Extras

Best of:

Best of 2011
Best of 2012
Best of 2013
Best of 2014
Best Current Contemporary Romance Authors*
Top 5 Sex Scenes in Contemporary Romance* 

Illustrated Reviews and Discussions:

• An Illustrated Review: Guardian Demon by Meljean Brook
• Book Talk: Guardian Demon by Meljean Brook (A Long Post with Crappy Pictures)
• In which I Use a Bunch of Arrows to Illustrate the Plot of K.A. Mitchell's No Souvenirs

Heroine Week:

• All the posts can be found here.
• First post and schedule here.

Opinion:

(Find all posts here)

• A Bushman's Holiday (or When Characters Have the Same Job You Do)*
• Best Current Contemporary Romance Authors*
• Criminals and Heartbreakers
• Dude, Where is my Lit? The New Incarnation of Chick-Lit is... Dude-Lit?*
• Early Reviews: Love'em or Hate'em?
• Genre Wants that I Hope Become Gots: A Christmas List of Tropes, Stories and Characters
• Is Anticipation the New Gratification?
• I Wish Someone Had Told Me! Reader Expectation and Surprise Content
• NA and the Limitations of Romance: One and Only by Viv Daniels
• New Adults: What is it, and What Should I Do with It?*
• Nice Girls Don't Review Books (Drama Llamas in 2012)
• Oh No He Didn't!: The Cheating Hero*
• Play Ball!: Celebrating the Home Runs in Sports Romance*
• Play With Me!: Romance Novel Heroines and Their Sex toys*
• Random Musings: Blogging Platforms, Publishing Experiments and Spoilers
• Rape in New Adult: Cheap Plot Devices and Lazy Narrative Shortcuts
• Same New, Same New: Social Media, Hype, Book Discoverability, ARCs and Blog Homogenization
• Second Time isn't Always a Charm: Re-Reading Expectations
• Sex and the Romance Novel: Satisfaction by Sarah Mayberry
• Small-Town Romances: How Many is Too Many?
• The Boys are Back in Town: An Introduction to Male/Male Romance*
• The Ginger Hero: Romance's Readheaded Stepchild?*
• The Not-So-Secret Baby on the Cover (Humorous take on some Harlequin covers)
• The Thin Red Line Between Romance and Erotica (Sensuality ratings and the difference between Romance, Erotic Romance and Erotica)
• Those Were the Times: How I Discovered Book Blogs 
• You Just Keep Me Hanging On: Cliffhangers in Romance Novels*
• When Euphemisms Attack: Guest Post by Author KT Grant (Euphemisms in Romance Novels)

Special Reviews:

• Angry Heroines and End-of-Life Decisions: Heartbeat by Elizabeth Scott
• Big Fat Book Readalong: The Stand by Stephen King
• Can a Bad Romance be a Good Romance? Room at the Inn by Ruthie Knox
• Good Love Stories, Bad Romances, and Power: Unsticky by Sarra Manning
• It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Chocolate Temptation by Laura Florand
• NA and the Limitations of Romance: One and Only by Viv Daniels
• Sex and the Romance Novel: Satisfaction by Sarah Mayberry
• Six Reasons Why I Won't Finish R. Lee Smith’s The Last Hour of Gann
• When Good Authors Happen to Bad Tropes: Uncommon Passion by Anne Calhoun

Challenges: 

TBR Challenge 2011 I failed miserably here so no more challenges for me (Brie)

* Post on Heroes and Heartbreakers