I enjoyed this book, but had several issues with it. If these hadn't been the case, I probably would have been able to rate it much higher, honestly. However, while I understand the author is not from the US, if the story is going to take place in the US, then it needs to use the terminology we use in the US. we call it a living room, not a lounge. The language, as a whole, struck me as "British" and not what I would expect from someone in the US. there are other things/ language that bothered me, but I think these were the biggest. Please, Kirsty Mosely, as a reader who beta reads and picks out these details on purpose, I beg you to go back and edit for this kind of thing. It's huge. This story takes place in the US and it's a good book. It'd be better with these consistencies....use the language that fits the locale.