Nanny Returns
Authors: Emma McLaughin and Nicola Kraus
ISBN: 9781416585671
I was super excited to read Nanny Returns because I absolutely loved The Nanny Diaries (see my review here). I was shocked and surprised when I found myself skipping through pages and shaking my head while reading this one…more on that in a bit.
Nanny Returns tells the story of Nan, our favorite NYC Nanny 10 years later. Now married to Harvard Hottie Ryan, Nan returns from traveling the world with her husband to settle back into NYC.
One night, a 16 year old Grayer (Nan’s former charge) drunkenly stumbles to her NYC apartment demanding to know why she left him. Nan finds herself once again falling back into the crazy world of the X’s.
Okay, so the premise of the story is good. I’m excited to learn to more about what Grayer (and his new brother’s) lives are like. I can’t wait to see Nan handle the situation. But then, I’m confused.
A whole new plot of Nan’s freelance consulting for a private NYC prep school is introduced. I have no idea how this even connects to the plot of the story and I found myself flipping pages ahead just trying to get to something more interesting.
I shake my head as Nan once again gets way too involved in the X’s lives. The book brings up the issue of parental neglect and Nan takes over as Mrs. X lacks in the parenting department and Mr. X is nowhere to be found. Some random character (Mr. X’s girlfriend..I don’t remember her name- guess she wasn’t that important) is introduced and I am again confused.
Honestly, I don’t really know what else to say in this review. I flat out didn’t like this book. I didn’t understand the direction it was going in and I was disappointed. In the first book, I was literally laughing out loud and finished the book feeling completely touched and I finished this one sort of feeling thankful that I made it all the way through. Yikes.
1/5
So disappointed! I just ordered the Nanny Diaries because I wanted to read this after.
But now I'm just super bummed!
I LOVED The Nanny Diaries but hated their next book. I would have considered buying this one but probably decided against it – after reading your review there's no chance I'm going to buy it!
That is a bummer. I was surprised to see there was a sequel because I felt like the Nanny Diaries really wrapped everything up and well, I guess there really didn't need to be one after all!
I ended up returning it at the library without reading it. Have you read any of the other books by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus? I loved Dedication.
That's awfully disappointing to hear! Although I'll probably wind up reading it anyways. Hopefully I like it a little better.
I am disappointed to see the reviews on this one – they have ranged to mediocre to pretty bad!
I loved the Nanny Diaries too, so thanks for the review, I will give this a miss. There is nothing like a bad sequel to ruin a good book!
I quite liked The Nanny Diaries too, but this one does sound rather strange so I think I'll give it a miss. Thanks for the honest review!
So sorry you were disappointed with this one! And I had the exact opposite reaction to it, haha. I absolutely loved it and read it so fast… I'm wondering if maybe my reaction differed so much because I had not read The Nanny Diaries first?