My Summer Reading book 4

Title: The Nanny Diaries

Authors: Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

This novel really had me at a cross-road of emotional deficit. While I really loved how Nanny's relationship with Grayer, her charge, greatly improved and at times had funny scenarios with great endings, I still found the main basis of the plot to be weak. Her name Naminia was a much better name than her nickname, which is ironic given her profession, Nanny. Wow! How creative. I would have preferred her to use her real name as opposed to the nickname.

The story itself, which is where my issue really lies, is a good idea but, I feel the authors, who were nannies themselves, could have put more effort as to the plot. They could have written that the wife does find the mistress's panties and had a complete nuclear meltdown. That would have been much more entertaining to read as opposed to the wife just living in denial. However, I did like that the wife did indeed know but, still chose to act like nothing was wrong. Which most cheated on spouses do in reality. So, I guess I just contradicted myself, but I digress.

My favorite character had to be Grayer. The driving force that held the novel together for me. If would not have been for him I probably would have given up on the book in its entirety. I thought the way he treated Nan at the beginning was genius and hilarious. I hated his mother and father for leaving their child raising to a nanny they barely knew and did not fully trust. Also, the way they treated their help appalled me and I wanted so badly to just smack them up side their thick skulls with a teddy bear and yell until my head exploded.

All in all, the book was o.k. It did have me laughing and crying at times but, most of the time I was bored and wanted the story to have more plot to it.

80/100