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Title: To Love and To Loathe
Author: Martha Waters
Sub-genre: Historical
Trope(s): Enemies to lovers; teach me how to do the sex
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
Martha’s first book To Have and To Hoax was one of my favorite reads of 2020, so of course I was super excited to pick up her next one, especially because I loved these two characters already from their appearances in THATH.
Jeremy and Diana are constantly making digs at each other. Their circle of friends is forever intertwined, but that doesn’t mean the two of them ever have to like spending time with one another, and they make their feelings known. Diana pressures Jeremy into a wager–that he’ll be married within a year’s time–and he accepts because he can’t ever back down from a fight with Diana. But Jeremy doesn’t want to get married, content to live his bachelor life, sleeping with as many women as possible, leaving a trail of satisfied lovers in his wake. Until one of said lovers isn’t quite so satisfied. Jeremy begins to doubt his sexual prowess, and goes to the one person who he knows will give him the truth: Diana. Since Diana is a widow, she is free to take discreet lovers if she wants, she just isn’t so sure how to go about it. So when Jeremy comes to her and proposes they help each other out, she agrees. The two of them strike up their affair while spending two weeks at a country party with all of their friends, and lots of entanglements ensue. Diana is enjoying her hook ups with Jeremy, while also trying to win her bet and see him married. Jeremy is falling for Diana, while also trying to figure out his true feelings about love, marriage, and duty. Of course, we know it all works out in the end.
One of the things I loved the most about THATH was Martha’s incredible sense of humor and wit, and I was really looking forward to that same humor in this new book, and I was not disappointed. Diana and Jeremy have fantastic banter from the moment we first see them together. I really loved how this felt like a true enemies to lovers, they really went after one another, and I for one, thought it was delightful. This book was also super hot and steamy. I am a big fan of the teach me how to be good at sex, whoops now we’re in love trope and it worked perfectly between these two. There was steam, hijinks, banter, and love, and honestly those are all of my favorite things.
Overall Rating: 4.5 stars
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