Blog Archive
Wanna meet some trolls?
Anyone looking for tragedy needs to, literally, do nothing but read, watch, and, god help you, scroll. It’s harder to find joy. If you are lucky enough to be in Western North Carolina this week, however,…
It’s been a great thirty years….
This is a hard column to write. So I’ll just say it: AAR is retiring. All About Romance launched in 1996. It was created by the incredible Laurie Gold, and shaped over the past thirty years…
Reviewers’ Bests from 2019 to 2025
As we prepare for our 2026 AAR Top 100 Romances poll, I’ve been trying to narrow down the books that will be in the final poll–it’s just too overwhelming (and bad polling policy) to give people…
What books should be included on our upcoming AAR Top 100 Romances poll? Vote and let us know!
Here are the books, published in the last ten years or so, AAR readers have suggested we consider for our upcoming Top 100 Romance Novels of all time list. I’ve created a survey so we can…
The Best of the Best – Our Favourite books of 2025
So now the reviewing team has revealed their favourite books of 2025, it’s time for us to choose our single, favourite book of the year. Here are our choices – don’t forget to stop by and…
The Best of 2025 – Dabney’s List
Last year, I only read 23 books published in 2025. Of these, seven got five full stars from me and four more garnered four stars (on Goodreads.) For the purposes of this list, I am sticking…
Caroline Linden on How Not To Write A Romance Novel
Let me just get one thing out of the way: How to Get Away with Scandal is not a conventional romance novel. For one thing, it spans thirteen years from Chapter One to the Epilogue, telling…
