A big thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks/Casablanca for the eARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. This is a 2nd chance romance. I liked the main characters. Lindsay and Brad are fun. This seemed a little sappy but ok. A pretty quick read. 3.5 stars

Oh man. It took me a while to get my thoughts around this book. It started off strong and then after 1/3rd of the way through, I just didn’t want to pick it up. I thought I was because I was reading other books and trying to get though some library books, but when I picked it up the other day I realized that it was just that every chapter was just the same a the previous.

They can’t get over their trust issues. They don’t know how to be together. His father is homophonic. Blah, blah, blah. There was just nothing to moving the plot forward from 30-60%. I decided to stop torturing myself and DNF at 61%

Pastry chef Brad Marks is the newest addition to the Whitman Street cat cafe, where treats are made and served to both people and cats alike. All the customers love Brad and writer Lindsay Somers did too until Brad broke her heart years before. She is assigned to write a story on the cat cafe, which leads to her being back in Brad's life.
The description of this book was more interesting than the actual book to me. It wasn't completely terrible but it could have been better. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy.

I generally love second chance romances but this one just missed the mark for me and I ended up not finishing the book. This book featured Brad, a chef cooking treats for humans and cats alike at the Whitman Street Cat Cafe, and Lindsay, his ex. Overall this had good potential but the long, drawn out push/pull between them just went on too long for me.

3.5/5*

I was really glad to step back into this series once i saw that this book was getting published. While i do enjoy a second chance romance story, i felt that this story lacked something. We meet Brad and Lindsey who once dated for five years but broke up due to a misunderstanding on brad’s part. While i personally don’t condone cheating at all, i wasn’t a fan of Lindsey having to bring it up almost every time when these two were together. There were ups and downs after they see each other, but the way Lindsey handled it for some reason i wasn’t a huge fan of. And even though most of us knows how the story ends, i felt that there was something missing. Maybe it could’ve been a bit more dramatic who knows. It was missing something that’s for sure.

It was nice to see Lauren and the other characters from the previous two books to play catch up and how their lives have been since we’ve last saw them. Though i do hope for evan’s story one day.

Despite all of it, i did enjoy it the book but sadly not as much as I’d anticipated. I do hope we get to see more of them soon especially the kitties

*thank you netgalley and the publishers for the copy of this e arc**

This is my first book in this series. The concept is what made me want to read this one. imagine your ex being hired at your bestie's work. You now have to avoid and/or see him regularly.

And to make things more awkward he wants you back. He wants to explain and he wants to work things out.

Lindsay is trying to live her best life as a restaurant review Yes so what she has had trust issues since her parent device and she never got over Brad but she is thriving

Brad has found an opportunity to work at a place where he can make the menu and have the freedom - it's just a win-win that the girl he never got over is best friends with the owner

This romance was cute with a bit of grit. I loved that Linday and Brad work through their issues as adults and recognized their issues.

I did think this was a bit too long and a little repetitive. Once the issue of what broke them up, and how they can fix it was established I was a little bored with the plot.

what would have been kinda new is if some sort of couples therapy was added to the story. All in all, this was a cute romance

Great fun read about love and cats. Lovely writing from this author. Thank you to net galley for letting me review this

A man who bakes, a cat cafe, and a load of great side characters should have made this book great. Unfortunately, I hated Lindsay (the female lead). She was so tiresome. She is super wishy-washy and constantly bickers with Brad (the male lead). How he handled it, I'll never understand. I didn't care about them as a couple at all. 

This book will go on my short list of books where the female lead doesn't deserve the male lead. 

I will not be posting this on my socials since my rating is so low, but I will post to Goodreads.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for this book in exchange for an honest review.

Only the sappiest romances for me please!! Loved this can't wait to read more by the Kat McMurray, loved the story, characters and plot. blew through this in a matter of hours

This is straight-up a 2000s rom-com. I cannot find a sappier romance these days. I am jealous of fictional people right now, lol.

I wanted to love this story as the premise in the description and overall cover made me look forward to reading it. And something was not exactly in favor here (in my mind at least).
The heart of our MC was broken five years ago - Lindsey - and now she has to deal with her ex when he starts to work at her best friend's cafe. Awkwardness coming HARD! And why Lindsey and her ex are getting on the same orbit - she's a journalist who critiques restaurants and this is what she does for a living. Do you need to know more about her? Well not here... which makes us not able to connect with her...
To be honest I don't know what to think about Brad... he's a pastry chef that started working at the cafe that's owned by Lindsey's friend. He can make friends with anyone, but our h is not his fan due to well-known reasons. Yet this could be avoided...but those characters were not talking and trying to resolve what had happened (in a really childish way...).
Eh... they did not amend what had happened in their past, but after one event they started something more between each other, which did not make sense, unfortunately... I thought why I could not connect with this book - so maybe the reason was that Chasing Your Tail is book 3 in a series (but it's not connected to the way characters were crafted)..

Brad and Lindsey are exes, and now he is working for her friends in her favorite coffee shop. She was wrong years ago, but will it mean a second chance for them.
Great read, looking forward to more books from this author.

Full review to come on Goodreads and Amazon. Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for a review copy.

I did not like this book. I didn't like the characters, together or on their own. And some of the characters actions made me extremely uncomfortable.

💭Thoughts:
Do you ever read a book that you want to love and just can’t?! That was this book for me. It had all the the makings of a great book- cat cafe, second chance romance, cooking, but the dialogue fell short for me.

The dialogue between Lindsay and Ben was so repetitive. Nothing about their past was resolved and suddenly they are living happily after in the epilogue. The flow just didn’t make a lot of sense for me. I think I needed more character development. Call me a crazy cat lady, but I also wished for more cat cuteness too!

Overall, my favorite part of this book was the cover! Sadly, I just can’t recommend this book.

I really, really wanted to love this one, but it just came up lacking for me. Lindsay and Brad's relationship waffled throughout and I kept waiting for more from them. I struggled with the second half and just couldn't relate enough to the characters.

This is a new to me author and I have to say I am looking forward to reading more by this author! I loved this book

There were parts of this novel that I enjoyed but overall it wasn't for me.

To start with what I enjoyed, I should probably mention that the cat cafe premise and the cover are what drew me in. It seemed like what I would be getting is a wholesome, almost hallmark novel. However, I found that the plot was lacking depth. Lindsay's background and reasoning for not wanting to give Brad a second chance didn't seem valid. Especially when her issues with what her dad did weren't discussed in enough detail to actually benefit the story. I didn't really enjoy Lindsay's character. She annoyed me. Though, this is sometimes what happens in the romance books I read, I usually always like the male main character. However, I did not feel a connection to Brad and didn't find him memorable.

Unfortunately, this was not the book for me.

This is the third book in this series. It was an interesting second-chance romance story. It was fun to read about the entire friend group on Whitman Street. Even though you can read this as a standalone I went back and read the first two books. I hope we will get a forth book about Evan and Pablo.

I dunno about this one. It was cute, but......the serious lack of communication was just so grating. I wanted to love it so hard. The end was certainly great, but man we had to work so hard to get there. I was about to throw my Kindle if I saw Phoebe's name again.

I liked the concept. I liked the character. I disliked the dialogue. The steam was good though!

Thanks sourcebooks.