Heroes and Heroines in Romance Novels with Unusual Occupations
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Heroes and Heroines in Romance Novels with Unusual Occupations

I’ve been developing our “unusual occupations” tag, and I need your help! I stated by visiting our old Special Title listings for Unusual Professions. Let me tell you, some of those jobs are a LOT more popular than we evidently thought. We have characters on that list who are, for example, archaeologists, paleontologists, and botanists….

A Retro Write: Yes We Can! Our favorite Activist Heroines
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A Retro Write: Yes We Can! Our favorite Activist Heroines

originally published on February 3, 2017 Women have a long history of standing up for their beliefs, and there are great romance novels starring heroines doing just that. American and British suffragettes (or suffragists), Civil Rights activists, lawyers, writers, organizers, and military rebels – you’ll find all of them here, and more. Let these ladies…

Winsome or Loathsome: Daphne Bridgerton
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Winsome or Loathsome: Daphne Bridgerton

Given the phenomenal interest in Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series, we thought it would be fun to republish this! originally published on March 2, 2015 Welcome to our new column, Winsome or Loathsome. (I was rooting for Dreamgirl or Disaster but was outvoted.) Like its counterpart, Dreamboat or Douchebag, this column will look at well-known heroines and…

Anticipating Matilda – Mary Balogh’s next heroine
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Anticipating Matilda – Mary Balogh’s next heroine

When I read Mary Balogh’s Only Beloved, the seventh and final book in Mary Balogh’s Survivor’s Club series which took as its heroine Dora Debbins,  a thirty-nine-year-old spinster, who had “lost all hope of marriage,” I thought good on Balogh, venturing into rather virgin territory where women of a certain age, cherished within their family,…

Can we be BFFs? Or, ah, can I be you? (the TV version)
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Can we be BFFs? Or, ah, can I be you? (the TV version)

Jenna’s recent Laminate Freebie List post started a fair bit of discussion on the site and behind the scenes at AAR, and we began to discuss the possibility of making some other lists, and talking about what we’d do if we did.  In the end, we’ve rolled two of our most popular suggestions into one,…

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Are you reading the Mary Russell series? Because it’s great.

Has anyone here not read the Mary Russell series yet? If so, stop now and go find yourself a copy of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and meet young Mary Russell, 15 years old and orphaned, and snarking at a much older Sherlock Holmes who has retired to Sussex and beekeeping. Pulling heavily from Doyle’s representation of…

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Jessica Trent: Winsome or Loathsome?

Welcome back to Winsome or Loathsome, the column in which AAR staffers lobby for and against controversial heroines. Today’s heroine is the leading lady of Loretta Chase’s Lord of Scoundrels, Jessica Trent. Jessica is cool under pressure – her grandmother calls her “magnificently objective” – and does things like calmly looking at a naughty watch…

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