To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters

 

Title:  To Love and to Loathe

Author:  Martha Water

Narrated by:  Joel Froomkin, Anais Inara Chase

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Length: Approximately 10 hours and 10 minutes

Source: Checked out with Libby through the Kewaunee Public Library.  Thank-you!

What are your favorite flowers this time of year?  I love anything colorful in the gloom of winter.

Diana, Lady Templeton is a widow and loves to match wits with a known rake, Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham.  They make a wager of 100 pounds that Jeremy will marry within the year.  As Diana is his good friend that he trusts, Jeremy also goes to her with a troublesome problem that his latest paramour criticized him in the bedroom.  Will she be able to help him out with his technique?  Diana thinks that if she takes Jeremy up on his offer, this will only help her win the bet.  At a house party, things go awry as the try to both win their side of the bet.

This book is very steamy.  I loved the witty banter.  It had me laughing out loud in several spots.  I love a good Regency house party and this book was a lot of fun.  I loved how Diana was a strong willed and independent woman and I also love how Jeremy and Diana could talk honestly to each other.

Joel Froomkin and Anais Inara Chase took turns as narrators for the chapters narrated by Diana or Jeremy.  They were fun narrators, and I enjoyed their characters.  Froomkin in particular had a charming aristocratic drawl that I found to be quite delightful.

This is the second novel in the Regency Vows series.  I’ve read books 1 and 3.  I thought I should get book 2 read before the new book 4 comes out!