Gotta Catch Her is a cute story with great characters and well written. I enjoyed reading it and hope to read more by this author.

This book was cute. I really wished it was longer but I liked it. Ann is something like me. She loves to love but also is very free and following her story was everything. The dog was a bonus I love books with animals in it.

This is an easy read. It was nice to read a romance novel that has non-traditional couples, but this just wasn't me. I didn't really love all the work talk. I skimmed those parts. The actual romance was not much. It was very little romantic interaction. I didn't love the phone game either...

This was not the right book for me. It was hard to get through and half way I had to stop. I am sure the story line would appeal to more of a gamer then myself.

I'm addicted to "Ani-min Move" and I'm a lesbian. So I could not request this book fast enough! The book is well written to the point where a person does not need to play AR games in order to understand what is happening. I've always wanted a success story to happen like this in real life. I personally know someone who met a single mother while raiding, but it did not end well...so I was very happy to watch this cute LGBT relationship develop.

Ann meets Rachael in the park near her home while playing the augmented reality smartphone game ‘Ani-Min Move’. They end up in the same team trying to capture a virtual creature. Finding it easy to get along is helped by Ann’s dog, Franny, and Rachael’s son, Connor, also hitting it off. They bump into each other a couple more times before Ann’s gathers the courage to ask Rachael for coffee. Ann isn’t sure if Rachael is straight or not and she knows little to nothing about children but takes the chance anyway.

I really enjoyed this novella because there is a strong sense of reality about it. There’s the awkward stage of getting to know one another along with the mundanity of daily work life. Both Ann and Rachael are struggling with their loneliness but in different ways. Their meeting doesn’t solve the problem but becomes another challenge that they both face.

This is a lovely gentle story which is just long enough to get to know the characters but also short enough to avoid any drawn-out angst.


Book received from Netgalley and NineStar Press for an honest review.

This cute romance is about Ann and Rachael. Ann meets Rachael when they both are in a local park to play a popular phone video game. Rachael helps Ann with some important tips and they have a nice moment with each other. Ann is not very confident in her personal life and has some anxiety issues. Rachael is a single mom who leads a busy schedule. To top it off Ann get a new project at work that is sure to consume her as the project really gets kicked off the ground.

Overall I thought it was cute. This book was different from a lot of other romances because the two MC's really weren't able to spend a ton of time together because of their hectic lives. The interaction they did have was cute. I did like how Ann grew out of her shell as the book progressed. There is a little angst in this one, but not overly done. I do wish there was a better connection between the two characters...maybe even more chemistry. Sure, they seems attracted to one another, but the limited interaction doesn't make it stand out.

This was a quick read even for me (I am a bit of a slower reader). I give it 3 stars.

Gotta Catch Her is a sweet read about two women, Rachael and Ann, who meet each other while playing a multi-player phone game. It is all taken from Ann's perspective, which gives good insights into what she is thinking as their relationship builds. Rachael is a bisexual single mom who is overstressed with work and all of the responsibilities that go with raising a first grader. Ann has little experience with parenting and it is interesting to see her perspective as dates are cut short and schedules have to be rearranged to accommodate the single mom. Many times, she feels left out and not a part of Rachael's life, despite wanting to be and trying her best.

The book also weaves in Ann's work and the pressures that are going on there and how she develops confidence that is needed by the end of the book for the relationship to grow.

I found the characters to be well written and situations to be very realistic. While it was a fairly short read, the characters are developed well over the course of the story. There is a very hot scene in the book that was very well written and left me smiling afterward.

If you are looking for a sweet story of two people trying to overcome the obstacles of life to get together, this will be an enjoyable read for you.

I was provided with an ARC of Gotta Catch Her for free from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review.

Charming, realistic lesbian romance that stays grounded despite it's meet-cute premise of a thinly-disguised Pokemon GO! app.

Very cute book. The story line was ok. There was really no plot per-say. But I followed the story and it flowed very well. The charcters were very easy to follow and to like. I’m sure many moms can even identify with..overall a great read.

A Pokémon-type game as a basis for starting a romance. An interesting premise.



Ann, a project manager, and Rachael, a single mom are both into an Ani-Min game which has ‘teams’ and ‘raids’ that require physical presence. They meet as one such raid and Ann’s interest is immediately piqued. Slightly socially awkward, Ann fumbles around to find out Rachael’s sexual orientation while working around her own crazy office workload and Rachael’s challenging lack-of-time as a result of being a single mom.

The story is narrated from Ann’s point-of-view so we know Rachael only from Ann’s perspective and from the interactions between the two of them. There are times in the middle of the book when Ann seems too closed and unable (unwilling?) to give anything emotionally to Rachael and to her colleague, Chelsea. However, at the end she does redeem herself. Rachael is really likeable which is why Ann gets even more frustrating in the middle.

It is also a little weird that even when the MCs are together, they first play their game on their phones and then pay attention to each other. That doesn’t seem like a lot of attraction or excitement happening between them. Or maybe, we are just a tad idealistic. However, the author has done a great job with imagining the game.

This is a short, easy read – may not stay with you for any length of time, but won’t make you feel like you’ve wasted your time either.

(One extra star here for Rachael – we really liked her!)

I have to admit up front that I'm not much of a phone game person, and never got into the Pokémon craze. Even not having any frame of reference for that type of thing, this book was still an adorable read.

MC Ann is a mid-level career girl bogged down in her office job. She's lonely and at the beginning, a bit socially awkward. Walks with her dog Frannie and gaming help her connect with MC Rachael. This whole story is told from Ann's POV, but we learn that Rachael is bi and has a young son who takes up all of her free time. The book centers on the struggles while these two work to find time to spend together.

I have to mention that this is quite a short read, clocking in at just over an hour for me. Being a short story, there was little time for the drawn out, intimate buildup for the MCs. Their relationship building time is spent mostly while gaming or at the park with the dog and son, or while texting. There's really not a lot of in person buildup time for the two.

All in all, I think this book would have been better served if it had been a bit longer, with more time spent on the connection between the two MCs. Because of the length, it felt like more of this book was spent with the two alone, trying to work out their individual work / life balances. For what it was, I think this was a good read, but I really would have liked to see more length and time spent showing how Ann connected to the son, and more scenes spent growing Ann nd Rachael as a couple before they even approached the discussion of eventually moving in together at the end.

It's a fast read though, and for what it was, I'll put this at 3.5 stars. Rounding down due to the short length.

**Many thanks to Nine Star Press for providing me with an ARC copy in exchange for my honest review.**

Ann, a single 20-something, is successful at her office job but suffers from the anxiety and loneliness that so many single, successful 20 somethings feel. To cope, she takes her dog - Frannie - for walks and plays Ani-Min Move, an AR mobile game. While participating in a legendary raid event, she meets Rachael, beautiful, kind, and possibly queer. Rachael's also a single mom. Between Ann's job, Rachael's kid, and both of their insecurities, can they make it work?

I really enjoyed this one. The premise was cute, clever, and felt very timely (the game also wan't just a pretext; some of the best descriptions in the book were of the legendary mini-mals). I felt like the book really had its finger on the pulse of what life as a millennial in today's workforce and queer dating scene is like, and Ann as a character was well realized and very accessible. Some deep questions about love, self-worth, and responsibility were brought up and dealt with in a way that was sensitive and thoughtful, even if they could have been developed a little more in the conclusion. The banter between the two leads was great, and the chemistry really built up well, which was impressive since it's a short read, maybe four to four-and-half hours for me.

All in all, I'd definitely recommend.

For the love of certain creature-based augmented reality games. This book was a serious yet short tale of a woman finding love, in all of its messiness, thanks to a still-popular augmented reality game that is *just* dissimilar enough from a very real - and, for a while, very popular - similar game to avoid a lawsuit. The author does a great job of showing the complexities of project management and the complexities of dating a single mother. Excellent book and one that leaves this reader hoping for more from this author and maybe even further tales of this particular couple.

Alrighty a solid 4/5 for me for Gotta Catch Her by Kelly Haworth with an extra A++ for solid use of "pokemon" in it's own world game. I enjoyed the characters and how trying to find life balance (or almost balance) before you even solidify a relationship. I do wish we also got Rachael's point of view as we only get Ann's though I really enjoyed Ann and I thought her work struggles and how Rachael dealing with being a single mom are both given fair treatment. I wish honestly that this was longer and that's probably for me my biggest hang up since they dont officially get together until almost the very end and I like seeing the after quite a bit to see how they officially work as a couple. I loved the use of this books version of pokemon as bringing the two women together but it is the only nerdy reference. But it was a lovely read overall and I have no regrets and the all the pokemon allusions are spot on.