🎄🐈A Cat Café Christmas🐈🎄

Rating: 4/5⭐️

If you want a cozy Christmas romance featuring some adorable cats then this book is for you! Codi did it again with this sweet story between Kara and Ben. Both have been burned by relationships in the past and I loved watching these two learn to trust each other and open their hearts back up.

Each chapter started with a new cat and funny fact about them. Plus they had the cutest names!if you are a cat lover or a Christmas lover like me then this book is for you!

This was a fun quick holiday read! Kara is doing everything she can to save her cat café before the end of the year, and I was roooooting for it to survive and prosper. When she finds out Ben, the stranger outside the cafe, is responsible for the irregular crowd of people, she instantly dislikes him. Unluckily for both of them, Ben finds a kitten at the his home's construction site and didn't know where else to go.

It took me a while to warm up to their characters because some of their behavior at the beginning was irritable, but I definitely understood where they were coming from as I kept reading. Their banter back and forth was so funny, and watching them get used to each other was fantastic. I loved the aspect of them helping each other, especially Ben being there and pushing for the cafe to thrive. :')

Overall a good little holiday read! Had some really funny moments and some really cute ones. Extra points for cute cats with funny personalities.

Thank you Netgalley, Codi Gary, and Forever Grand Central Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

↠ 3.75 stars

Ugh. I wanted to love this book as I'm a cat lady for life. The plot is right up my alley. However, it was so slow and I just couldn't get into it. You have to make it to 60% in the book when Christmas season is finally in swing.

Very cute book. Not super Christmas-y and some of the dialogue was pretty cheesy, but it was still very entertaining. I loved the little descriptions at the beginning of each chapter. I liked the subplots with both of their exes and I get why Ben didn’t want to forgive his brother.

A Cat Christmas Cafe by Codi Gary
Genre: Holiday Rom Com
Rating: 4 stars

What a little cutie! I totally enjoyed this book and it's perfect holiday hallmark feels. Plus all of the CATS! <333
If you love cats, you should totally pick this one up. It was so fun.

-Quick read
-grumpy/sunshine
-opposites attract
-second chance romance
-drama
-Cats, obviously

Kara Ingalls is recovering after a terrible heartbreak after her horrible fiancee embezzled charity funds and drug her name through the mud and ruined her reputation.
Ben is recovering after his heartbreak of his girlfriend leaves him for his brother.

Kara co-owns a Cat Cafe with her bestie where they have a cat adoption center/small vet clinic. Enter Ben who is a marketing wiz who is hired to do some publicity for the cafe. You think this would be a meet cute, but Kara is quite startled and anxious when she realizes the marketing he has done has created quite the buzz with the cafe. With her past trauma with the media, Kara is hesitant about the new buzz surrounding the cafe which turns Kara on Ben.

A few days later, Ben finds a cute little stray kitten and turns it in to the cafe. The cafe doesn't have any space for the new kitten so Ben starts to foster him which then keeps Kara and Ben in contact.

I have always been a cat lover so I loved that the beginning of each chapter highlighted one of the cats that were up for adoption! I thought that was such a cute, unique addition to the book.

Both Ben and Kara experience a lot of healing in this book which I think was really great for the character development. I really enjoyed this book and the cute little adventure it took me on!

Starting a petition for more authors to write cat rom-coms.

A bit of a flop for me unfortunately. A decent story but I couldn’t connect to it in any way. I bet cat people will love this book though!

Maybe more like 2.5 stars?

What I liked:
•kitties. This concept of a cafe that adopts out cats is cute.
•a little romance ~ I just didn’t feel their vibe
•cute, sweet story to pass time.

What I didn’t like:
•the vet/cafe owner being mad that the person who rescued a kitten from a property was not a cat person. I mean…lots of people aren’t meant to be pet parents. Of course, that became the love interest.
•not much of a plot
•I just didn’t care much, but was invested in finding out the ending
•Christmas was like 1 chapter of the book. If it’s in the title, set it in Christmasville, USA!

I recommended this book to a friend yesterday who was having a rough day and she loves cats. I think this book has an audience that will enjoy it. It was just not my favorite. Thank you @netgalley for the advanced ebook. The book was published in October ~ but with Christmas in the title, I delayed till after Halloween. Turns out it doesn’t matter when you read it.

Book 85 of 2022

I enjoyed this title more than I thought I will.

I’m not a big fan of Christmas books but this one sounded interesting and that cover is really cute, plus some of my Booksta friends are raving about it so I had to read it myself as well.

The meet cute and all the good guy part had me rooting for them from the beginning and I loved how while it’s a very slow burn romance , it touches many topics that I’m always curious to read about because authors have a great imagination.

Very grateful to the publisher for my review copy

•“Even when you talk in zigzag sequences, I understand you.”•

This book was adorable! I loved the sweet nature of it and the ease of the characters as they build chemistry.

Kara and Ben are such kind souls both dealing with their own heartaches when they meet. I really enjoyed that this book takes you through their budding relationship and you get to see how they each deal with their own insecurities and issues.

Just such a well written, well paced, great overall book for the holidays or anytime of the year.

DNF - Wasn't an overall fan of the FMC or MC which takes away from the enjoyment of the book overall. Also, judging someone for not liking animals, should not be an indicator of a personality trait. It means they're responsible enough to know that they should own animals.

I will never say no to cats!

As someone who worked at a low-cost animal clinic and also a cafe (at different times) and have enjoyed trips to cat cafés in different states and countries, this sounded like the purrfect choice for me!

I do absolutely love Halloween, but this book was a nice palate cleanser for all of the horror and thriller I’d been loading onto my plate over the last month or two.

This was a really easy and quick read; I could picture it in my mind as I was reading it. You get a bit of backstory, people who are multi-faceted and have complex feelings, and cats. The chapter intros as cat bios was really quite fun!

This really reflects all of the hard work that goes into animal clinic care, fostering/adopting as well as the effect after the fact. It brought some cool ideas that I could see picking up in today’s world of catfés. Hoping this brings a new appreciation for vets, vet techs and admin workers who help with any kind of animal care.

In addition to spreading the cat love, it gets you ready for the holiday season. Not much says cozy quite like curling up with a book, a hot tea or coffee and a cat to cuddle with you while you read.

Thank you to the author, Codi Gary, Forever Publishing and NetGalley for the arc ebook copy of this book!

I flew through this book! I would read any time I got the chance, even if that meant reading only a page or two!

I relate so much to the main character, Kara. The things she loves: The Holiday, cats, and helping others.


She has ADHD and talks a mile a minute, usually to the chagrin of others. With Ben though, that’s not the case. He enjoys talking to her and can always keep up with her change in topic in the middle of a sentence. They are a great pairing, both having been out of a relationship for only a year or two and both not truly ready to dive back into dating. They decide to casually date each other as healbounds (not rebounds). They both don’t like social media because of what it entails: seeing your friends and families happy posts even when you aren’t feeling particularly happy (Ben) and other people finding you and harassing you (Kara). Kara’s ex-fiancé, Ferris “Worthy” Worthington, was bad news. He did awful things and it is why Kara hates all types of media. Ben’s ex-girlfriend ended up with his brother and so he deleted his social media.

We have a dual-POV as we learn about how the cat cafe is struggling and Ben, with his partner Schwartz, come up with a marketing strategy to help out. Kara and Charity, her business partner, had opened up the cafe in April and were afraid they were not going to be able survive to the new year. With the marketing strategy and Ben’s “25 Days of Camas” idea with giveaways, they worked their butts off, as well as upped their social media game and it paid off!

Each chapter is titled with a different cat available for adoption along with a description. It’s so cute!

Side note: I think it would be so much fun to own and run a cat cafe that helps the community and local shelters!

I love books with cute animals. I love the chemistry between Kara and Ben - maybe it's pheromones? This was such a fun, quick read.

This is a Hallmark moving waiting to happen! If you're ready to deck the halls, don't forget to include this book!

This book is very readable, I kept wanting to turn the pages. I also loved the cat bios at the start of each chapter (with the art too) very cute!!

That being said this book was just okay. It felt like a Hallmark movie (like a fun time, but not like actually that good). My main issue was the dialogue, it didn't feel real at all and it just felt stitched together. Kara was a decent character, but Ben was just ehhh. The man is upset his fiancée left him for his brother (sorta valid) but they were barely together and the man moved across the country and won't speak to his parents bc of it? grow up.

I also hate when books try to make raunchy jokes "PG" or kid appropriate. Just leave them out or write the dirty joke!! These weird walk around have me confused!!

IDK I'm probably not the target audience here except for the fact that I love cats so much.

This was such a cute book! To me it really read like a hallmark Christmas story, and I’ll definitely recommend it for those wanting to read that this holiday season! It moved a bit too fast for my liking, but I loved the main characters and I loved the cats.

This was a wonderful cat-tastic Christmas romance. You instantly are cheering for Ben and Kara, all the while appreciating the apprehensiveness they both have towards not only romantic relationships, but interactions with others. It is a relatable tale of your past forming how you move forward. Codi is able to write these relationships in such a way that you devour the pages. To say I fan girled when my signed copy arrived would be an understatement! Thanks @authorcodihallgary 😻
Also - this book made me want all the cats!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever for the E-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

🐈 A Cat Cafe Christmas by Codi Gary

I love cats SO much, so I immediately knew I had to read this adorable holiday romance 🤣 I thought Kara and Ben were an adorable couple. Also, I loved reading as they both grew as individuals and overcame the challenges they’d dealt with for years. It added some substances to this otherwise light rom com 🎄 [thank you @netgalley and @readforeverpub for the #gifted e-book]!

I thought a Christmas novel set at a cat café would be right up my alley, but this book wasn't for me. From the first few pages, I already knew the writing style wasn't for me, but I wanted to give it a proper shot, so I stuck with it. However, it didn't get better. The female lead got on my nerves from the beginning, jumping to the conclusion that the male lead was the devil incarnate without any real reason. It felt forced. The male lead also was a little misogynistic, calling her a "crazy cat lady" in the first chapter. I'm all for "crazy cat lady" as an affectionate term (I call myself that often), but when it comes from a place of malice, I'm totally over it. It started to get a little better when the male lead found a kitten, but the female lead's reaction to him not wanting to take care of it when he is in the middle of construction on his house just tipped me over the edge.

Thank you, NetGalley and Forever for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book reads like if Fox's Call Me Kat and a Hallmark Christmas Movie had a baby, and that's a good thing. The cat profiles at the beginning of each chapter were a nice touch.. As for the romance aspect between Ben and Kara, it felt like it unfolded organically. It wasn't rushed, and had very real bumps in the road due to past relationships. The friendships between Kara and Charity, and Ben and Schwartz were also a nice bonus as well.

Overall, a quick light-hearted holiday rom-com type read. Thank you to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

Oh, the CATS! This was just a sweet and cute little holiday romance. Let's start off with the utterly cute and creative way the author started off each chapter with a funny little blurb on each adoptable cat. I loved it and it made the book.

I loved the main characters (Ben and Kara) and their stories, I loved watching them grow and trying to heal from past relationships and hurt. I loved seeing them grow together. The conflict was annoying, but they always are.

I'm hoping for a second book? With the two best friends?

Loved the whole concept of this book. The cats in a coffee shop, Wish we had that locally!

No smut, which I appreciated. Just a wholesome cute book to read - especially if you love Christmas, cats and coffee shops.