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You guys really love historical romance!

We will be launching our poll for the 2024 AAR Top 100 Romances list later this week. There will be 200 books to choose from, taken from a combination of the last AAR Top 100 Romances…

the ask@AAR: Wanna talk about dark romance?

This week some comments at AAR got me thinking about dark romance. The sub-genre is a broad one but, in general, dark romances have, duh, dark themes. They often traffic in kidnapping, non-con or dub con…

I’m sorry but Anne Hathaway is too beautiful for The Idea of You

A few nights ago, Dr. Feelgood and I watched The Idea of You. If you live in the States, you’ve probably seen one of the bazillion article/videos about this Amazon produced film. Critics have, given that…

Narrowing down the Reader Nominated List

OK! We had 92 books that were mentioned at least twice in our recent reader nominated poll. We will keep the 37 books that received three or more mentions. That leaves 54 books that got two…

the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite Meredith Duran book?

One of my all time favorite romances is Meredith Duran’s The Duke of Shadows. I read it, for the first time, a few years after it was published in 2008. The story, that of a half…

The top books nominated by readers for the AAR Top 100 poll

Here are the top books you picked to be included in our poll that are not in the current AAR Top 100. We had about 650 books nominated. All of these entries had three or more…

the ask@AAR: What will happen at AAR while Dabney is in India?

Hopefully, nothing! Although there won’t be Steals and Deals beginning tomorrow. I may try and add some to our Amazon page, so make sure to look there each day. We have scheduled reviews and, baring a…

The ask@AAR: What books do you feel should be on the 2024 AAR Top 100 Romances Poll?

YOU MUST ADD YOUR CHOICES TO THE SURVEY. WE WILL NOT BE ADDING THEM FROM THE COMMENTS. We are slowly creating a list of books that will be on the final AAR Top 100 poll. The…

The Top 50 from your picks from the 2018 AAR Top 100 List

For the past two weeks, we’ve been asking you for your choices for the top romances from the last AAR Top 100 Romances poll we ran in 2018. We plan to add your top 50 picks…

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