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Friends with Benefits: A Nannies Novel

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Just like the first book in the series, Friends with Benefits is filled with the same cliches found in The Clique, Gossip Girl, and The It Girl. Girls shop and go to parties, meet boys, have a misunderstanding, then get back together with said boys. However, I was still greatly entertained by the second novel, and read it in a couple hours. I highly recommend it, but read the first book first!

This book was awesome! its was just as good as the first one, probably better. Theres a lot more action and a lot more problems. Platinum gets even crazier causing a whole lot of trouble at just the wrong time. Will Esme end up with Junior? or Jonathen? and what happens to Junior that makes Esme second guess Johnathen? Ready for the juicy details...read the nannies friends with benefits and find out. Youll be hooked!

I stumbled upon this series and thought the first book was ok. I decided to check out the second book to see what became of these girls. The second book insults my intelligence and I felt like I should be paid to read it. The entire book goes by and hardly anything takes place.

I'm a fan of light reading as much as the next girl but this book literally had zero substance. I can't believe someone actually published this.

Worse yet, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned this - at the end of the book, Esme mentions feeling that tingle and that she's got a cold sore coming on. Ten minutes later she's making out with her boyfriend. I don't expect books and celebrities to educate kids but anyone who knows anything knows what she'd be in the perfect position to infect her boyfriend with her lip herpes if she's about to get a cold sore and she's kissing him. What a stupid thing to put in a book.

when i read the clique i thought there was no book better. haha boy was i wrong! this series is great. the author channels what its like to be a teen and i think thats important!

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.

Reviewed by: Mechele R. Dillard