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To Love and to Loathe
by Martha Waters
Thank you to Atria (via NetGalley) for the ARC!
This was a lot of fun. A great follow-up to To Have and To Hoax, and I might actually like it better! Just because romances with established relationships, like the first one, are never my favorite. This one, though, is about Diana and Jeremy (who have many more names and titles that I couldn't always keep straight) who have known each other for ten years. Diana is a widow at 23 and Jeremy is determined never to marry, and at 28 has been successful thus far. They travel in the same social circles and have always enjoyed picking on each other, in a good-natured way. But, of course, things change when they enter into a wager: Diana bets Jeremy 100 pounds he will be married within a year, a wager he gladly accepts. Then, however, things get messy when Jeremy approaches Diana with a proposal of his own: he wants to enter into an affair with her after receiving some rather harsh criticisms from his last fling and what starts out as something purely physical doesn't stay that way for long.
Diana and Jeremy are both super sarcastic, which I love. They are both also idiots. They think they actually hate each other, when everyone around them can even tell that there is something going on beneath the surface. One of my favorite dynamics in romance novels! I like to call it idiots to lovers because they're not actually enemies to begin with. There's no real hate or malice there, it's just that neither of them really understand their own feelings for the other person.
I like that both of them used their sarcasm as kind of a shield. Both of them had pain in their pasts that they hid from even their friends, and it was only around each other that they were able to take off the masks they wore in polite society and really examine how those respective pasts may have affected the people they had become.
As I said before, a great follow-up, and a super quick read! I read most of it in one cold, blizzard-y day, and it was the perfect book to curl up on the couch with. Best enjoyed with a cat in your lap and a mug of tea nearby.
This releases April 6th, so pre-order it now or request it at your library! I'm excited to see what comes next in this series :)
This was a lot of fun. A great follow-up to To Have and To Hoax, and I might actually like it better! Just because romances with established relationships, like the first one, are never my favorite. This one, though, is about Diana and Jeremy (who have many more names and titles that I couldn't always keep straight) who have known each other for ten years. Diana is a widow at 23 and Jeremy is determined never to marry, and at 28 has been successful thus far. They travel in the same social circles and have always enjoyed picking on each other, in a good-natured way. But, of course, things change when they enter into a wager: Diana bets Jeremy 100 pounds he will be married within a year, a wager he gladly accepts. Then, however, things get messy when Jeremy approaches Diana with a proposal of his own: he wants to enter into an affair with her after receiving some rather harsh criticisms from his last fling and what starts out as something purely physical doesn't stay that way for long.
Diana and Jeremy are both super sarcastic, which I love. They are both also idiots. They think they actually hate each other, when everyone around them can even tell that there is something going on beneath the surface. One of my favorite dynamics in romance novels! I like to call it idiots to lovers because they're not actually enemies to begin with. There's no real hate or malice there, it's just that neither of them really understand their own feelings for the other person.
I like that both of them used their sarcasm as kind of a shield. Both of them had pain in their pasts that they hid from even their friends, and it was only around each other that they were able to take off the masks they wore in polite society and really examine how those respective pasts may have affected the people they had become.
As I said before, a great follow-up, and a super quick read! I read most of it in one cold, blizzard-y day, and it was the perfect book to curl up on the couch with. Best enjoyed with a cat in your lap and a mug of tea nearby.
This releases April 6th, so pre-order it now or request it at your library! I'm excited to see what comes next in this series :)