Dare I hope we’re shortly about to head into Spring? In my part of the world anyway, the weather is, if not precisely warm, then not so cold, and a few early daffodils and primroses are starting to poke their heads above the soil. That’s not to say winter is over – the British weather…
I think folks sometimes underestimate just how huge the romance genre is. I’ve been reviewing romance since I was in my 20s, and I’ve been reading longer than that. Even so, there are still PLENTY of new-to-me authors. Caz tried a new historical, and after several false starts, I made it through a new-to-me romantic…
Guess how many times AAR has reviewed Mary Balogh? 20? 30? 50? 60? Nope–we’ve written 69 reviews of Balogh’s works. She’s written 120. Our first review was in August of 1997, over 23 years ago, a DIK review of a lighthearted Regency romp called The Famous Heroine.
Over 1100 votes later, AAR readers have picked eleven books to compete for the Best Book of 2020. (I’d hoped for ten, but two garnered the same number of votes.) It’s a great list. All but one of the nominated romances received a DIK at AAR and the one that didn’t got a B+. This…
There are a LOT of books coming out this February – things seem to have kicked up a gear following a bit of a slow-down at the end of 2020 and now we’ve got a glut of excellent titles to choose from! Here are the titles the AAR team thinks are the best bets for…
After a year like 2020, I was honestly glad to see “comfort read” as the prompt for this month’s TBR Challenge. I needed one of those. As with many readers, most of my comfort reads are books I’ve read over and over, but both of us managed to find some new-to-us books in the TBR…
I want to spend my year reading books I love, and while that often means taking chances on new releases, I also spend a lot of time catching up on the books I missed from previous years. Please join me and some of my fellow AAR reviewers as we celebrate the books we finally got…
While the AAR staff each shares a list of books published last year they love, every year they are asked to come up with their FAVORITE read. This year, after being informed that “No, you cannot pick an author or a series,” most of our reviewers did indeed pick just one. Here are their choices….
2020 was a strange year for so many of us, and I’m beyond grateful for all the phenomenal books that helped me make it through the chaos. Below, I’m highlighting a few of my favorites in no particular order. The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon This was an utter delight from start to finish. I…
We’re introducing a new look for our monthly Coming Soon posts, but the essentials haven’t changed; the AAR team has looked through various lists of forthcoming releases and picked those we think are most likely to provide us with good quality reads over the next few weeks.
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