[ARC Review] A Cat Café Christmas by Codi Gary
Veterinarian and animal lover Kara Ingalls needs a Christmas miracle. Opening the Meow and Furrever Cat Café to find loving homes for adorable, adoptable cats was a dream come true—but with more cats than customers, it’s quickly turning into a nightmare. If Kara can’t figure out some way to get the café out of the red, it won’t last past the holidays.
Marketing guru Ben Reese may be annoyingly smart and frustratingly bossy, but when he hatches a plan to put the café in the “green” by Christmas, Kara realizes that she’d be a fool to turn down his help. And so what if he turns out to be an excellent problem solver and nerdy-hot—he can’t even handle fostering one little kitten. She needs to keep their relationship professional and focus on saving the cafe.
But if Ben and Kara can set aside their differences—and find homes for all the cats by Christmas—they might discover that, by risking their hearts, they’ll have their own purr-fect holiday . . . together.
My thoughts: I've never read a Codi Gary romance I didn't love, and A Cat Café Christmas is definitely no exception.
Closed door romances usually aren't my thing, but Gary does such a wonderful job at developing the characters and fostering those relationships that I find myself not caring that the romance is sweet and not the least bit explicit.
Ben and Kara were adorable in the way they went from bickering to flirting; I thought both characters were realistic and well written. They both had excellent reasons for their actions, but I loved that they were both mature enough to eventually grow beyond their past and live for the future.
He does marketing. She's weary of attention after being burned in the past. He doesn't like cats. She owns a cat café and rescue. They are 1000% opposites, which made their growing romance all the cuter. Watching them grow together - for the sake of the other - couldn't have played out any better.
Full confession: I am very much a cat person. I actually have no idea how Kara a) kept talking to Ben after he said he wasn't a cat person, and b) didn't just end up keeping all the cats herself when the Meow and Furever Cat Café was in trouble. That would've been a tempting solution if that was me.
This was an adorable holiday romance, and I highly recommend this book (and any Codi Gary books) to anyone looking for more sweet than spice in their opposites attract romance.
[Thank you to Forever for providing a review copy of this title! All opinions are my own.]
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Release date: 10/4/22
Format: eARC/galley
eARC provided via: NetGalley
Galley provided via: publisher
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