The Best of 2021 – Charlotte’s List

By |2021-12-21T10:40:37-05:00December 27th, 2021|Categories: Best of 2021, Best of List, Charlotte AAR|Tags: , |

Best of the Year lists are always a challenge for me, so I’ve restricted myself to books we’ve reviewed here at AAR. With that caveat out on the table, here goes. Interestingly, three-quarters of my list is composed of debut titles.

Love at First by Kate Clayborn

Clayborn’s next standalone after Love Lettering, Love at First is about a heroine who is trying to defend her beloved Chicago apartment building from the Airbnb fantasies of the new doctor in the place. […]

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The Best of 2020 – Charlotte’s List

By |2020-12-17T09:53:30-05:00December 7th, 2020|Categories: Best of 2020, Best of List, Charlotte AAR|Tags: |

It’s that time of year when we all start looking back at the things we did (and maybe didn’t do!) during the past months, and when sites such as ours start putting together lists of what we consider to be “The Best of 2020”.  This has certainly been a most unusual year, but we’re not planning on breaking with that tradition, so here without further ado, is our first “Best of” list, from Charlotte Elliott.  […]

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Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in February 2020

By |2020-09-07T08:47:52-04:00January 29th, 2020|Categories: Caroline AAR, Caz AAR, Charlotte AAR, Eagerly Awaiting, Evelyn AAR, Lisa F, Maria Rose, Romance reading, Shannon AAR, Upcoming releases|Tags: , |

The best thing about the long, dark, cold evenings is being able to curl up with a good book! Every month, AAR staffers comb through the lists of upcoming releases to find the ones we think we – and our readers – are most likely to enjoy, and now it’s time to look ahead to the books coming out in February 2020 we’re looking forward to reading. […]

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Our Favorites: The Best Romance Novels of 2019

By |2020-01-26T16:29:42-05:00January 27th, 2020|Categories: Anne Marble, Best of 2019, Best of List, Best of Romance, Caz AAR, Charlotte AAR, Dabney AAR, Evelyn AAR, Lisa F, Lynn AAR, Maggie AAR, Maria Rose, Romance reading|Tags: |

We call this annual column The Best Romance Novels of a given year and it is, but with a caveat. Each reviewer picks a single book she thought was the best – defined as excelling all others. Thus this is a list of individual choices rather than a voted on list by the staff. […]

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The Best of 2019 – Charlotte’s List

By |2019-12-28T21:40:12-05:00December 30th, 2019|Categories: Best of 2019, Best of List, Charlotte AAR, Romance reading|Tags: |

When it comes to romance, my criteria for greatness – or “best-ness” – is whether the story lingers with me. There are scenes or quotes that are so romantic and/or sexy that I can’t shake them and they’ll make me shiver happily when I recall them standing on a street corner waiting for a light to change, and make me think “oh, gracious, that’s life goals right there.” The books on this list are ones that lingered with me in 2019. […]

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