Cold Case Cowboy – Jenna Ryan
When I was seven, I spent the summer eating tuna fish sandwiches on French bread. And by spending the summer, what I mean is that I created an appropriate mix of tuna and Miracle Whip (we were not a real mayo family) and cut a baguette (or the 1970s version thereof) into little baby slices, then I parked myself on a chair at the kitchen table, propped up a book, and read and ate my way through the summer.
Man, I miss those days: reading and eating all day long without gaining a pound. Life was good when I was seven.
I have, naturally, exhibited similar obsessive-compulsive tendencies throughout my life. Like, well, you know, reading every single Harlequin Intrigue I could find (this was back in the olden days when I didn’t have emotional problems about buying used books). I’d purchase bags of books and read, read, read. This time without the tuna and French bread. You gotta accept reality at some time.
Wendy: In the last year, HelenKay and I, like so many other romance readers, have turned into unapologetic, drooling J.R Ward fangirls. Our reviews of the previous Black Dagger Brotherhood entries have been nothing short of a breathless, gush-fest wherein we extolled the greatness of the writing, the characters, the universe, the… well…everything. We just love these books. Which is why we’ve treated Lover Revealed to a back and forth discussion instead of the point-counter-point style we usually use for new releases.
Complaints about the romance genre inevitably include one that goes like this: it's all formula, so it all sounds the same. On its face, Fit To Be Tied by Karen Kendall seems to suffer from the problem. There's a wedding, a broken relationship, a dysfunctional parental marriage, somewhat immature main characters and a bitchy ex-wife. These are the ingredients of a been-there-before romance. But, while Fit To Be Tied is many things, the "usual" romance is not one of them. 
For a Few Demons More, the fifth installment in the Hollows series, reunites readers with bounty-hunter witch and all around kick-butt heroine Rachel Morgan. Her alternate history world – wherein the human population was nearly wiped out by genetically mutated tomatoes, a turn of events that allowed vampires, witches, werewolves and elves to live out in the open – is as complicated and conflict-filled as ever. As in previous entries, Rachel presides over the always life-or-death nearly world-ending actions of her fellow Inderlanders (those would be the non-humans) with moxie and questionable fashion sense.
Jayne Ann Krentz, in her many forms, has long been a favorite here at PBR. Specifically, JAK is a favorite of Kassia and HelenKay. It would be fair to say JAK is a distinct non-favorite of others (others in this case being Wendy). For those readers who discovered romance novels through JAK (those in this case being HelenKay), her work is a comfort, much like chenille blankets and potato chips. For some (some in this case being Kassia), JAK qualifies as an automatic reading pleasure and her early title, Absolutely, Positively, replete with robots and circus tricks, stands as one of JAK's most enjoyable works. So, in the spirit of promoting comfort, Kassia and HelenKay decided to revisit (without Wendy and her negativity) JAK's world of slim vegan heroines and controlling business-type heroes by checking in on an all-time fav. All members of PBR (both the pro-JAK crowd and Wendy) hope you will forgive the fangirl love.