What’s the book you’ve read in the last six months that you simply couldn’t put down?
For me, it’s Ninth House. Smart, engrossing and entertaining as hell. What about for you?
What’s the book you’ve read in the last six months that you simply couldn’t put down?
For me, it’s Ninth House. Smart, engrossing and entertaining as hell. What about for you?
Last week, I was thoroughly enjoying an upcoming historical romance when, in a fit of understandable anger, the heroine slapped the hero across the face hard enough to leave a mark. As I continued reading, I couldn’t stop thinking about how uncomfortable that made me. If he’d hit her, that would be unacceptable.
Here in the American Southeast, summer is closing in. When Sophie and I walk in my neighborhood, people are out in shorts and slides, and the sound of air-conditioning hums all around us. It’s hot and humid and, by mid day, the intrepid runners pelting past us two old ladies–Sophie is almost 11–are covered in…
We asked readers to take a short survey about what they read, what they want, and how they use All About Romance. Sixty people responded. The goal was simple: to gather concrete, specific feedback from people who actually use the site. This summary presents the results. All numbers below are drawn directly from the data,…
In 2022–including this one!–AAR has published 52 the ask@AAR columns. Many of these generated lots of comments. Readers had the most to say about their pet peeves in romance, trigger warnings in reviews, the election issues they felt the most passionately about, and romances that most love but that readers emphatically did not. Other topics…
What was the golden age of romance? For some, it’s the 1980s and 1990s—the era of Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, and Lisa Kleypas, when paperbacks ruled the checkout aisle and nobody apologized for a happy ending. Those books were big, emotional, and often hilariously–at least in retrospect–sincere. Heroines had jobs, men had feelings, and everyone…
I love second chance romances. Not the ones where people dated briefly in high school or had a youthful fling, but those stories where people fell hard out of love and now, years later, have a chance to try again. Give me a Cam and Gigi, a Tara and Ford, a Adam and Marissa, a…