This book was pure campy fanboy and it leaned into it so hard. You gotta honor that commitment. Nick is a sweet precious cinnamon roll (albeit an oblivious one) surrounded by a community who loves him. This book had so much potential to go wrong, with a straightforward plot and the close relations to the police, but it didn't. Everything that you might view as a shortcoming was instead embraced more as a trope. And that in itself was a twist enough for me!

Sometimes you just want to read a happy book, and this was that.