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I finished reading Jeffrey Archer's Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less last night. I might be revealing significant details from the plot in this post and so reader discretion is advised in further reading of this post!
It's only my second book of Archer, after Kane and Abel and I should say it was not to my liking as much as K&A was! Considering it was only Archer's first novel though, I thought he had done a pretty good job. The only worrying factor was that some of the incidents were too dramatic and rather thankfully, the author did not make it over-dramatic by thinking of some plot to get back the last $1.24!
I had a hunch as to who Anne was, right when her character was introduced, since I felt that her character was almost unnecessary to the plot at that point and I should say that I lost the surprise element there. Maybe I was over-expecting stuff and hence was surprised in the end which I felt was rather tame, considering the momentum gathered in the early stages of the book. I also did not enjoy the fact that Harvey Metcalfe was shown to be a stupid throughout...didn't justify him becoming a millionaire with the help of his brain!
The humor in the plot was very subtle and extremely pleasant to my liking. So was Archer's deliberate play with words...he proved to be a master at it, yet again. The characters were well etched and the screenplay was very gripping, albeit dramatic. The carefree manner in which David Keslar was dumped off the screen was adorable(i kept expecting that he'd reappear in the end!) and I couldn't help but adore the manner in which Archer, unlike Follett manages to keep the intimate scenes limited to kissing, allowing himself the privilege of having an audience whose ages can range anywhere between 10 and 100!
The book's certainly worth a read...