Book Review
Title: Craving Jamie
Author: Keiko Okamoto (Illustrator) & Emma Darcy
Genre: Manga
Rating: **
Review: In the opening of Craving Jamie we are introduced to Beth and Jamie who are best friends growing up and when Beth moves away Jamie promises to become successful and find her when he can. However, we jump forward, and Jamie is a successful businessman which has made him very rich when he meets a young girl at an art gallery, unknown to him this girl is Beth.
Jamie thinks Beth is just another gold digger and takes her home where she confesses the next morning who she is angering Jamie. We begin to realise that not everything is right with this relationship but when Jamie buys her family’s farm and tries to strike a bargain with her I honestly felt the relationship was going to collapse before it started.
Soon we learn that Beth believes Jamie forgot all about her which he did as he didn’t recognise her, but we also learn that Jamie thought the same thing when he didn’t receive Beth’s letter which was intercepted. He also believed that Beth was married and had a child which turned to be her younger brother who tragically died a few years before.
In the end, they work through their issues and the deceptions which caused them to drift apart and we see the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Overall, I didn’t like Craving Jamie while the story was good and interesting, the scene where Jamie takes Beth home comes across as rape rather than as a consenting sexual encounter which really put me off the whole story.
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I received this review copy from NetGalley
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