Graphic novels have had trouble making the transition to e-reader format. In order to get the text large enough to read, you usually have to zoom in too far to experience the art. Plus, you lose your place on the page and can’t follow the flow of panels. […]
Hard as it is to believe, we’ve reached the final Coming Soon for 2019 releases. Soon, the AAR team will be looking back at their favourite books of the year, some of which will undoubtedly have been featured in these monthly posts, but for now, here are the new releases we’re most looking forward to getting stuck into in December. […]
In last week’s the [email protected], many of you longed for historicals featuring untraditional stories. So we want your recs. What historical romances with non-wealthy, non-aristocrat, non-white, non-heteronormative leads–or any other nontraditional aspects–do you love?
Hard as it is to believe, we’re heading into the last couple of months of 2019, and it’s time to have a look at the books the AAR team is most excited about reading over the coming weeks. As usual, we’ve got a nice mix of genres and authors, so hopefully there’s something here to appeal to everyone, whether you’re into contemporaries, historicals, thrillers or fantasy. […]
We listen to you, we really do. And we’ve noticed that you, along with several of our reviewers, aren’t all that happy with most – not all, but most – of the historical romance that’s been published in the past year or so. Using our Power Search feature, we looked at all the Historical Romance reviews we’ve written in 2019. We’ve given out 19 As, 47 Bs, 21 Cs, 13 Ds, and 2 Fs. […]
Most romance novels are about characters falling in love with each other for the first time. In a troubled marriage or troubled relationship story, these characters were in love at some point in the past, but now they’ve hit rough waters. […]
October… the nights are drawing in, the days are getting cooler (in the Northern Hemisphere at least) and as we all know, there’s nothing better on those chilly, dark evenings than curling up with a good book. […]
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. […]
