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Someone please give this author a thesaurus and an editing team that cares. It's not just that the same actions are repeated over and over (and over... and over again), it's that the same words are used to describe them every time. It's like someone put 50 words in a bag, pulled them out and mashed them into a semblance of a sentence, then tossed them back in the bag and repeated the process to fill 300+ pages. Inspired by another review I actually used my Kindle to count the ones that were most painful/annoying to read: Lips bitten: 25 Eyes widened: 21 Eyes rolled: 51 "oh my": 45 Scowls: 48 Gasps: 62 "jeez": 76 Smirks: 91 Flushes/blushes: 133 F-bombs dropped: 173 Whispers: 251 Do the math! Lips are bitten and eyes are widened in every chapter. Someone gasps once every six pages. The main character "flushes" at least once every three pages. Yes, the British author uses British colloquialisms that make no sense in the Pacific Northwest. Yes, the female protagonist is two dimensional and boring. Yes, her leading man is given a forced and contrived backstory in an unnecessary attempt to make sense of his kinkiness in a vanilla world. The sex scene was okay the first time I read it, but by the time it was recycled for the twelfth time or so it was just boring. And yes, in between the repetitions listed above the author inexplicably throws whatever was on her "word a day calendar" into character conversation where it sounds silly and awkward. But none of these things really destroy a good book quite like reading "I flush" for the hundredth time. Oh my! Apologies to the fans out there. Imagine I'm writing this review with an "apologetic smirk."