Synopsis
Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, she has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself–as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails–no small feat.
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Review
So I read Jemima J when I was in my early 20’s, and I liked it a lot. But, unfortunately, this time around, I noticed quite a few problematic plot points.
I should warn you now that this review will have spoilers because it’s hard to say what I want to say without them. This book is about a fat woman and thinks that is holding her back. So she goes to extremes measures and ends up basically being unhealthy. Of course, instead of people in her life being concerned about her, they applaud her for finally thing pretty.
What could have been a great book about a woman gaining her confidence was her not being loved or accepted until she lost weight.
I really connected with Jemima and especially her relationship with food. So it was even more bothersome than the book turned out as it did. I remembered this book differently. This book was written at a different time, and not that is an excuse, but the characters in this book haven’t been on the internet at all at the beginning of the book. It makes me thankful that there are books out there that have better messages than this one.
