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November TBR Challenge – Sugar and Spice

This month’s prompt for TBR Challenge was “Sweet or Spicy.” While most of the romances I read currently contain sex scenes, I think of erotic romance when I’m thinking of something truly spicy, and I see Caz had the same idea. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-11-19T10:54:09-05:00November 20th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: Amy Harmon, Gayle Buck, Reading Challenges, TBR Challenge|4 Comments
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October TBR Challenge – Paranormal or Romantic Suspense

This month’s TBR prompt, Paranormal or Romantic Suspense, is always fun. Both subgenres cover a lot of ground, so there can be an embarrassment of riches when it comes to picking out something to read. This time around, rather than pick one subgenre, Caz went with both and read a paranormal romantic suspense novel.Lynn, on the other hand, was craving some category romance, and after a false start with a Harlequin Intrigue from the 90s, ended up finding a much more recent Harlequin Romantic Suspense that worked rather well indeed. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-10-15T10:57:44-04:00October 16th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: Jordan L. Hawk, Kimberly Van Meter, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, TBR Challenge|10 Comments
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September TBR Challenge – Kickin’ It Old School

This month’s TBR Challenge prompt invites us to go into the Wayback Machine, or at least the Kinda Wayback Machine. Tasked with reading something more than ten years old, we both dug into our book stacks. Caz read a classic category novel by Mary Burchell, while Lynn went with a somewhat newer (though not quite new) historical from Cara Elliott. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-09-17T21:22:12-04:00September 18th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: Cara Elliott, Mary Burchell, Reading Challenges, TBR Challenge|2 Comments
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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 have fun. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-08-21T13:14:11-04:00August 21st, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Historicals, Lynn Spencer, Mysteries, Romance reading|Tags: Harlequin Historicals, Kaylea Cross, Michelle Styles, Reading Challenges, TBR Challenge|2 Comments
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July TBR Challenge – Contemporary Romance

Talk about an overwhelming prompt!  This month we are challenged to read a contemporary romance for the TBR Challenge, and that leaves readers with an embarrassment of riches as contemporaries have been in high supply for the past few years. I ended up choosing a sports romance which I had seen recommended on Twitter, and Caz went with an m/m contemporary that turned out to be a winner as well. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-07-16T16:36:46-04:00July 17th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Queer romance, Romance, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: Lily Morton, Queer Romance, Reading Challenges, sports romance, TBR Challenge, Zuri Day|2 Comments
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June TBR Challenge – Historical Romance

I have to admit that I loved being prompted to read a historical this month. Historicals and gothics were my first loves, but my reading habits have evolved over time, and I don’t read as many as I used to. And as frequent readers here well know, Caz is something of a historical maven, so between the two of us, we had a lovely time reading this month. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-06-19T13:14:35-04:00June 19th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Historicals, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: historical romance, Jane Feather, Sophia Holloway, TBR Challenge|0 Comments
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May TBR Challenge – Backlist Glom

Are you a book hoarder? Does your TBR pile more resemble a mountain – or a mountain range? If so, then this month’s TBR prompt would provide no trouble at all. There’s no restriction on genre or time period; we just had to choose a book by an author who is represented more than once in the TBR stack. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-05-15T08:57:23-04:00May 15th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: amanda Mccabe, Bec McMaster, TBR Challenge|6 Comments
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April 2019 TBR Challenge – Something Different

This month’s TBR prompt challenged us to read something different, so we stepped outside our usual genre comfort zones. Caz dove into a highly recommended science fiction romance, while Lynn took on a YA paranormal romance. One of us had a successful experiment, the other not so much. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-04-17T14:16:27-04:00April 17th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: Kelly Jensen, Reading Challenges, Syrie James, TBR Challenge|0 Comments
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March TBR Challenge – Favourite Trope

There’s something comforting about picking up a romance knowing that it contains a favorite plot trope. When I’m feeling generally frazzled and irritated at the world, I like to pick up a book with a plot that I know signals “comfort read” to me. […]

By Caz Owens|2019-03-20T08:29:21-04:00March 20th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: Dorothy Eden, Gothic romance, Lynn Raye Harris, TBR Challenge|6 Comments
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Feb TBR Challenge – Reading Series Romance

Authors and readers alike seem to love series. When an author builds a compelling world, one cannot help wanting to revisit again and again. So, with this month being series catch-up month on the TBR Challenge, we both went back into beloved series. Caz went with a gritty mystery that is one of a series following an m/m relationship while Lynn read one of the Rannoch/Fraser novels, a historical romantic suspense series that follows the leads’  marriage of convenience as it develops into love.

Paternity Case by Gregory Ashe

Paternity Case is the third in Gregory Ashe’s series of novels featuring two detectives based in the small Missouri town of Wahredua, Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset.  These are gritty, complex stories that are practically impossible to put down once started; the mysteries are twisty and really well-conceived but […]

By Caz Owens|2019-02-19T21:41:32-05:00February 20th, 2019|Categories: Caz AAR, Lynn Spencer, Mysteries, Queer romance, Romance, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: Reading Challenges, TBR Challenge|11 Comments
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