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Melody Mayer

Autor(a) de The Nannies

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Lydia, Esme, and Kiley have all just gotten jobs as nannies to the famous and well-to-do in Beverly Hills. Lydia is thrilled to flee her life in the Amazon to watch the children of her tennis-star aunt and lesbian partner. Esme is hired by a TV producer's wife because Esme can communicate in Spanish with her newly adopted Colombian daughters. Midwesterner Kiley becomes nanny to a rock star's children after vying for the position in a reality show. While the life of a Beverly Hills nanny has its perks, the girls still have their own personal issues to resolve. Esme's is the most conflicting: is she "selling out" by leaving her Latino neighborhood and boyfriend behind? Much name-dropping of designer products, exclusive restaurants, and clubs, as well as descriptions of the tony activities of the rich and fabulous. Esme is the only girl with sexual experience while Lydia talks brazenly about what she'd like to do.… (mais)
 
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Salsabrarian | 1 outra crítica | Feb 2, 2016 |
Frustrating lack of depth with characters combined with much stereotyping--definitely not recommending it and really not recommending it to Middle School age students due to content--discussions of very casual sex for the sake of having the experience, no real decision making process for why character decides not to do so. Surprising amount of gratuitous underage drinking as well. ML
 
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prpl_reader_services | 1 outra crítica | Jun 16, 2010 |
Reviewed by Mechele R. Dillard for TeensReadToo.com

As THE NANNIES series rolls along, seventeen-year-old Kiley finds herself struggling to survive the craziness of being the nanny employed by rock superstar Platinum. She must hang in there, however, lest her dream "to graduate from high school in California so that she can attend Scripps Institution of Oceanography as an in-state resident" be shattered.

Kiley's friends, Lydia and Esme, are nannies for other prominent families in L.A., and each girl faces her own difficulties. Lydia was born into money, but her parents decided to move the family from their home in Texas to the Amazon basin to do missionary work when she was only eight years old. Until she moved back to the United States to live with her aunt and her girlfriend, Lydia's only knowledge of the rich, famous, and shallow came from the magazines she was able to confiscate from visitors to the bush. Now, she isn't about to let her life in the States go, no matter what she has to do to keep it.

Esme, on the other hand, has a completely different problem: She is sleeping with her boss's son. Not only does the situation put her job in jeopardy, it is also a point of constant guilt for Esme, who has a boyfriend back home. Besides, she is only the hired help: sleeping with the boss's son is a degrading road to nowhere.

Mayer occasionally tries to make the point that money isn't everything: "She was willing to work. Marym was willing to get paid for the looks that she'd done nothing to earn. There was something very unfair about it" (p. 49). Overall, however, the story is shallow, name-dropping, and requires no real thought to read. But is that a bad thing?

THE NANNIES series is not meant to be ground-breaking literature. It is written to entertain, to be fun, and to be a series of lighthearted "dirt" novels for pre-Jackie Collins fans...and I happen to love Jackie Collins. Mayer accomplishes just what she intends, and she does it well; if I were a fifteen-year-old girl, I would read this, breathless, in one sitting.
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GeniusJen | Oct 12, 2009 |

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Obras
7
Membros
259
Popularidade
#88,671
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Críticas
3
ISBN
23

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