Wow! Wow! This was so unique and so thrilling! This book was loaded with secrets, twist, and turns! I read it in one sitting and I am so glad I did!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my copy of this book.

Kate writes erotic fiction under a pseudonym for a living. All of her material comes from her husband’s one night stands while away for work. When Annie, a widow moves into the neighbourhood, she and Kate immediately become friends. Then everything starts to go wrong.

I enjoyed this despite other reviews I’ve seen. The book within the book, reading about Kate’s characters was fun. Matt, the husband was not a nice character. The writer described him well and I could imagine him as someone I had met in a previous life. Kate and Annie were a great combination both as friends and as enemies. My only criticism is that ending seemed rushed. There was little detail and just this happened THE END. Definitely a good read though.

The Widow on Dwyer Court
By: Lisa Kusel
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This book is SPICY and different from anything I have ever read. A unique plot.
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Kate and Matt have a unique marriage. After having a daughter she told Matt that she did not enjoy sex. With his work he goes out of town and this gives him the opportunity to have sex, all with his wife’s permission.
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Kate is a novelist and writes erotica under a pseudonym. She holds this secret so her neighbors are not aware of what she does.
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Kate and Matt use his out of town experiences to add to her novels. When someone new moves to the neighborhood things get more twisted.
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There are some graphic scenes and a disturbing scene, so just putting it out there. A wicked book within a book, which is not easy to write.
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Thank you Thriller Book Lovers Promotions for this advanced copy. Out July 16 by Blackstone Publishing.
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𝑨𝒎 𝑰 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒖𝒑 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔?

I don't think I've ever read a book quite like this one! Kate is a happily married mom who looks like she has the perfect family with husband Matt and a pre-teen daughter completing the portrait of domestic bliss. But all is not as it seems. You see, Kate has never enjoyed sex. Not even with Matt, who appears to worship the ground she walks on. Even more puzzling, Kate writes erotic romance novels under a pseudonym, so where exactly is she drawing inspiration to write her explicit scenes.

She and Matt have an understanding. Whenever he goes out of town for work, he is allowed to sleep with a woman as long as he follows the rules that Kate enforces, the most of important of which there can never be a repeat performance with the same woman. This arrangement serves two purposes; first, it keeps Matt happy and satisfied, and second, his detailed stories that Kate insists on hearing givers her fodder for her books.

This arrangement is tested when Annie Meyers, an eccentric young widow, moves to town with her daughter. At first Kate loves this strange woman with a wild, almost hippie nature. Annie is a much-needed respite from all the small talk about bake sales and soccer. Plus, she is dying to share her secret life with someone she trusts. But it turns out Annie has secrets too—why exactly has she landed in this neighborhood, where rentals are extremely hard to come by, and why is she so eager to befriend Kate?

Ok, this book was WILD and SPICY. There was one line in particular that I saw caused someone to DNF and give a one star rating, but it didn't bother me because it fit perfectly with the character and her motivations. You also get the fun of a book within a book as Kate's spicy scenes in her book come alive.

Thank you to Thriller Book Lovers Promotions and the author for this early read. This title will publish July 16, 2024 from Blackstone Publishing.

The description of the book is initially what intrigued me as Kate is an erotic novel writer that hates sex, so she allows her husband, Matt to have sex when he's out of town for work as long as he comes back and tells her about it so she can use it for her novels. Annie is a widow who moves into town to get a fresh start with her daughter after her husband passes. Kate and Annie become fast friends after their daughters befriend each other at school as they both see themselves as completely different from the other moms in their area. The story is told from both Kate and Annie's POV. This book was so different from anything I've read recently but I really enjoyed it. I don't know that I'd necessarily call it a thriller in the sense that most people think of thrillers, but towards the end of the book the suspense level definitely picks up and the ending is a twist that I didn't see coming.

Thank you to NetGalley & Blackstone Publishing for the opportunity to read this digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

The synopsis of this book was intriguing but I just couldn't quite get into the story like I had hoped. I'm not sure if it was the writing or the pace.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for my gifted copy.

DNF

I just couldn’t do this one.. this book made me pretty uncomfortable at most times and I didn’t have the desire to even want to find out what’s happening next.. I’m waiting for the suspense to happen and all I’ve found out so far is how freaky and strange these main characters are..

*But thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for this ARC is exchange for an honest review*

What an interesting premise! How does a woman who doesn’t enjoy sex write erotic romance novels? Well, for Kate that’s easy! She allows her husband to be intimate with other women in exchange for using the details in her novels. The situation gets complicated when sexy widow Annie moves into the neighborhood.

It’s impossible to read the summary and not be intrigued by this book! I went in with an open mind. While the erotic romance scenes with Macon, the cheese/dairy farmer in Kate’s novel, gave me more cringe vibes than sexy ones, my attention was still hooked by this truly unique domestic thriller. It also helped that it was an easy to read book with short chapters.

I’m torn on rounding my 3.5 star rating up or down. As odd as this book was, it was hard not to be glued to the pages. It’s like a train wreck - you shouldn’t stare but you just can’t look away 🫣 Guilty pleasure perhaps?

Thank you to NetGalley & Blackstone Publishing for the opportunity to read this digital ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for providing this book, with my honest review below.

The Widow on Dwyer Court was a different kind of thriller, and I think that’s what’s makes it so good. We are introduced to Kate, who writes erotica and gets her ideas from her husband’s out of town romances, since they’re in an open marriage. That alone was a bit different but when Annie moved in to the neighborhood the dynamics between Kate, her husband Matt, and Annie get a lot more complicated.

This was a fun thriller in that there’s no real previous blueprint that may have been read in other books in the genre. I don’t know if I’d at all say there was a thread of believability in it but I enjoyed that it was a truly unique plot. Warning (or encouragement) that this is a lot more sexual than other thrillers.

This was one of the weirdest books that I’ve ever read but definitely a 10 for originality. This was a book that once I started reading I couldn’t put it down. Everyone has secrets but some are a lot more destructive than others. Great read that I would highly recommend.