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I love psychological thrillers and haven't read one that I haven't liked - even if I didn't like how the story progressed or ended. Until now. This book was so dry to me. I could not become emotionally attached or relate to any of the chsrscters. After reading the whole book I still feel like I barely know anything about any of the characters. The descriptions of them and their actions were so vague and plain that they never felt like real people. I didn't get sucked in and lost in their world the way I do with other books. Many questions were left unanswered and not in the good way that makes you think and fill in the blanks with your own made up scenarios. It was like reading a newspaper about a historical crime where the journalist didn't have much info and you think "this could be interesting but it's so blah that I'ok forget about it in five minutes anyway." The characters and plot progression could have been a lot better. There was a lot of unnecessary information too - as if it was filler info. Not enough to tell you more about who these people are or why it was even relevant to the story. I thought I would be angry with the nanny, and upset about the children dying, and feel heartbroken for the parents, but this book left me emotionless. I wouldn't recommend it.


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The Perfect Nanny A Novel Leila Slimani Books Reviews

Starts off with a great story line and then veers off to who knows where! At the end I felt I had wasted my time reading The Perfect Nanny!
Totally lost me
While the book is well written it is amazingly down/depressing and completely unsatisfying in every way. While there can obviously be no reasonable explanation for such a horrendous act, the author continuously teases that there is something to be understood about the Nanny that will subsequently be explained, other than a stock mental break down explaining very little. Please be aware there are no great reveals or insights coming and don't read this unless you want to be completely unsatisfied and depressed at the same time.
It was a well written story about a poor, single French woman who becomes a nanny; she is unskilled, uneducated and does not fit in anywhere. She is depressed and tries to worm her way into an immigrant family. She becomes very useful to them putting on parties for their friends and going on a vacation with them. She has no other friends and cannot fit in with the other nannies who are mostly immigrants. It becomes a case study in mental illmess, so I did not enjoy the book.
It isn't as good as I expected. I did see the author raised a social issue. And we understand that there should be a stronger social support system for the people who live on the margin of subsistence. But how to screen for mental health issue, to make sure every nanny is and will be stable. It's not anyone's fault, surely the author tried to depict Louise a victim also by her situation, still not every desperate person kills little children.

Also, the transition of the nanny from a diligent worker to a murderer wasn't all that convincing. She didn't seem to be a psychopath in the beginning, but gradually was losing her mind, refusing the help offered to her by her employer ?

Perhaps, the author meant to throw a question/ problem, with a warning that this nightmare could happen to any parents.
This was a compelling, quick read that in addition to its thriller aspects really had some interesting perspective on the wide-ranging class issues at play in the relationship between the nanny and her employers. Both sides are represented with complexity; despite some bad acts on both sides (some worse than others), all characters are sympathetic in some ways. The author has a great eye for tiny details about everyday life, which often highlight the social hierarchy in the house even as the parents try to show how egalitarian they are to the nanny. My only complaint would be that the English translation sometimes sounds like a translation--certain phrases in dialogue are awkward, and if you know some French you can sort of imagine what the original dialogue probably said and imagine how it could have been translated more naturally. I translate a lot in my job, so maybe I'm more aware of this and it wouldn't bother others as much. In any case, I enjoyed the book and didn't want to put it down.
The baby is dead. We know that from the opening sentence. And so the focus will inevitably be connecting the dots between how Louise, the seemingly perfect nanny, could be responsible for such a horrible crime.

Unsatisfied with life as a stay-at-home-mom, Myriam returns to work at a local law firm. With Myriam and her husband Paul both working, they decide to hire a nanny to watch their children, Mila and Adam.

At first, Louise seems like a godsend not only is she wonderful with the children, but she cleans the house daily and doesn't seem to mind when Myriam and Paul are increasingly absent.

There are little signs early on that there's something slightly off about Louise—a vague sense of menace, a cool indifference—but these are only apparent to us, the reader, at least in the beginning.

The Perfect Nanny is a character-focused psychological thriller that smartly addresses universal themes ranging from motherhood and domesticity to class and race. It explores the increasingly uncomfortable power structure between Louise and the parents, and the passive aggressiveness that mounts on both sides is downright uncomfortable.

I'm struggling with how to rate this one—it's really between a 3 and a 4 for me. The writing is solid and the subject matter is interesting; and I'm always appreciative of a literary psychological thriller. But I never felt like I couldn't put it down or like I just had to know what would happen next.
An interesting read. Please do not buy the hype. It will entertain for an afternoon, but it is not some stunningly great novel-of-the-year. Truly suffers from overpraise. Decent Summer or rainy-Wednesday activity.
I love psychological thrillers and haven't read one that I haven't liked - even if I didn't like how the story progressed or ended. Until now. This book was so dry to me. I could not become emotionally attached or relate to any of the chsrscters. After reading the whole book I still feel like I barely know anything about any of the characters. The descriptions of them and their actions were so vague and plain that they never felt like real people. I didn't get sucked in and lost in their world the way I do with other books. Many questions were left unanswered and not in the good way that makes you think and fill in the blanks with your own made up scenarios. It was like reading a newspaper about a historical crime where the journalist didn't have much info and you think "this could be interesting but it's so blah that I'ok forget about it in five minutes anyway." The characters and plot progression could have been a lot better. There was a lot of unnecessary information too - as if it was filler info. Not enough to tell you more about who these people are or why it was even relevant to the story. I thought I would be angry with the nanny, and upset about the children dying, and feel heartbroken for the parents, but this book left me emotionless. I wouldn't recommend it.