Heroes and Heroines in Romance Novels with Unusual Occupations

By |2022-05-12T21:16:00-04:00April 27th, 2022|Categories: Caroline AAR, Heroes, Heroines, Romance, Romance reading, tags|

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. Well, it turns out that these professions are actually so common in romance that they can fill out their own tags! “Prostitute,” “male escort,” and “gigolo” are currently captured by our sex worker tag. Even tattoo artists and coffee shop owners are romance novel leads more frequently than you think!

The list did turn up a few awesome and original careers, such as the […]

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Using Tags to Find Books You Love – Update

By |2021-07-01T10:01:24-04:00June 30th, 2021|Categories: Caroline AAR, Romance reading, tags|Tags: |

What’s going on in the wonderful world of book review tags at All About Romance? I’m so glad you asked!

Updating: Based on commenter feedback, I’ve revised my process for checking and/or updating the tags on new reviews.

For most categories, I don’t search for books which received a grade below B-. This is so that when you, the site users, click through on the tag, you can find books you might actually want to read without having to wade through the Cs, Ds, and Fs. I’m not saying you won’t find lower-scoring books in the tags, but I’m not going to extra effort to add/update them. […]

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She’s the Boss: CEO Heroines in Romance

By |2021-05-23T16:19:52-04:00May 24th, 2021|Categories: Caroline AAR, tags|Tags: |

When I was reading Bianca Mori’s One Night at the Penthouse Suite, one of the things that I loved was how unusual it is to read a billionaire romance where the billionaire is the heroine. And Cora Ciacho’s CEO position isn’t wallpaper: she spends the book actively making business decisions and fighting with her board to remain the executive, while trying to negotiate being a higher-earner and from a different class background to her boyfriend, Stephen Cruz. […]

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AAR Loves: The Best Slow Burn Romance Novels

By |2020-09-28T15:14:50-04:00September 29th, 2020|Categories: Caroline AAR, tags|Tags: , , |

As someone whose path to reading romance included a lengthy period reading X-Files fanfiction (oh, man, who else remembers The Gossamer Project???), I am clearly a huge fan of UST – Unresolved Sexual Tension. In romance, this is the slow burn phase, where the energy of characters’ attraction builds up and up before being released. That’s why I love and developed our Slow burn tag, which I used to make this list of top slow burn romance novels. […]

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