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At 34% a time frame Later that night
...He wore plain breeches, boots, and only a shirt—all those fancy ducal clothes had been discarded as soon as he returned home... [from the ball].... Two pages later At 35% a new heading
Even later that night
.....His untied cravat tangled around his neck, the vee of his shirt open to expose a patch of skin. But otherwise he was still dressed for the ball....

"I could feel terror winding thorny branches around my lungs,.."

"He swore and looked up as if hoping a patience fairy might show up and dump a load on him. She won’t. She never does."

Heat poured off his body like a stove, and he smelled delicious. I bet that’s what rats thought about the cheese right before the trap snapped their necks.

NO NO NO!! He did not just do that did he? I hope she really makes him crawl!

I love this book. I have read it so many times. Listening, hopefully the narrator does a good job.

I love this book. I have read it so many times. Listening, hopefully the narrator does a good job.

This is seriously bothering me, the heroine offering to go bare with a known man-whore without any convo.

Ugh - manwhore! Yuk

Really dragging and I don't know why!

Way too much telling!

"She felt as if she were made of ancient paper, ready to crumble at a touch and blow away in the wind."

Too many convenient coincidences

Seriously! A blind woman performing surgery in 1800!

No one says Ta unless they are teaching a toddler to say Thank you.

I hate racial stereotypes in books. Ms Ayers' modern day hero is using language from the 1950's to emphasise his Australianism. It's like the overuse of Scottish brogue, it just comes across as fake.

Fake Australian accent yuk!

So the book is called Buns and I had been wondering why we had got to 20% and the heroine hadn't been down the mountain to the local town, let alone met the local baker, then I suddenly got it. That'll teach me for not reading the blurb