Happy Pride!
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Happy Pride!

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Shiver me Timbers–I love Our Flag Means Death!
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Shiver me Timbers–I love Our Flag Means Death!

The buzziest romance show streaming this spring turned out not to be season 2 of Bridgerton, but HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death (you can watch the trailer on HBO’s site here). OFMD stars Rhys Darby as the foppish and massively unqualified “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonnet  and Taika Waititi as the legendary Blackbeard…

July 2021 TBR Challenge – Secrets and Lies
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July 2021 TBR Challenge – Secrets and Lies

With a TBR Challenge prompt like “Secrets and Lies”, we couldn’t help but dig into the romantic suspense side of our respective TBR queues. Lynn came up with an inspy romantic suspense that had an unusual setup, while Caz went for a m/m romantic suspense with a plot that had plenty of twists and turns…

The Wayback on Wednesday: All About Romance Celebrates PRIDE 2018
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The Wayback on Wednesday: All About Romance Celebrates PRIDE 2018

LBGTQ+ PRIDE is celebrated in many countries throughout the world in June, and here at AAR, we’re doing our bit to celebrate the idea that Love is Love is Love and that romance is for everyone by choosing our favourite queer fiction and queer romances. We could all have chosen more than one (or two!),…

AAR’s Coverage of Queer Romance is on a roll!
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AAR’s Coverage of Queer Romance is on a roll!

Over the last decade or so, one of the fastest growing sub-genres in the romance market has been queer romance – mostly male/male romance, which is by far the largest and most popular part of that particular sector.  Apart from Harlequin’s Carina Press,  LGBTQ+ romance has mostly been the province of smaller independent publishers such…

Why Disabled Romance Is Important: A Guest Post by Brooke Winters
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Why Disabled Romance Is Important: A Guest Post by Brooke Winters

I started reading romance novels when I was 12 or 13. I remember reading them and thinking they were enjoyable but they weren’t about people like me. Nearly all of the characters were non-disabled, as well as being white, cis and heterosexual, and the few characters that were disabled were villains.

July TBR Challenge – Contemporary Romance
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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…

Feb TBR Challenge – Reading Series Romance
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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…

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