Yes, this reached ridiculous levels as if it was a game of lava floor with pronouns. It's actually one of the few times I remember being put off epithets in otherwise competent writing. I'm not stringent about always hating every instance, sometimes they can work for description, and I won't notice, but it's very intrusive here.

It seems to be the author's first novel (unless she wrote under a different pseud before), so it might be inexperience? But you'd that with the first thing you sell you work extra hard, and would ask others, and I can't think how anyone could read this and not tell her to at least tone it down, and also to just stick to one name for a character per pov scene rather than using both first and last name separately.