Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Nanny Dearest
AUTHOR: Shawn Bailey
PUBLISHER: Amber Allure
LENGTH: 94 pages
BLURB:
Cosmetician Hunter Monroe is the busy single father of a precocious one-year-old son, Chase. When his nanny resigns, Hunter is left in a lurch until his friend, Adam, suggests the short-term solution of using their family’s babysitter while interviewing new candidates for the position. To Hunter’s surprise, Adam’s solution is a handsome twenty-three-year-old male college student named Terry—not the type of person Hunter expected to have watching his son.
While other applicants for the position fail to meet Hunter’s expectations, the temporary babysitter impresses with his cooking skills and childcare knowledge. Chase makes the decision that Terry is the one he wants, but has Hunter also grown attached to the attractive nanny?
REVIEW:
This book probably benefited from being the one I read directly after The Family We Make, seeing as I couldn’t handle anything at all serious for like a day after I finished that book. I dearly needed low-angst, pure-fluff, and this book certainly has all that.
Hunter is in desperate need of a nanny. His last one went and got (inconveniently) married, and somehow trying to run a business and trying to take care of a one-year-old, don’t seem to work all that well together. So when one of his friends tells him that his babysitter can take Chase off of Hunter’s hands for the night, Hunter is extremely relieved. He just didn’t realize that Terry, babysitter extraordinaire!, was a guy, not a girl–or that keeping his hands off said guy would be rather harder than he thought.
This was a really quick read, with hardly any angst at all. There was a bit of a thing with Chase’s grandparents, but in the end that gets resolved rather nicely, and everything comes up all roses and frollicking rainbow-colored unicorns by the end.
I think my main problem with this book is the number of cliches it decided to throw at us, at any given moment. Especially when Hunter was interviewing the nannies (a tall, thick, stern, blonde lady named Inga? Really?). I just found myself repeatedly rolling my eyes at the things that happened in this book. And while I am thankful that this book didn’t drag me thru angst hell, a little more variety would have been nice.
Also, while the whole ma-ma thing with Chase and Terry was adorable, the constant attention that Terry got because of his hair started to get a bit boring by the end of the story. It was fun and interesting the first few times it a happened but when it happens every scene, I very much want to just tell them that I get it, now can we move on please…
Still, cute story, with a very cute (if probably demon-possessed) kid.
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