![]() ![]() It's quite easy to see why his ex-wife (and James himself) repeatedly says it isn't love they share but he's addicted to her/sex. Once again we are treated to the angsty "love" between James and Penny - although honestly aside from some mediocre sex (that is meant to be really hot, but never gets there) there is nothing between these two. ![]() Honestly over the course of not just this book, but the other three I wish I had kept track of just how many times I read that James "lowered both his eyebrows (apparently he spends a lot of times with them raised), or how many times during sex Penny felt "the familiar warmth" of his semen, "spread up into her stomach". How many times can one author repeat the same useless drivel at a reader? Apparently in the case of this author, A LOT. ![]()
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