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It’s been a good year for diversity at AAR
As Caz wrote in her post on AAR’s coverage of queer romance, AAR has been working, over the past few years, to diversify the romances we review. Today we take a look at our reviews of romances by authors of color.
Whereas queer romance is generally measured by the content of the story (male/male romance, female/female romance, LGBTQ+ romance, etc), for ethnic and racial diversity, I looked at works by authors of color, rather than books featuring protagonists of color. […]
And the Winner of the AAR Best Book of 2020 Poll Is….
After three rounds and thousands of votes, the winner (by a landslide) is:
Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan
We are not surprised. The book got a glowing review here and our readers have raved about on the site. Congratulations, Ms. Ryan!
Tomorrow we will share the list of the other nine books that round out the top ten. It’s fabulous.
Twitter said AAR is the worst. Is it true?
Last Thursday, October 26th, was not a good day for AAR. By the day’s end, many on Twitter—romance authors among them—had tweeted and retweeted accusations that AAR and its readers are racist, sexist, and ablest. […]