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Title: The Perfect NannyAuthor: Leïla Slimani, Sam Taylor (translator)
Published: 2016
Language: English (translated from French)
Pages: 228
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
A couple living in Paris thinks they've found the perfect nanny to care for their children, but slowly their lives become so entangled, the idyll shatters.
Review:
I have kind of mixed feelings about this book and I find it a little hard to explain what I really think about it.
I quite enjoyed reading this, although there are definitely some dulls parts in here. I think the setup of the story is good and I like how we get to see how it ends first and then we read on to see how it got to that point. There are moments in here that are deeply disturbing and I generally quite enjoyed getting to know the characters and how they relate to one another. There's a lot of tension in the relationships in this book and I really like how we got to feel that.
That being said, now that I've finished the book and put it down, I feel kind of dissatisfied and I didn't feel like we really got into why everything ended the way it did. I think the book starts off really well, but it gets a little lost towards the end.
So I feel very ambivalent about this. It was an interesting read but I don't know, it just didn't quite make it to the finish line for me.
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