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A review by kricketa
The Nanny Returns by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
2.0
i enjoyed 'the nanny diaries' in a masochistic kind of way- maybe i like to have vicarious victim's complexes through literature? hmm. anyway, i picked this one up for more of the same. the writing is pretty slick & witty, and i enjoy the way mclaughlin & kraus make fun of NYC society. (although, as i am from the humble midwest, some of their references went over my hick head.)
so i spent the whole book yelling at nan to stay away from the x family- essentially she becomes their nanny again, only unpaid, but otherwise there would be no book. so. and then she's in this horrible job doing horrible things for horrible people and totally compromising her morals, but this isn't really addressed that much, because the job just disappears in the end. also, she's supposedly having all these problems with her marriage, but her husband is in africa on business. so then i'm yelling at nan to just chill out and wait until ryan comes back from africa before she decides she's headed for a divorce.
in summary, a lot of drama and yelling, and we must sadly conclude that nan did not learn her lesson the first time around. skip it unless you really loved 'the nanny diaries.'
so i spent the whole book yelling at nan to stay away from the x family- essentially she becomes their nanny again, only unpaid, but otherwise there would be no book. so. and then she's in this horrible job doing horrible things for horrible people and totally compromising her morals, but this isn't really addressed that much, because the job just disappears in the end. also, she's supposedly having all these problems with her marriage, but her husband is in africa on business. so then i'm yelling at nan to just chill out and wait until ryan comes back from africa before she decides she's headed for a divorce.
in summary, a lot of drama and yelling, and we must sadly conclude that nan did not learn her lesson the first time around. skip it unless you really loved 'the nanny diaries.'