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‘Tis the Season to be… Scary?! The Best Spooky Romances for Halloween Season

It’s October – Halloween season in much of the world! – and the supernatural is as much a part of the season as pumpkins and candy corn. Monsters are also longtime staples of Romancelandia! In the…

Pick the next AAR Good Time Book Club book!

We’ve narrowed it down to five books. Fill out the survey below or click here.

the ask@AAR: Can you handle a con?

We have an entire romance tag dedicated to “cons and frauds,” people who are in some way faking, and a number of those books have DIKs. Con artists give me the absolute hives.

It’s another survey!

This survey will close today, Saturday October 17th, at one pm! Three little questions… one’s about the next book club!

A Blast from the Past Post: the AAR 2006 Annual Reader Poll

Here’s another Blast from the Past from March of 2006. Enjoy! AAR 2006 Annual Reader Poll (For 2005 releases) “Jump link” to Accompanying ATBF Column

Old vs New: What do you like in your reviews?

Over half (21 of 38) books I’ve reviewed for AAR in 2020 are not books that have been published this year. My oldest? Marion Chesney’s 1983 Regency The Miser of Mayfair, re-released in 2011 under her…

Romance Reading Quiz Answers: Part Four

AAR readers have long loved historical romance, a trend that appears to still be true. You chose historical romance (44 votes) as your favorite genre in romance by almost twice as many votes as the next…

the ask@AAR: What do AAR readers owe the authors we read?

This year, I have gotten more emails from authors and publishers unhappy about negative reviews and/or comment threads here at AAR than I have in the previous five years. It’s not a huge number but we’ve…

Romance Reading Quiz answers: Part Three

  We asked you what the worst romance novel you’ve read this year is and, with a few exceptions, you all nominated different reads that didn’t work for you. Several of the nominated books have gotten…