The Best of 2016: Alex’s (belated!) List
If I had to sum up 2016 in a sentence, I’d say it was the year I overestimated myself. It wasn’t a bad year, but as my life got busier, I kept thinking I could still…
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Scenes that make us swoon…. (Part One)
I asked the AAR staff to share the scenes from novels they found the most romantic. And, boy, did they come up with some exquisite scenes. Be prepared to swoon…. Keira: This scene is from the…
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Midweek Minis
Our team of avid readers continues to work tirelessly to point you towards the good, the bad and the… indifferent… when it comes to romance! Here’s another group of mini reviews from Alex, Caroline, Emily, Janet,…
Midweek Minis
AAR staffers are such avid readers that, in addition to our regularly schedule programme of daily new reviews, we’re able to bring you another in our series of mini-reviews. Here Alex, Heather, Melanie and Maria Rose share…
The Best of 2015: Alexandra’s List
When I chose Dark Horse by Michelle Diener as my favorite romance of 2015, I mentioned that I often have trouble thinking back to books I loved early in the year when choosing these things. Today when I…
Michelle Diener’s Dark Deeds: A Pandora’s Box
Today, Maggie and Alexandra tackle the second book in the Class 5 Series by Michelle Diener, Dark Deeds. The first book in the series, Dark Horse, made both of their Top Ten Lists for 2015. Does the second…
Searching for the Past in Present Day London
My imagination is a fickle thing. You would think that, as a voracious reader, it would be well developed and up to the task of imagining character’s faces, clothing, and homes. Sadly, no matter that I’ve…
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We pick the “Buried Treasures” of 2013
In 2013, self-publishing was mainstream, social media allowed authors more specific ways to publicize their work, and everyone had a strongly held opinion about what constituted a great romance novel. This environment makes the idea of…
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The results of the AAR Top Ten Lists are in and the winner is….
Back in April, we began, on each Tuesday, publishing a reviewer’s Top Ten list. There were no rules other than the books be in the romance genre. Over the next five months, we published twenty-three lists….
AAR Staff Top Ten Favorites – Alexandra's Picks
Although I know other reviewers and staff have had a lot of trouble deciding upon their top ten romance novels, I have to confess it was mostly easy for me. This likely has something to do…