Book Review: Cinder Nanny By Sariah Wilson

Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy
Published in
3 min readAug 21, 2022

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Rating: Four out of Four Hearts

Ease Of Reading: Smooth and easy with clearly defined plot points. 319 pages.

When To read: Beach, rainy day, during In-Law’s visit on your phone while pretending to do Wordle.

Author Sariah Wilson gets my vote for one of the best ABOUT THE AUTHOR’s page I’ve ever read. It’s funny, with a tincture of snark, an extra helping of earnestness, and the perfect amount of selling.

I first became familiar with Wilson when someone gave me her earlier novel, The Seat Filler, which was an excellent romance novel. You’d think that as a baby boomer man that I would not be the ideal audience for Cinder Nanny.

Would it surprise you to know that about 18 percent of romance novel readers are men? I happen to be one of them. Anyway, Cinder Nanny checks all the boxes for a solid romance novel. The novel resides comfortably in the genre and doesn’t try so much to surprise the reader with twists and turns, but delight the reader with the familiar tools of a romance novelist.

In this case, Diana Parker, the heroine, has a sister, Alice, who needs a kidney, has no health insurance and is battling a contentious ex-husband. Diana also shares an imprisoned, con-artist mother with her sister. When Diana takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy…

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Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy

I am a South Jersey-based writer who manages Podcast Reports on Blogger and have a book available on Amazon about podcasts and podcasting called “Ear Worthy.”