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Looking for Love on Every Deck

I just went on my first ever cruise and, whoa, it’s the perfect setting for a romance novel. (I was traveling with my daughter and not my husband so no shipboard love for me!) Everywhere I…

To the Wonderful Readers of AAR, a Request

This post is now closed. Keira will be contacting those of you who have said they’d like to participate. Thanks!   Through more than twenty years of All About Romance’s reviews, AAR’s readers have visited, read…

Sylvia Day talks to AAR about Butterfly in Frost. Plus, a BIG giveaway!

Prolific author Sylvia Day has a new book out. We had some questions for her and she–which is just lovely–has a fab giveaway for AAR readers.

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…

August TBR Challenge – Random Pick

What can I say about August? It’s hot, we’re all feeling a little languid and lazy – it’s the perfect time to have a random book pick in the TBR Challenge. No theme, no worries, just…

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…

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…

AAR Loves… Representation of Disability and Chronic Illness in Romance (Part One)

AAR’s Disabilities in Romance Special Titles List was last updated in 2013, and a lot of amazing books featuring disabled or chronically ill protagonists have been published or added to our database since then. We wanted…

Announcing the AAR Private Facebook Group: A Safe Space to Discuss Romance

Last year, when AAR published its latest Top 100 Romances List, many got furious at us for doing so in a way that didn’t encourage diverse romance. We took those criticisms to heart and our final…