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The Best of 2025 – Maria Rose’s List

This year my reading list was quite varied with more mysteries than in the past, and I did a lot of comfort rereads (KJ Charles, I’m looking at you). But I still found time for some…

My New Year’s goal: Fail

Here is my goal for 2026: Fail. I’m going to fail to start listening to podcasts because, frankly, I like my own thoughts and the sound of very little. I’m going to fail to do more…

Coming Soon – The Books We’re Most Looking Forward to in January 2026

We would love to hear which books you’re looking forward to in the coming weeks. Here are a few from our AAR reviewers. (You can see them all at Amazon here.) Are you excited about any of these?…

The Best of 2025 – Laura’s List

My second year of reading and reviewing romance for All About Romance and I’ve found many books to enjoy, many of them romances that are not just ‘good’, but also fresh – at least to me.…

Robin Hood (2025) – A Review

On November 2, 2025, MGM+ released the latest in a very long and prodigious line of adaptations of the Robin Hood story. Appropriately – if unoriginally – named Robin Hood, it’s a ten part series that…

The Best of 2025 – Kayne’s List

It’s that time of year when we make our Best of the Year lists here at AAR and I’m excited to share my favorite reads of 2025. While I read more mysteries and women’s fiction this…

the ask@AAR: What were your bests of 2025?

It’s that time of year where everyone–NO, Spotify, I am not 72!–makes, shares, and reads endless Best of Lists. Over the next few weeks, you’ll see more of our Best of Lists, serving up our choices…

The Best of 2025 – Lisa’s List

It has been one hell of a year for me; too many changes, too much stress, too much going on. BUT I still found some time to read, review and write for AAR – and just…

Whether you believe or not, I wish you a Merry Christmas!

I lost my faith in God by thirteen, though not before giving the heavens every chance to make their case. I’d sit in my tree fort, legs dangling (it was the 70s and thus remarkably unsafe)…