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limeykiss's review against another edition
3.0
I got a bit lost in the details of her producing project and found myself skimming some of the paragraphs explaining the minutiae of it. I also wish there were more scenes of her and Peter interacting, and more scenes of Peter and Dylan together. It felt like so much of the book happened off the page.
book_concierge's review against another edition
1.0
1.5 stars
Trite chick lit. Weathly over-extended Mom living in Manhattan with power-hungry attorney husband, hires a "ski bum" to provide male role model for 9-year-old son who is over anxious. I didn't quite finish because it was due at the library and just too ridiculous to renew.
Trite chick lit. Weathly over-extended Mom living in Manhattan with power-hungry attorney husband, hires a "ski bum" to provide male role model for 9-year-old son who is over anxious. I didn't quite finish because it was due at the library and just too ridiculous to renew.
babyruth510's review against another edition
1.0
I'm not sure what I was thinking when I tried to read this...I thought it would be a quick mindless read but I couldn't even make it past 20 pages.
emjay24's review against another edition
2.0
I borrowed manny by Holly Peterson from my friend, who had read a couple chapters then got bored. I originally picked it out from the store. I thought it would be like the nanny diaries but as a guy. It wasn't. the book is from the rich woman's point of view, with the manny always telling her how ridiculous everything is, and her denying it. She didn't grow up as rich, so she thinks she's above it all, but she's obviously not. This could have been interesting, but the writing is pretty dry. You shouldn't have to work so hard to get through a chick lit genre book. It's like when you're in college, and the subject could be interesting, but the people who write the book that your professor assigns you always try really hard to make it boring. That is what the author did here, probably not on purpose like those textbook writers. I didn't like any of the characters, and I felt like I was reading a book by gossip girl people (a show my roommate b makes us have on the tv). It's not a horrible book, it's just not very good. Try it and see what you think.
bellawinterbooks's review against another edition
2.0
Okay. So this book wasn’t very good. The main character Jamie, is a “part time” producer on a network show and somehow makes 6 figures to literally never be doing her job because she’s always leaving to do random stuff and yet she somehow lands the biggest story of the year. Then you have the manny who speaks to her (his EMPLOYER) like trash and is somehow always around doing everything but taking care of her son half the time. Like they go to a beach house to pick up random stuff and he makes her go to the beach with him and she just goes. He started out getting hired to do part time work and yet he’s at every function? They paint the husband as an insufferable dude and that she has no emotional connection to but won’t just leave. Literally everyone tells her she’s being inappropriate and she still thinks it’s cool to have this manny around. The manny consistently tells her things he does with her son and she acts surprised and says “why didn’t you ever tell me you did this with him” and his response is always “you don’t need to know everything your son does.” Ummm no. If a grown male on my payroll was with my child and told me it wasn’t my business what they do he would have been fired immediately. He taught her son the word pu**y and not a single adult in the room corrected that behavior at 9 years old. This legit doesn’t make sense to me at all. I made myself finish this one but to be honest, it’s not that great. Hate to be the bearer of bad news but I don’t think I would recommend this one.
jvogt's review against another edition
2.0
I liked this book. I enjoyed the romance and it seemed realistic enough. It was fun to see the lives of the uber rich.
luna_loveslove's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
ela_35's review against another edition
1.0
This book was not a romance. Sure, there is a manny who comes in at around 14% but the main characters don’t really spend time together to get to know each other.
Also, Jamie is married throughout the whole book. Jamie and Peter don’t really spend time together and if they do it’s usually really short and they don’t really talk about important things. Jamie keeps sleeping with her husband but when Peter gets a blow job, she acts like he betrayed her when they never even really talked to each other.
I hated Jamie and her husband for the kids. Both of the parents worked non stop and the husband barely paid attention to them.
The husband was a rubbish father and husband but Jamie was a doormat. She would say something about maybe leaving him or she would tell him that she doesn’t agree with something that he’s done and when he would ignore her completely or belittle her, she didn’t say anything. Also, at the end Jamie’s husband asks her to cover for him because he did something illegal or not completely honest and she still agrees to stay with him even though she just slept with Peter. How did she think that would work? That she would stay married and keep Peter on the side?
There are some side characters but they are all in the background a lot as even if they interact with Jamie, you never really get to know them.
Jamie and Peter never really get together in this book and on the very last page it’s implied that they will see each other in the future.
I really hated this book so I don’t think that I’ll want to read any other books by this author.
Also, Jamie is married throughout the whole book. Jamie and Peter don’t really spend time together and if they do it’s usually really short and they don’t really talk about important things. Jamie keeps sleeping with her husband but when Peter gets a blow job, she acts like he betrayed her when they never even really talked to each other.
I hated Jamie and her husband for the kids. Both of the parents worked non stop and the husband barely paid attention to them.
The husband was a rubbish father and husband but Jamie was a doormat. She would say something about maybe leaving him or she would tell him that she doesn’t agree with something that he’s done and when he would ignore her completely or belittle her, she didn’t say anything. Also, at the end Jamie’s husband asks her to cover for him because he did something illegal or not completely honest and she still agrees to stay with him even though she just slept with Peter. How did she think that would work? That she would stay married and keep Peter on the side?
There are some side characters but they are all in the background a lot as even if they interact with Jamie, you never really get to know them.
Jamie and Peter never really get together in this book and on the very last page it’s implied that they will see each other in the future.
I really hated this book so I don’t think that I’ll want to read any other books by this author.