Despite its seeming like another Devil-Wears-Prada plot embedded into a different job industry perspective, the book was a page-turner. However, the disappointing ending has made me completely dislike the book overall.
The protagonist is a passive-aggressive and witless young woman who just lets people exploit her inability to be confrontational. The object of romance bears the single redeeming quality that he is a Harvard Hottie and seems to like her back. Just about any woman in the book, including the antagonist but maybe excluding the protagonist’s mother and grandmother, is somehow treated like cheap socks – useful for a while but eventually disposable – and just puts up with it. Lame attempts at humor could make comedians lament.
We don’t ask for a happy ending. However, it seems the writers are trying to somehow come to a resolve. This, true to the protagonist’s personality, is done in a passive-aggressive manner and I am sorely disappointed in this fictional character for how she put up with nine months of bullshit and did nothing about it when she was given nothing to show for her hard work. I’m not saying she should have sought some sort of good revenge (even though I rightfully expected one as the back-cover had promised, “Nanny’s acquiring the power of revenge…”). The girl should have just been more face to face about the money she was owed and, if she was getting fired anyway, she should have said whatever the hell she wanted.
Maybe my demands are beyond reach in the world where nannies must contend against the upper crust of New York. I’m just saying… if Nanny’s got no choice but to be a pansy about the whole thing, then don’t promise me “the power of revenge”.
Kthx.
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