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Jenny Alexander-Smythe's A Changed Face

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Jenny Alexander-Smythe is coming into a large inheritance from her father’s estate on her 25th birthday which is only months away. The question is will she be alive to celebrate that birthday? Someone has broken into her house searching for deeds to a mine that her father purportedly owned but of which she has no knowledge. Not longer after that a gentleman named Wing Commander James Williams seeks her out with a check for 800,000 pounds for the sale of this same mine. Coincidence? She’ll have to put her life in danger to find out. I had very high hopes for A Changed Face with the possibility of murder, mayhem, and mystery. Unfortunately, I was extremely disappointed. Why? Many reasons of which the first was the formatting and errors. The story was obviously written in British English which being an American was a little difficult to understand. Words like “toot” and “yonks” were used; however, this wasn’t really a problem. The real issue was the lack of spacing between paragraphs, the run-on dialogue, and the redundant words and phrases. For example, “I also have a daily housekeeper, Rachel, who comes every day.” I would sure hope a daily housekeeper would come every day or else they probably need to be fired. Unfortunately, this is only one of many such redundant sentences. Sadly, that is only the beginning of …show more content…

In a good mystery, the author leaves you guessing until the very end, however, this story was very predictable. I knew who the bad guy was early on in the story. Also, there are a few bits of the story that are simply left unresolved, so even though the story is complete, I found myself unsettled at the ending. Lastly, while there is little romance throughout the book, Ms. Baxter does throw in a sex scene which just seems to come out of nowhere. My only thought is that the author thinks that a sex scene will help the book

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