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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

December 18, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Why would a woman kill two children who, by all accounts, she adores? I mean, being a Nanny is hard, but, especially when you are working for such a fine family… who does that? There is a lot of good in this book even if, at the end of the day it really wasn’t my favorite. I was on board up until the last third. I think part of it was that Slimani had basically built up a situation that was high stakes enough that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Fiction, Leila Slimani, the perfect nanny

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Fiction, Leila Slimani, the perfect nanny ·
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They had to save the other one too, of course.

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

July 1, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

From my star rating, you can tell that I didn’t particularly like this novel. It’s really popular, sold a lot, won some prizes, and people seem to like it. I think it’s oddly generic and splits the difference between a serious literary novel, which I don’t think it quit gets to, and a good thriller, which it doesn’t quite get to, and takes the least good from each and coming up with a not particularly interesting novel. Some stray thoughts: in one way, this is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Leila Slimani, the perfect nanny

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:380 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Leila Slimani, the perfect nanny ·
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