Expect Trouble
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JoAnn Smith Ainsworth
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth experienced WWII food rationing, Victory Gardens, and blackout sirens as a child. She lived in Philadelphia during the ’50s and she attended the Berkeley Psychic Institute in the late ’70s. She is the author of five published novels: Expect Trouble, Book 1 of the Operation Delphi series; two historical western romances released from Whiskey Creek Press; and two medieval romantic suspense novels released from Samhain Publishing, Ltd. Ainsworth lives in California. Her most recent book, Expect Betrayal came out on April 18, 2020. To learn more about this award winning author, visit www.joannsmithainsworth.com.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Livvy Delacourt, the heroine of JoAnn Smith Ainsworth’s Expect Trouble, is a Sarah Lawrence graduate, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy’s WAVES auxiliary, and a psychic. The unusual blend of office smarts, willingness to serve her country, and paranormal gifts bring Livvy the valuable job of aide to her high school crush, Barrington Drew III, known to everyone as Trey. Trey, the scion of a wealthy and well-connected family, is an engineer turned Naval Commander, saddled with the unlikely task of assembling a group of psychics and training them to hunt down Nazi spies in America. He is unhappy with his orders and deeply skeptical about the existence and potential usefulness of psychic abilities. Part historical novel, part paranormal thriller, JoAnn Ainsworth’s novel takes the reader down the twists and turns of a hunt for enemies on home soil. Young adults reading Expect Trouble will enjoy a glimpse of life before computers and a television in every home, where shorthand, file folders, and clunky manual typewriters were the arsenal of office workers even in highly-placed jobs like Livvy’s. The interpersonal dynamics of the novel will also be of interest, for the book is set in a time when relationships between men and women were strictly proscribed, and vastly different to today’s easy acquaintanceships between the sexes. I think that Expect Trouble would have been more enjoyable if Ms. Ainsworth had not chosen to reveal early on the identity of the Nazi spy instead of allowing readers to guess at the spy’s identity. However, it was entertaining to be privy to the workings of the mind of the spy, and to hope that they are not able to do overmuch treasonous damage before their duplicitous nature is divulged. I also found the on-call abilities of the assembled psychics to be rather naïve and unbelievable, but I think younger readers will get a kick out of the interplay between the real and psychic worlds. Expect Trouble is the first in a series of paranormal historical novels, and I am looking forward to reading book two, Expect Deception, in the near future. A reader cannot go wrong with an intelligent mixture of psychics, naval command, and Nazi spies.