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Book Review of Jemima J

Jemima J
Jemima J
Author: Jane Green
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Paperback
reviewed on
Helpful Score: 3


This was an awful, awful book. I don't know how else to say it. The main conflict of the book is that an overweight, frumpy girl lies about her appearance to a guy she meets online and then when he wants to meet, how is she going to tell him that she isn't really hot and thin? Will he still love her for her personality?

Well, the conflict is resolved by...she loses weight and magically becomes hot and thin. That's it. It takes one and a half whole pages for her to lose 100 pounds. "Hey I just needed to diet and exercise and, you know, stop craving food! So easy!" Not only is this an incredibly lazy way to resolve the conflict, it's totally unrealistic and silly.

The moral of the story is that beauty actually is what's on the outside, not the inside. Great. Shallow and boring.