I’m currently reading The Duke and I and the author is constantly using the word “acerbic”. I had never heard of the word before now and had to google the definition. The word has shown up so much that I’m tempted to go through the book and count its appearances lol.
Have you noticed any authors having favorite words that they use page after page?
I quit reading Lee Child because of a repeated fascination with " I said nothing " . Like not repeated four or five times…it felt like he was several hundred words short of a word goal so he added " I said nothing " into the manuscript to fill the gap.