Still Waters

by Marguerite Lees

Kathie Somers had gone out to the Caribbean to inspect her inheritance - but did not reveal her true identity as she wanted to be loved for herself. But she was to find that her innocent deception was to have an opposite effect from that which she intended.

362 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1968

Reviews

[Last Chance Saloon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dim bulb heroine (no age given) inherits lots of money and a run down plantation and goes to visit it with her aunt. People think the aunt is the heiress, but the OM knows the heroine has the cash and uses his daughter to rope the heroine in. The hero (again no age) is a grumpy neighbour to her who wants to buy the property so he can cut down all the weeds encroaching on his sugar crop. Things would go swimmingly but the OM shows up with daughter and persuades the heroine to give him right to spend her money on a tourist gamble. The hero is cross about this, but the heroine does not learn a lesson for the entire book and does everything wrong. She ends up losing pretty much everything when a hurricane comes and when the company in England goes bankrupt (she is very unlucky in everything). The OM let her into the hero’s secret - his fiancé shot herself when he left her to go live abroad. We then find out it was because his health was not good and was given a year to live and he did not want ‘his girl’ to go through that. At the end, the almost penniless heroine and the vapid, but belligerent hero, are planning to fix up the house she inherited. It was wrecked when she did not listen to his advice and left a huge rotten mahogany tree standing next to the house… and it crashed through it.

[Toni-Lea Chin · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is suppose to be Still Waters by Marguerite Lees.

The book started out with so much promise- interesting plot and main characters shrouded in mystery. Plus it takes place on a caribbean island. Oo.

Sad to say this book goes down as a 'I definitely won't be re-reading or revisiting this author'. At the end of the book all I knew was that:

1. the heroine was a complete dunce, a halfwit, a complete ignoramus.
2. the reader is left not knowing much about the characters.
3. hardly any real interaction between the Hero and the heroine.
3. I think my IQ dropped.


Spoiler alert:

Dumb heroine loses all the money she inherited because she can't actually think for herself and she has a weak character. Now the Hero has to put up with that.

You're welcome. I wouldn't recommend it.

[Cerulean · Rating 2 out of 5]

The plot was boring, the people were boring and the writing was boring. It was so utterly boring that it should have never been published.