{"id":2211,"date":"2022-04-07T23:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:45:17","slug":"someone-had-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Someone Had to Do It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers: Wondering how to keep crime fiction relevant, cutting edge, and appealing to younger millennials and older Gen Z? Then take a page out of the impressive debut Someone Had to Do It. Brandi may have landed her dream job unpaid internship at the fashion house Simon Van Doren, but she wasn\u2019t planning on the microaggressions and reminders that as a young, Black woman she doesn\u2019t fit into the culture (\u201ccode for we-can\u2019t-handle-your individuality but-since-we-don\u2019t-want-to-seem-racist-we\u2019ll-invent-this little loophole\u201d). But Brandi\u2019s tenacious\u2014she\u2019s also putting herself through fashion school\u2014and with a little help from dreamboat boyfriend Nate, an up-and-coming football star, she manages to hang in there. When Nate offers to put in a good word with Taylor Van Doren, Simon\u2019s daughter\u2014they go back to prep school\u2014Brandi can\u2019t say no. Taylor\u2019s an it-girl, a model and fashionista who has it all and then some. While Brandi hopes that friendship with Taylor will help launch her career, the opposite happens.<strong> Taylor\u2014the absolute best villain I\u2019ve read this year\u2014sets Brandi up for a fall where she risks losing everything she\u2019s worked so hard to achieve. This is one smart, hot, bingeable read that\u2019s got<\/strong> Attn: Netflix stamped all over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers: Wondering how to keep crime fiction relevant, cutting edge, and appealing to younger millennials and older Gen Z? Then take a page out of the impressive debut Someone Had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[104,57,55,144,50,51],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-african-american-black","tag-domestic","tag-mystery-detective","tag-own-voices","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Someone-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Someone.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}