A review by bookreviewswithkb
The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani

dark tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

this year i have been working my way through the diversity across genres challenge and it has thoroughly pushed me out of my comfort zone, reading genres i typically wouldn’t. thrillers are definitely not my preferred genre so take my review with a grain of salt 

what i think can be easily missed is that this novel is trying to reckon with class differences, societal divisions based on race, and the ways that wealth can afford you the opportunity to have someone else, someone with less privilege, do the things you don’t want to do, the things that might drain our lives of purpose, the things that are redundant and repetitive. and when we are subjugated to the edges of society, to doing the things that no one else wants to do, we can become lost within ourselves, struggling to care for our mental health, sinking under the weight of depression, leading us to make horrific decisions 

this really reminded me of The Push by Ashley Audrain. it is engaging and disturbing and intense