Like the phoenix rising from the ashes Cat was able to find back her voice, and her music, after she finds her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend. We find Cat’s story on the second book of Faking it in the city.
Cat, a character we read about on book one has been on a path of self destruction after her boyfriend and band mate cheats on her with her best friend, also a band mate. She just wants to make músico and become famous, but life hasn’t dealt her a fair hand.
But slowly with the help of her friends and a very special male friend, also a band mate , she’s able to turn her life around.
I loved the way the book gives a specific voice to Cat, so much so that I was able to hear her in my head and feel her pain and her joy.
This was a very engrossing book that deals with heavy situations but with enough humor that makes it a very hard one to put down.

poor Cat. can someone give her a break please. its like all things that could hit a girl is. but Cat keeps coming, keeps fighting, keep striving forward. she is such a little superstar. trouble is she wants to be a superstar for real and that path aint easy.
in her way firstly is the very people who are meant to have her back. yes, her boyfriend and bestmates who are also her best mates are caught sleeping together...nice. so Cat does what anyone would do and gets out of their fast. and away from them she goes. hitting a new life running she moves in to a place with a great cast a gals who are all there for her in the best of ways. in a happy moments she is joined in New york by her band mate Jensen. theirs is a sweet and growing relationship which added that lovely element of romance to it. this is way more than that though. this is about growth and learning to love yourself first and foremost. which isnt easy when people keep aiming stuff at Cats heart. not least her mother. not least the couple she meets who turn her life on its head all over again.
i loved this book. it was so deeply cherishing. Cat is such a rich and thought out character. it was like i could see her right from her clothes to her inner soul. she is one strong cookie that is for sure.
this woman has to find her voice to write the hit that is her own life. and for that she will have to find herself to be that number one she craves.

The probability of the way things happen in this story remind me a bit of a Dicken’s novel. But that is ok. Romances are often that way, a bunch of chance meetings that lead to “the one” after all.

This is the second book in a series of stories about young women living together in a house that is being restored in New York City. In this book, we follow Cat, who is a musician who is good, but whose boyfriend cheated on her on national television, and she just wants to get on with her music.

Through a series of not trusting the people she should trust, and too much alcohol, she gets herself in a bad situation, where only her songs and singing can get her out.

I found Cat to be very naive and immature, but that is the issue with reading books with 20-somethings in it. I got so angry at her for not trusting herself, but that is often what happens when women are young, and the whole point of a story is to grow and learn, even if it takes them the whole book to do so.

I got a little exasperated with Cat, but other than that, it was a quick read, and had a good love interest, and I expect we will see her again in the later books in the series.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookspout for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out the 24th of June 2025.

An enjoyable book, would definitely recommend. Looking forward to reading more by this author, their writing style was easy to read.

This one is a mixed bag for me. I really appreciated what the plotline did exploring the double standards between men and women. I really did not like Cat but then I felt bad for not liking Cat because now am I part of the issue? A good one for book club discussions, I had started to guess it was part of a series as the other characters bobbed in and out but that didn’t matter at all to the understanding of the novel.