That’s sort of understandable, but to me the standout character wasn’t Jamie Baker, but Ryan Miller. I guess if I had superpowers I didn’t know how to control I’d be a whinny chump too. She was always pushing Ryan away despite obviously liking him, whining about her powers. Jamie little-by-little has to learn to just be herself and not play a martyr with her life, but the process was sort of annoying to me. She even saves someones life in a school parking lot like Edward. Oddly I felt many times that Jamie was channeling Edward with his, “stay away from me I’m not good for you…” brooding vibe. It’s scary cause she sort of likes him too, but doesn’t want to kill him.And besides she needs to protect her secret as she doesn’t want to be turned into a government lab rat.īeing Jamie Baker is like Rogue meets Edward Cullen. So now the latter actually happened and Ryan Miller one of the school jocks won’t leave her alone. Extreme emotions come out when kissing someone so this could a.) make the person she’s kissing freak and leave or b.) think she’s some sort of kissing goddess and pursue her further. Whenever she has extreme emotions she charges whomever she’s touching like a battery. So Jamie happens to have an electrical supercharge running throughout her body at all times. What’s wrong with that, you say? Well nothing except Jamie Baker at one point had a freak accident involving toxic waste and tons of electricity. So I’m going to review this as if I was watching a Saturday morning episode of X-Men: The Animated Series.

Does that make sense? I think before I was taking things too seriously. I used to throw ice cubes from trees, lame superpower but still… Did I mention I met a guy at work with the last name “Xmann?” I think I freaked him out.If I had a last name like that I’d be naming my kids all sorts of awesome names.Īnyway I was all prepared to give this book a semi-bad review despite the similarities to my favorite superheroes, but then I actually saw the book trailer after reading and I felt that put things in better perspective. I’m the biggest Rogue and Gambit fan, not to mention X-Men fan in general.

“reminiscent, in a way, of Xmen’s Rogue and Gambit”

Being Jamie Baker by Kelly Oram