Black Widow: the first responses

We’re just starting to get the first reader responses to Black Widow, and it’s going well so far!

Black Widow is a bit of a departure for me – a romantic thriller with dark undercurrents – so I’m very curious to see what people think.

I’ve written bestselling romantic thrillers before. I’ve seen my face plastered all over glossy magazines. I’ve had my books optioned by big-time producers for the movies. I’ve been around.

But with this book I wanted to try something different. With Black Widow I wanted to be bad.

I wanted to write a novel that pushed the boundaries. A romance novel that got really dark and edgy. A thriller that kept readers right on the edge of their seats, never quite sure if my protagonist was going to come good and triumph.

I wanted to take the dark romance genre and write a lead character with spirit: Eleanor Dryton is no pushover. She’s been dragged down, she’s lost everything she’d ever treasured, and now she’s emerging on the other side and looking for revenge.

And I wanted to turn it all into a love story.

It was quite a challenge, and it really was fun to write.

Did I succeed? Well here are some of the early reader responses on GoodReads:

“This story is dark and twisted. I liked it.”

“My fave part is the ending. Not because the book was over, but because of the huge twist. I won’t give it away, but BRAVA Ms. Adams”

“I had a hard time putting this one down…

“Wow… Just wow! It was ‘dark & twisty’, kept me hooked and had plot twists that keep you guessing! Kudos to PJ Adams, I loved this book & would definitely recommend!”

And some of the early Amazon reviews:

“I’ve read and enjoyed Pepper Winters’ Monsters In The Dark books and Belle Aurora’s RAW, and if you like these authors Black Widow should be just your thing. It’s dark, scary and sometimes disturbingly violent, but none of it is gratuitous: as usual with Adams, it’s all about the story and the characters and their relationships.”

“A grim and passionate story of a young woman’s life as she sinks to the lowest depths, starts to emerge and learns to love again.”

“Another great read from PJ Adams. This is deliberately darker than her other books and she pulls no punches, which makes for a powerful read.”

I really hope Black Widow manages to both disturb and move you. It did exactly that to me when I was writing it…

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Black Widow by PJ Adams

Two years ago Eleanor Dryton lost everything and ended up in jail. All that remained was a burning desire for revenge. Now, she has learned that she can be bad, but when her search for revenge leads her to a man who takes bad to a completely different level just how far is she willing to go? A dark and disturbing romantic thriller from the bestselling author of Winner Takes All.

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