Martha Waters – Cannonball Read 17

Window Dressing

To Marry and to Meddle by Martha Waters

January 26, 2022 by Pooja 5 Comments

The English countryside in early September was a glorious place. The sun shone. The bees buzzed. The heady scent of wildflowers lingered in the air. Emily Turner could not think of a more romantic setting for the world’s least romantic marriage proposal. Julian needs a wife who makes him look respectable to remake his theatre’s reputation, Emily needs to get out from under her parents’ thumb and away from a skeevy suitor. Marriage sounds like the perfect solution – but being married is more complicated […]

Leaning More Towards Loathe than Love

To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters

March 12, 2021 by Emmalita 2 Comments

Oof. I thought this was going to be just another romance that I didn’t love but I didn’t hate and was maybe a victim of my pandemic brain. At the 78% mark, Waters turned it around to an “I cannot recommend this book at all.” Right up top I’m going to address my main issue. Waters has a side character who is revealed to be a lesbian and then the main character immediately tells her friends after swearing them to silence. And then she does […]

I don’t know how these characters had friends

To Have and To Hoax by Martha Waters

September 4, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

This is the author’s first novel, so I’m going to try to be nice… After reading half of the book, nevermind. The main characters, Violet and James, married quickly, were wildly in love for a year, and then they had an argument that halted their happy marriage in its tracks. The couple live in the same house, but they have a cold marriage where they try to avoid and ignore each other. We haven’t learned what the argument was about a third of the […]

Faking consumption to get husband’s attention: Debut

To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters

July 25, 2020 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

To Have and to Hoax is the debut novel by Martha Waters and was a fun choice for that bingo square. Five years ago, Lady Violet Grey, during her first season, found herself in a compromising position on a dark balcony with the handsome Lord James Audley. Sparks flew between the two of them and when discovered by Violet’s mother, he instantly proposes. A love match is unusual in their society circles and for the first year everything seemed perfect. Violet is an avid reader, […]

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