We can’t believe the year is three-quarters over. Sweet Savage Flame has more books to read and review before the year ends. Here is out TBR list for Autumn 2022.
romance books
Top Twenty Best Zebra Historical Romance Novels
Want to know what the best Zebra historical romances are according to readers? We’ve got the answer with Goodreads’ top 20 list.
Category Romance Authors Who Made It Big
Many popular authors of mainstream fiction got their start writing series or category romance. These 7 authors got their start with Silhouette, Harlequin, Loveswept, or Dell Candlelight romances.
7 Ways to Get Over Reading Slumps & Get Your Mojo Back
Have you lost that reading feeling? Sweet Savage Flame suggests 7 strategies to end that reading slump and get your mojo back!
Bookish Talk: A to Z Survey
This A- Z list of bookish preferences originated on Perpetual Page Turner’s book blog in 2013 and was reignited as a book tag in 2020. I haven’t been tagged, but I thought this was a fun list to complete.
Sweet Savage Flame’s 6 Heat Levels in Romances
In romance novels, heat levels can range from as tepid as room temperature to as hot as the sun. Sweet Savage Flame has created a list with what we think are 6 different levels of heat in romances. These range from no heat to closed and open-door love scenes to pornography.
Two Gay Romance Firsts: The Happily Ever After Ending and Clinch Cover
Gordon Merrick created the legendary Peter & Charlie gay romance series. The trilogy portrayed the first mainstream love story between two men that concluded happily ever after. Another milestone in gay fiction occurred when they were reprinted in the 1980s. A young artist named Victor Gadino illustrated the iconic clinch covers. Never before had two men been pictured so intimately on romance novels.
Most Expensive and Hard to Find or Out-of-Print Romances
We’ve compiled a list of some of the most difficult old-school romance novels to track down. Some of these books we’re lucky to have in our collection, others we once had and sold or lost (how foolish!). And finally, there are those we’d pay our weight in gold to have.
Celebrities on Romance Book Covers
Before they were famous, their faces were on book covers. While these celebrities appeared in various genres, we’re limiting our focus to romance. It’s always fun to track the career of the rich and famous to their humble beginnings, especially if they posed for clinches!
