inferno gods. - And inferno gods. - And she's the inferno goddess. And there's a scene later on in this series that really put Capri on the stage where she's given orders. And it's just, it's so beautiful. I can't wait to see the movie Jackwell. They y'all better make a series TV series or something out of this. - Be Jordan. - You knew what I was talking about. - Jordan, you know what I mean? - I feel like, I'm gonna be honest, right? Before we get into this, into this jump, man. - Okay, we going, we going. (laughs) - You ever feel like, you know what I feel like? - I'm not that man, bro. Going after Inspector Deco and Triumph. How am I supposed to follow up after I'm anatomically? And then he like, now you go. And I'm like, we just going in over here, man. - He's like, he's going out with us. - Well, I gotta turn it up. Well, now he's the first man here. And it's like the hands of the air. - Right here. - He just went in. And it's like, I gotta listen to that. And then like, yeah, now you go. - Put your hands in the air. - Did you see what he's doing? - He's just, he's just, - With DM Max, he was like, I'm saying, that's how I feel. It's like, man, you go. And everybody's going after you for a bit. - Everybody's going for me to be like, well, the consciousness of Quasim, due to the mess, man. Like, I don't have that, y'all. That's him. - So don't actually have me to come by, and be philosophical. No, I'm gonna say naim. I'm gonna be like, you know how you get him? - Naim's for Joshua. - You gotta say something, bro. So, yo, yo, man, this is so dope, man. They not mess up. - This is the book, press club. - Baby, God. - I ain't gonna get it to that, 'cause they go saying, - That's what we always gotta let him go last. - Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, I gotta follow this stuff. - We can get a follow up with, - And JZ, now I feel like that, 'cause it's like, now here you go. And it's like, oh, well, here we go. - It's the Kevin Hart meme. It's the two- - I'm in, so I'm loving - Hey, thanks. - We're the five together. So, you already know that. - Come on, baby. - We'll move. - Always, originality, man. I feel like this is new flavor. I ain't even got to say about that. This is just new flavor. - Absolutely. - We just explain everything to y'all about this book, which this book is about. Jew came through with the philosophical. Keith came through with her shining, her night in shining, normal love. So it's just like, - It was very original. And it's different from the other ones. It was, 'cause I told you, "Capadama, the beginning of his felt like Kapon." I mean, their twins, even though they have different personalities, but the stories felt very similar. How they met the women that they love. They see them once. It's like, oh, you're my woman. How they're really going to war with people because they be fucking with their women. Like, they near each other. Capri's a whole new story, whole new cast of character. There's, we're getting more about the inferno guys, which of course is great because Quasim's book is next. Like, the originality just took off. It's stored. It was amazing. I've never read anything like it. And I feel that way about each and every one of your Quils' books. Even the ones that are similar, I've never read another book like her. She is the master with that pen. I'm telling you. What about you and you? Man, listen, man, this is the best. Man, this is crazy, bro. This is the best. It's the best love story, bro. It's the most gross, absolutely, most relatable and real life relationship. That part. You for said, bro, because it wasn't built on trauma bonded. It wasn't built on chaos. It wasn't built on lust. They had a celibacy vow between each other. It was built on identity. It was built on intentionality. Just alignment where I feel like Quarimera did a good, good job of just aligning energy and where they was and just meeting her, where she was and understanding boundaries. He didn't always understand boundaries. He did jump out of that truck when she went on the day where her-- And I was going to get him to that. But he didn't know he was going to get into that, but he didn't-- I was in a truck. I was thinking if I was going to jump out of this-- He didn't say that. He was like, yo, do you want-- He said to the first at least. He said to the first at least. He was trying to-- He tried, though. He said, so I just thought he definitely-- Now, before we wrap this up, y'all, I don't want to miss this one, her writing style. Because I know this is a Jew topic right here. Her writing style, Jew. What did you think about her writing style in this book? Being at-- it's a different version of what we're used to seeing with a woman being in charge now, with the woman at the head of the table of a book. And what did you think? And we'll let Quig go after. It was power. It was-- I love how she elevated the position of a woman. And yes, of course, it's a woman. But we need to see just the power of a woman. And we got to saw that. We got to see that. The power of a woman-- and I say that because this is the same woman who could walk up into the rocker with Jay-Zon and a crazy outfit that turned his, but can also step foot in the courtroom. As we're going to see later, right? I feel like Jack Buckley did a great job at just developing the character of Capri. And I feel like Jack Welles writing in the Capri series is the crowning achievement of this entire Delgado series. Yeah. I should have seen him. What about Chunky? Yeah, I feel like the writing was really good. And I really liked the slower pace. Like I said, it wasn't as action-packed as a recipe. But speaking to what Jules has said, Capri and Quimier's relationship was not built in toxic love. It wasn't made of-- because, oh, they got to fight this person. He has to protect her, arrest you her from any situation, kind of like Capone and Capadonna. Like it was built on love. It was built on trust. The fact that Quimier takes their relationship so seriously, that he has a meeting with his dad, Capri's dad, and both of the Delgado brothers. Like, I'ma come to y'all, man to man. I'm feeling Capri. Do I have your permission? That was on some respect type shit. Because remember-- I love that. Like, what guy do you know was going to do that? And he didn't even have to. They're grown as a dose. Capri is a grown as woman. But he has so much respect. He even bought his own dad. Because he was like, this is going to affect how-- the infertile guys are. We blended families here. Can Kay then think to do that? And you'd work for Capadonna and Capone. And you'd never thought to be like, let me step to them and see if it's OK to mess with. But that is the kind of man that Quimier is. He's serious. He takes relationship serious. He takes Capri serious. He's intentional with every single thing he did. The fact that, like I said, he wasn't just throwing his daughter in Capri's face. I love that even. Because it's just like no matter how much I like you, even if we friends, I got to know we on that level before I'm introducing another woman to my daughter. Like I don't play about that. He doesn't play about fatherhood. He doesn't play about his relationships. I just really, really love that. And I feel like with Capri being the main narrator, it did have like a softer touch. But it still plenty of other points of view to counter that. Yeah, it wasn't reckless. And I definitely think you still get other male point of views as a series. So I think men would still enjoy this series. But just the softer touch, the slower pays, the family, like the way they all go and support Jay, then when he goes to play that game, like you just, you sense it togetherness. And Capri is at the center of all that. I hope people realize that with that story. She is at the center of this family. Like so many people, like she is literally the center. She's connected and helping all these different things. She is literally directly at the center. And to just have her be the focus to get what she wants. Oh, it just, uh, they're writing the fantastic. I feel like the writing also just a piggyback just real quick. The writing around her relationship with Peach was also just crazy sending her up to be a bonus mom. It was sneaky, powerful. She showed, like she showed me her as well as Peach that, man, listen, I'm nurturing. I'm mature. I'm ready for this legacy. Like I'm not afraid of like your children. Yeah, put it like this. I'm not afraid of your situation with your baby mom, you know? And so I feel like this showed an extremely mature side of Capri. She just wasn't falling in love with Quart Mirace. She was falling in love with this family. Yes. And so I think that was beautiful. And we see more of that as the story goes on. And we can't, we can't finish this episode off without, without talking about, you know, Quart Sim. Because he's in the book too, right? Yeah, I feel bad for him. You know, you kind of, we don't know the sentiment yet for Quart Sim. Because we haven't gotten to book two, book one of Quart Sim yet. But just a little bit that Mir shared in this book for Quart Sim. It kind of just shows you, like, these infernal guards going to a deeper level, you know? They do. And Quart Sim is a layer that's definitely going to need to be peeled back, piece by piece, because even as he said it, you know, watching his daughter, watching his daughter perish before his eyes, you know, watching his wife, watching his wife get killed in front of him. And Mir's been able to support him for him. And just to support that, Mir, that's one of the things that I did like about Quart Mir was that, you know, he really showed up for true brotherhood. Like that brotherhood word get passed out because blood don't make you brothers, right? It'll make you brothers on paper, but it doesn't make you, you know what I'm saying? You don't have that, that effect of when it comes to your brother. So him being there and bringing his daughter around to kind of lighten the move for Quart Sim definitely was one of the things that one of the parts that had me hooked. Although it was a sad part, it still hasn't hooked because I was like, that made me more interested in Quart Sim and then move it. But what parts had you guys hooked? I definitely want to say the stuff that happened with Quasim, up my goodness. Like the fact that he was gonna kill himself, you know, his daughter's dead, his wife's dead, his mom's got early onset Alzheimer's, like he was gonna do, like he lost like everybody so quickly, you know, and then he got his little brother, quimner looking up to him and just, I'm telling you, being the oldest and going through things mentally, it has to be the hardest thing, you know, I'm the oldest, you know, you go through stuff, you wanna be strong for your siblings, but when they see you like damn, and just like you said, the way that Quimner had his brother, like he was, he was not gonna let his brother take his life if he could help it. He was there to support him. And just seeing how much, oh my gosh, Quasim likes Blair. Oh my gosh, like he likes her so much, they-- - Blair was doing, I don't know, but Quasim was just acting weird around Blair. - But when I got it, she has cancer, right? She has cancer. - She got cancer too. - So I didn't die from cancer. So just the way the jockwell put that like, she was like, she was in her bag. It was like, but what would they say? - The way that? - You got a album coming out. This is your last you wrapping like you got an album coming out. She was right. - No real. - She was right. - Just that that that contradiction. He likes her, right? But she is suffering from the same thing that took his daughter from him. So he's rightfully afraid. - Yeah, I'm afraid. - He's like, wait a minute, 'cause what if he gets attached? And then she's gone too. There's another person from his life that's gone. I mean, it's only so much a man can take, but I really love seeing how they all thought he was gay. Because he's so pretty. - That was crazy. - That was crazy. - That was crazy. - So disciplined. He was like, I thought he was gay. - I thought he was gay. And Ket was like, I don't know about that. But as we wrap this up, man, like we're gonna go with two key first. He had the Bookfest Club, and I'm saying, we do our book ratings. One through five. - We give them book marks. - Our book marks, one through five, you know, five being the highest, a classic, right? This is the first book in Capri series, right? So being at it's the first book in Capri series, what are you giving it on the scale of one to five? - I gave it infinity book marks. - Over and over and over. - In the book marks. - Infinity book marks. - She's saying like Capri book one. - There's a lot of books out there, Keith. - Anything classic. - It doesn't matter what you're saying right now. - She's giving it the book. Yo, that's crazy. That she's stamping it with a classic. - Are you only gonna, are you only gonna love it? - No. - You only gonna continue loving it. - But you know what I'm not like that. - You saying Capri book one is a classic thing. We got a whoa, whoa, whoa, Nelly. - Jay, Jay is the one. He will be like, no, I can't get the first book five because I got to use them to say. - Because you don't know what's going up and then the rest of the book. - But I rate, I rate each book individually. - Right? - I'm listening. - This book. - Yeah, no, 'cause we-- - So she giving it, this is a classic. - It's a classic. - It's a classic. - It's a classic. - Class in this first. - It was a beautiful-- - You got to see any hearing. - It's a classic. - The connection, the writing, the emotional impact. You see how upset I get about Amy, what she's going through. - Yeah. - How I feel what Capri is going through the book. I was just so emotionally invested. Like I felt like I was in the book and living the lives of the character through Jack Welles, writing. It was just amazing. It was fantastic. I love Capri. That's really like my best friend. That's how I feel when I'm reading it. Like, yes, girl. Like, what's she doing? I'm like, yes, that's the like, and just like when near, it's like, don't be chartering Jesse, no, Jet. I was thinking the same thing. Like, girl, do not give that bitch, don't jet. Like, she do not deserve you. You know, that's how I felt. I felt connected. I felt like Jack Welles has stuck her pin. That was connected to the book into my veins and I just felt like invigorated while with reading it. So yes, infinity bookmarks. If you don't know what that means, that's not five out of five bookmarks. That's infinity. That means the bookmarks never end for this book. As many bookmarks as you can think, that was this book for me. So. - You said Capri is a classic. What about you, Drew? What about you? I get Capri one of 4.5 bookmarks. - Okay. - Okay. - And I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you because let's talk Kwameir, all right? Because this is why this whole story works. This story doesn't work without Kwameir. - That's a fact. - And he says this. He says this and this is a quote from book one. He says sugar deserves someone who was going to put her first for once. - For one, yeah. - That's true. - And Jack Welles just went from there. 'Cause that line right there, that's the thesis of this entire relationship. - Yep. - And she just keeps delivering. - She does. - And delivering. - And you know, Kwameir didn't try to fix pre. He didn't try to possess Capri. He just made the decision that, you know, he was going to prioritize her in a way that no one else has. And man, just man, I'm learning from this guy. Like let's be clear. - Oh, man. - Oh, man. - He's definitely the girl. - He's like, "We're up taking notes, Kwameir." - Like, and that's some things that people don't really want to take from me. As a man reading this book, I'm taking notes from the old three of men that were there. - All of the men that's in here. - There's just stuff that you don't remember. Man, we get so tied up. And I think that this is what Jackwell books do for me as a man. And while I feel like more men should read our books, we get time to stop in our tracks and actually listen to something that we could do for our ladies. - Yes. - And I think that that don't get talked about because we're so much of providers. And, you know, we just moving and grooving. It's just a little stuff, not the big stuff because we can remember anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, they got kids. But it's the small little gestures. It's the small things in the books that make us that we forget sometimes as men because we have a whole lot on our plates and life be life. And so when I listen to these books, just some of the small things in the book, I slide over on my side and I'm like, damn, so she kind of, you know, impact me with that in a minute. But for me, I gave it four stars, right? - Mm-hmm. - Well, four bookmarks. - Bookmarks. - And the only reason why I gave it four bookmarks is because I know the book, are we ready, right? We ready, it's gonna be classics. It's like, what, four, five of these, it's gonna be classics, I promise you. This is just a, we prepare these, the old derbs, right here. - People said it, man. - This is the appetizer. - Right now, this is finished from Applebee's. - You feel me so? - I can't wait, then, if this is-- - It's gonna be classics. - We get to that, Amy's seeing, we get to that, Amy's book, it's gonna be some classics. I guarantee you. - I'm learning this. - So, it's just, I mean, I'm scared of that. - Throughout the whole Delgado series, you gotta think Jack Quayle is getting better. - Yes, I'm gonna say that. - That's the thing. - She's becoming a better writer. - I'm seeing that. - Good news. - You can see it from Capone, one, all the way to this book. And I'm gonna just say this, Jaydon, like when I talk about writing and editing, he didn't, I wrote my eyes, 'cause I thought he was gonna mention this. But let me just say this, the writing was great. The editing was great. It was fantastic. And you just see the improvement. And I think that that is what shows someone who's serious about their craft. - She's really, she's already started like way up here. But just the fact that she's already on this level to upper echelons, and she continues to get better. - If she continues to get better and continue to level up with every single book, do you know how crazy and impossible that is? - It's right, it's right, right. - And they state this, the entire, all their books, one of which Natasha Preston, she's a thriller writer, her books, all are at the same level, every single one. Jack Quayle consistently, higher, higher, higher. And she's already started so high. So that's the thing. You know, and it just keeps getting better and better. And better. - She just keep getting better, man. She keep getting better, man. Is there any part for me got here, for real, for real? Is there any part of the book that y'all feel like y'all didn't get a chance to, you know what I'm saying? Hit the people with. - Just wanna go to the dedication of the book. - The dedication of the book. Jack Quayle said this book was to every woman who has ever lost herself and had to fight to find her again. That's the dedication. You know, and I feel that. - That's what you know what I mean. - That's what you know to me. - And I feel like that was a theme of the book, women finding themselves. Amy, continuing her education, Capri, leaning into this law degree that she has. You know what I mean, leaning into her own. And I want to also say, Jack Quayle supports other women authors. There was this part in the book where Capri is reading. She was reading forever my lady by C. Wilson. And she was also reading, finding my way out of darkness by Brianna Michelle. So this is two other black authors. And I just love that, Jack Quayle included that in the book. I love women who read Capri reads. But just, she's always clever. That was real slick. I love that she just threw that in. So it's just like women supporting women. That's why I said, this book was amazing. Jack Quayle shout out to you. Like I just, it's probably my favorite book of the series. And y'all know how much I love Capone. But Quaymir, it's like Capone, Camir. This is what it is right now. (laughs) - It's like a baby. - It's like right here. So Capone has my heart, but Quaymir, he creepin' up there. - Just wait and see. - You guys happy? Y'all be waiting for Capri. - Look, one is here. You know what I'm sayin'? We got a lot to get into is what? - Got three, four more books. - Mm-hmm. - You know what I'm sayin'? We gonna be bringing it. This is gonna be the, this is how she raised her level up. So now we raising her level up and we just going and getting to it now. Y'all seen the emotional impact today. Y'all seen it, but y'all seen the philosophical, you know, y'all seen the little, the little, the little, y'all seen it all in this episode, man. But y'all, until next time, I'm gonna speak the key to Rita. We got you to the architect, y'all, pace. - Now, peace. - Peace.