Blog Post #25: The Au Pairs

Currently I am reading the book The Au Pairs by Melissa de la Cruz. It is about 3 girls that are working in the Hamptons for the Perry family. In the beginning the 3 girls thought that this job would be a piece of cake. They thought that taking care of 4 kids was easy, but they were wrong. Their work was tedious because they must treat the kids with great care. While reading the book I noticed that each girl had very different personalities. Mara is more a of a shy and goodie two shoes, Eliza is more of a spoiled girl that likes to party all the time, and Jacqui is a girl that wants to have someone love her all the time.

Mara is a girl that is shy most of the time, but sometimes she gets out of her comfort zone and has fun. I think that she is a feisty girl when she wants to be. Even though Mara has a boyfriend in Boston, I think she has a tiny crush on Ryan Perry. I never would have thought Mara would like someone else instead of her one and only boyfriend. Mara always took care of the kids while Eliza and Jacqui were out doing something, which was most of the time. Mara is really helpful because she usually takes care of the 4 children.

Throughout the book Eliza shows that she is a party girl and always wants to go somewhere. Though Eliza also shows that she can help out, but most of the time she does not because she does not want her former friends think she has dropped down so far that she must work. Eliza was rich, but then her dad was part of Wall Street when it crashed and they lost a lot of their money. Her family formerly lived in New York and then they had to move to Boston because it was cheaper. Eliza lied to her friends because she did not want them to know that her family was broke. Eliza is a really great person, but she does not want her friends to know the truth.

Jacqui has a personality of a girl that is truly in love, but soon she finds out that her one true love has a girlfriend. Jacqui also likes to party like Eliza, but she has a hard time without having a guy by her side. She took the job at the Hamptons because she wanted to find the guy she loved, but after that guy left she thought that there was no point of staying. I think that Jacqui should really move on from the guy that lied to her while she was falling head over toes for him. Jacqui usually has a guy by her side all the time because of her looks.

In this book, the characters have very different personalities. Each girl shows a different side of them throughout the book. I think that these girls can all be different from their personalities from the beginning of the book. I noticed that their personalities change very slowly, but their personalities do not change a lot. Each girl makes me think that everyone in the world is unique from others, twins are very similar, but most of the time they have different personalities.