The Nanny Share is about two 4 year-olds who go missing on the same morning. The lives of multiple people including both the girls nanny Julie, begin to intertwine. This book was good or rather okay. I felt that the characters were a bunch of rich people and the only one who I ever thought really cared about the children was Nealy's mom Allison. I just felt she was quite simple and conceited too. The questions the book answers was the great part but, I feel that it slowed way down before punching me in the face the last 4 or 5 chapters. The development of the book was okay and I feel like that the focus became too much on the other people then finding the girls. Because if my 4 year old was kidnapped I wouldn't be trying so hard to be mad over something else.

Full of tension and suspense this book had me on the edge of my seat, I couldn't put it down and read it in a couple of hours. A fantastic read

Oh my gosh! Emily Shiner just stays at the top of my ‘go-to author’ list! I tried to wait and read this closer to pub date but just couldn’t help myself. Deliciously dark and tense. It was impossible to know who to trust. I guessed wrong so many times. Don’t let this gem pass you by.
Thank you NetGalley, Emily Shriner and Bookouture for the opportunity to read and review this book.

OMG!!! This. Book. THIS BOOK!!!! The Nanny Share by Emily Shiner will be taking up space in my head for a long time. It was the very definition of unputdownable!! I started at dawn and finished before the sun went down.

Welcome to the posh, gated community of Blackwood, the safest neighborhood in town. The lushness and rich ambiance does nothing to keep the evil locked behind these gates. Neighbors, the Everetts and Browns are best friends until they're not. When both of their four year old daughters go missing, the race is on to find out what happened to the girls. The common link between them is their shared Nanny, Julie. Can she help to find them or is she the reason they went missing?

This book was a masterpiece. Kudos to Emily for making characters with such depth and realness you actually feel hatred towards them. The lies, deceit, secrets, and backstabbing start on page one and don't stop until the end. I don't think any of them would know what the truth was if it bit them in the butt. The story takes place in one day and is told through multiple perspectives. The chapters are short and easy to fly through. The writing is smooth and flows rapidly and there is no lack of drama in the entire book. A MUST read for psychological suspense lovers!

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the advanced copy

I was selected as an ARC reader for The Nanny Share. If you are a fan of Freida McFadden’s you will find yourself captivated by the twists and turns of this book. I would say some of this outcome was predictable, from the beginning I had an idea who the problem stemmed from. Just when you thought there wasn’t anymore to figure out or any lies that haven’t surfaced yet, boom…another one appears. The ending really put a spin on things though even though I had some of it figured out and I think that is what made this book a win for me. 4.5/5 stars for sure. Thank you Emily Shiner, for allowing me the opportunity to read and review this book prior to release!

The Nanny Share is a gripping psychological thriller by one of my favourite authors. I was hooked from the start, and couldn't wait to see the final twist. The book had me gripped, and I found myself questioning things at every chapter. I could not believe the ending, and definitely did not see it coming. I really enjoyed this story, although some of the characters are very annoying and deserve what they get! The ending is shocking and makes you rethink everything. Definitely a great book. I am a huge Emily fan and will always read her books.

Everyone on this book is a liar! There was so much lying going on you has to question your own sanity for a minute! This is the first book I've read from this author and it sure won't be my last. Two girls are kidnapped and the coincidence is they share a nanny. If your up to being constantly lied to to figure out who took these children and why...read this book. Your gonna be gobsmacked in the face several times!

The Nanny Share is a fast-paced thriller about two four-year-old girls who vanish overnight from their gated community, Blackwood. The one thing they have in common? Their nanny. Told from multiple POVs, this gripping story unfolds with nonstop twists and buried secrets that keep you guessing. The tension builds with every chapter, making it impossible to put down until you uncover the truth. If you’re looking for a thriller that will completely pull you in, this is the one.

The Nanny Share
By: Emily Shiner

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🤍psychological thriller
🤍whodunnit
🤍never saw it coming
🤍multiple POVs

💋Dramatic Thoughts💋

This book was literally SO FREAKING GOOD! It truly might be on my list of Top 10 books of all time! There were so many twists and turns. I literally had NO clue how this one would end and I was on the edge of my seat the entire book! I thoroughly enjoyed the multiple POVs - it definitely added to the character development and created so much depth! Emily Shiner did a phenomenal job with this book. Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor and then recommend this book to everyone I know!!!!!!

💥Character Spotlight💥

I can’t choose a favorite character without spoiling too much so I’ll give you my Top 3: Julia, Carrie and Kate

Everyone had a secret and I think that’s what made this book such a success - I literally couldn’t rule out a single character’s involvement while reading.

💬Favorite Quotes💬

“If a kid was taken in Blackwood, that only means one thing. It was an inside job.”

“He’s not the perfect, shiny, wonderful man everyone thinks he is. I swear to you, he has everyone duped. He’s fooled everyone, and that includes my wife.”

“I want my daughter back. I want her father. And I never want to see you again.”

“Besides, she has a dangerous job. It would be terrible if something happened to her.”

Took a bit to get into the flow of the book but once I did it was non stop

Definitely twists I didn't see coming and kept me guessing the entire way.

Thank you NetGalley & Bookouture for this advanced copy

WOW!! What a ride! This book grabs your attention from page one! If you love super unexpected twists then you MUST READ The Nanny Share! This book quite literally had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. It's so nice to read a book that keeps you hooked til the very end!

Oooo I loved this one!!
So gripping, I could NOT put this book down. Possibly my favourite read of 2025.

The twist was incredible, literally would never have guessed it. Absolutely brilliant. Cannot wait to read more from this author.

This is my second book by this author, and while I didn’t like this story as much as “Meet the Parents”, I still think it was a good thriller. This book is the story of one day in Blackwood, an exclusive gated community outside of Los Angeles - and what a day it was!

That morning, Carrie and her husband Daniel wake to find their daughter Emma gone. On the same street, Alison and her husband Ryan arise to find their daughter Nealie gone. The two four-year-olds are missing, and both sets of parents call their nanny, Julie. The families used to be close, but recent events have kept them apart, including the kids. Julie is the one who still sees both of the girls, but she doesn’t know where they are either.

Once the police get involved, the story picks up with chapters from the points of view of the parents, Julie and her boyfriend Theo, Kate, the main detective on the case, and a mystery person who is getting texts from the presumed kidnapper. Why are they ignoring the texts and not telling the police about the ransom demands? What happened to break these friendships up? Where are the girls, and why were they taken from their beds in the middle of the night (conveniently when the neighborhood’s CCTV went down)?

You will get answers to all of these questions, with a lot of surprises along the way. Every character has a secret they are hiding from one or more people, and as the secrets come out, everyone grows more frantic. The mothers are losing their minds, the fathers are both letting their anger take over, and Julie is scared something bad will happen to the girls she has watched for so long. She’s also scared that her secrets will come out too…

This had some good twists throughout, and it was quite entertaining. I wouldn’t have minded a bit more darkness and suspense; the book was relatively light for the subject matter and I didn’t care much for any of the characters, but that’s my only minor complaint. This one is a very quick read, and a very interesting story as well. Four stars!

(Thank you to Bookouture for inviting me on this book’s tour. “The Nanny Share” is slated to be released on February 21, 2025.)

I devored this book!

So brilliant, twisting and moving, I was hooked from the start.

A must in your 2025 TBR

This was addictive, read in one morning. When two girls go missing from a posh suburban area, questions get asked. The lies you uncover during this story is crazy, a lot was kept from each other. It’s a page turner with twists you won’t see coming. The characters are all fitting with the plot and it was very well written. 5 star read.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a copy.

What a fascinating, fast-paced thriller!

When two sweet 4-year-olds, Emma and Nealie go missing from Blackwood, an exclusive gated community, tenacious Detective Kate Martin is determined to unravel the secrets of everyone involved, to find what has happened to the two missing girls…

I felt absorbed into this story from the very beginning and was regularly on the edge of my seat waiting for the next surprise or unexpected twist, especially with the many cat-and-mouse elements, and the regular chapter cliffhangers.

“This is the type of secret to follow you to your grave. Hell, it’s the type of secret to drive you to an early one”

Throughout this entire story I was trying to understand the motivations and secrets of each character, and Emily Shiner is certainly skilled at keeping readers guessing right to the end!

As this story is told from multiple perspectives, I initially found it tricky to remember who each character was and their relationships to each other, although this was not an ongoing concern.

There are certainly some darker elements within this story, so will not be suitable for all readers, but for those who enjoy a gripping psychological thriller, this is a winner!

With thanks for Bookouture, Emily Shiner and NetGalley for this e-ARC, for review consideration with an honest review.

The Nanny Share by Emily Shiner, when two4-year-olds go missing on the same morning. It seems the only thing they currently had in common was the fact they shared a nanny Julie, but as more than one of the adults tries to figure out what happened to the children secrets are uncovered starting out when Detective Aletha Bradshaw, shows up to investigate because she is one of the women that Ryan, Neely’s dad had been sleeping with recently. Kate, Nealy‘s mom knows this but is more interested in finding her daughter and is one of the adults looking for evidence as to where she is. Many questions will be raised, but it’s the answers that are going to shock all of them. The only problem is every time a deep dark secret is uncovered. The children seem to still allude them so when everyone is crossed off the list who is left and where are the girls and will they get there in time? I love a good thriller/mystery where I think it is one person or persons for most of the book only to learn no it was someone else the whole time and that was this book. I was totally shocked. Well, not shocked because I started getting included into the fact that maybe this person but it also seems like it could’ve went the other way as well. This was a great book. I’m only giving it three stars however because they had lots of eye rolling moments, especially with idiotic Julie. I still am going to read this author’s books, however because they bring me great joy and despite not enjoying this one as much as others it’s still a twisty ride. #NetGalley, #Bookouture, #TheNannyShare, #EmilyShiner,

I really enjoyed it! It took a few chapters to get intrigued but once invested, I had to know what secrets everyone was guarding and where the missing, little girls were. Multiple POVs, many characters to keep straight - one of them being a tenacious detective- and so many twists. The Nanny Share doesn’t disappoint.
Thank You to NetGalley, Bookouture, and Emily Shiner for the opportunity to read and enjoy this ARC.

My first ARC review!

The start of this book was really interesting and made me curious about what was going on. But around the 40%-70% mark, it got kind of boring because there were too many chapters from different characters, so it felt a bit dragged out. Maybe multiple POVs just aren’t my thing. The ending was unexpected, and overall, it was a fun read!

This was my first Emily Shiner read and it certainly won't be my last. Fast paced, multiple points of view with an in-depth characters. I really was surprised by this one. storyline is gripping and thrilling. Great details and great plotting make this your new addictive, suspenseful read of the year.