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The Best of 2021: Best Belated Reads

By Caz Owens and Caroline Russomanno|2022-03-16T18:55:38-04:00February 2nd, 2022|Categories: Romance reading|Tags: Best Belated Reads, Best of, Best of 2021, CarolineAAR|

Every year I do a “Best Belated Reads” column to accompany my “Best of” column, because a lot of my year’s reading is not books that were published in that year. Here are some books I read and loved in 2021 which were published earlier, and which I finally caught up with!

The Society of Gentlemen series by KJ Charles (click link to find individual reviews).

I binged this SO HARD. I loved how the couples were all so dramatically different from each other, how their courtships intertwined with the social and political events of the day, how the recurring characters from previous books were actually interesting and relevant (and sometimes… gasp… troubled?) when they reappeared. The series is, quite simply, a triumph.

Buy at Amazon: A Fashionable Indulgence: A Seditious Affair: A Gentleman’s Position

Best Belated Reads of 2020

By Caroline Russomanno|2021-01-17T11:38:18-05:00January 17th, 2021|Categories: Romance reading|Tags: Best Belated Reads|

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 around to reading – and finally learned what all the fuss was about! […]

Best Belated Reads of 2019

By Caroline Russomanno|2022-01-29T17:23:33-05:00February 12th, 2020|Categories: Romance reading|Tags: Best Belated Reads, CarolineAAR|

I do my best to keep up with new releases, but my library, my secondhand store, and Kindle bargains slant heavily towards older books. During the year, I love this. I have enjoyed so many wonderful books I missed when they were new. It’s only when “Best of the year” time rolls around that I find myself grumbling that I don’t get to bang the drum about so many of my favorite reads just because they weren’t published this year! […]

Our Best – Belated – Reads of 2018

By Caroline Russomanno|2022-01-29T17:22:25-05:00December 1st, 2018|Categories: Romance reading|Tags: Best Belated Reads, CarolineAAR|

Are you always behind in your reading? Making a Best Books of The Year list is always a source of frustration for me, because so often, the best reads I had in any given year aren’t from that year at all. I want to celebrate them and shout about them, but if they’re not from 2018, they aren’t eligible for so many of our official posts!

I asked our staffers: what was your best belated read (BBR?) of 2018? Was it a famous book for which you’re really, really late to the party? A buried treasure you want to share with other readers?

Here’s what we came up with.

Caroline:

My BBR is Jeanne Lin’s The Jade Temptress. It’s the sequel to The Lotus Palace and contains many spoilers for that book, so I recommend starting with Lotus Palace. Lotus is […]