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About Caz Owens

Historicals – Fiction and Romance - are and always have been my first love, although I do branch out occasionally and read in other genres. I’m a musician, although I don’t play as much as I used to; and I live on the East Coast of England with my husband and teenaged daughters (both of whom love to read). When I’ve not got my nose in a book, I’ve got my ears in one, as I’m a huge fan of audiobooks and am rarely to be found without my earbuds in.
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October TBR Challenge – Paranormal or Romantic Suspense

This month’s TBR prompt, Paranormal or Romantic Suspense, is always fun. Both subgenres cover a lot of ground, so there can be an embarrassment of riches when it comes to picking out something to read. This time around, rather than pick one subgenre, Caz went with both and read a paranormal romantic suspense novel.Lynn, on the other hand, was craving some category romance, and after a false start with a Harlequin Intrigue from the 90s, ended up finding a much more recent Harlequin Romantic Suspense that worked rather well indeed. […]

By |2019-10-15T10:57:44-04:00October 16th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: , , , , |10 Comments
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Hazard and Somerset: A LOVE story

I’ve known for a while that of all the reviewers at AAR, my opinions of books most closely align with fellow reviewer (and my editor) Caz Owens.  In fact, her reviews are one of the ways I found our site in the first place!  These days, we’re often reading and reviewing many of the same books, and sometimes duking it out for a book we both want.  […]

By |2019-10-14T08:05:14-04:00October 14th, 2019|Categories: EmAAR, Mysteries, Queer romance, Reading|Tags: , , |11 Comments
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September TBR Challenge – Kickin’ It Old School

This month’s TBR Challenge prompt invites us to go into the Wayback Machine, or at least the Kinda Wayback Machine. Tasked with reading something more than ten years old, we both dug into our book stacks. Caz read a classic category novel by Mary Burchell, while Lynn went with a somewhat newer (though not quite new) historical from Cara Elliott. […]

By |2019-09-17T21:22:12-04:00September 18th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: , , , |2 Comments
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The Best Romances of 2019…. so far!

As fall begins, I start thinking about end-of-year “Best of” lists. There are so many books released each year that I’m always worried that I’m missing out books I should have tried. AAR’s Power Search is my longtime favorite for checking out what’s been going on in a given year, and I often turn to it for guidance on what I should try to cram in before December. […]

By |2019-09-16T13:20:23-04:00September 14th, 2019|Categories: Best of Romance, Caroline AAR, Reading, Romance, Romance reading|Tags: |33 Comments
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Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Looking Forward to Reading in September 2019

Difficult to believe as it is, we’re heading into tbe back-end of the year now, as Autumn/Fall will shortly be upon us and we’ll be looking ahead to the books we want to curl up with on those long winter evenings! Before that, though, we’ve got the final days and weeks of summer to look forward to, and here are AAR staffers’ picks for the new releases we’re planning on spending that time with.  […]

By |2019-08-23T20:21:45-04:00August 24th, 2019|Categories: BJ Jansen, Books with Buzz, Caroline AAR, Caz AAR, Eagerly Awaiting, Keira Soleore, Maggie AAR, Maria Rose, Romance, Romance reading, Shannon AAR, Upcoming releases|Tags: , |12 Comments
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AAR Loves… Representation of Disability and Chronic Illness in Romance (Part Two)

Here, as promised, is Part Two of our latest AAR Loves… list, this time of romances  featuring characters living with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses (Part One can be found HERE.) It’s by no means an exhaustive list (nor is it meant to be), but as AAR’s Disabilities in Romance Special Titles List was last updated in 2013, we decided it was time for an update and for us to draw your attention to some of our favourite romances in this category that have been published since then. […]

By |2019-08-14T17:30:13-04:00August 14th, 2019|Categories: Romance reading, Special Titles Lists|Tags: |5 Comments
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The Dog Days of Summer

I love to travel.  I’m fortunate to have summers off and that my husband travels nearly every week for work (well, that’s unfortunate) accruing thousands of flight and hotel points for our family to use to get away.  As a voracious romance reader, I always have too many books in my TBR at any time, and I often read what I hope to review.  But summer/travel reading is different!  […]

By |2019-08-09T00:23:15-04:00August 9th, 2019|Categories: EmAAR, Re-reading, Reading, Romance, Romance reading|Tags: |12 Comments
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