IM SOLD!!! I love them so much!
Was actually funny and the tropes were to die for!! The twists on popular tropes such as opposites attract and second chance were very well thought out.
I really do wish this wasn't closed door but at the same time I am glad it is just for the sake of the cats so they did not have to witness it.
My cat sensed that I was cheating on him and decided to paw my kindle for most of the book but I think he was a fan of his brethren.
Was a solid quick holiday read just in time for the New Year!

This was such a cute little story with the cutest couple. I loved the concept and thoroughly enjoyed it. I do wish it had been a little more Christmas-y.

Welcome to my new favorite Christmas read! A Cat Café Christmas is everything I ever wanted in a Christmas book.

🎄Christmas season
☕️Peppermint mocha
😻Cats!
😂Humor/rom com
💘Second chances
💞Opposites attract
🫶Enemies to lovers
💝Closed door romance
😽All the cats!
🙀So many cute and adorable cats!

Also found in these pages are characters facing very realistic anxiety, fears and struggles. I love the perseverance and courage written into these characters and the way the author wove the feline friends so flawlessly into the storyline.

This book has so much heart! You absolutely must read it – and buy your own copy so you can re-read it year after year. It’s that good!

My only regret is that there is no cat café for me to visit nearby. Why?

Also give me the @hallmarkchannel movie version of this book immediately!

My thanks to @readforeverpub and @netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. And thank you to @amy_alwaysreading for gifting me my very own copy!

After getting off on the wrong foot, a marketing professional offers to help a struggling cat cafe owner save her business during the holiday season.

This has a cute Hallmark movie premise and we start off with a bit of enemies to lovers as our leads make bad first impressions. I didn't love the characters... I didn't mind that they were both dealing with conflicts from their pasts but they weren't very likeable overall. The cats were the highlight - I loved hearing about their different personalities or the mini adoption profiles that read more like dating profiles.

If you want a lighthearted read and are a cat lover, pick this up this holiday season.

I will say skip the audiobook and go for a physical copy -- the narrator did terrible accents that took me out of the story a bit.

christmas romance + cats + cute cafe SIGN ME UP. I have never been so excited to read a Christmas book and I spent the day after thanksgiving reading my first one of the season. The atmosphere of this book was just perfect and made me so excited for Christmas. The character development was incredible, I loved seeing how much kara and ben grew as characters. Although Ben and Kara didn't have perfect chemistry I they was still adorable together and I think it added another element to their growth and development.

A Cat Cafe Christmas is the perfect novel for the middle of the venn diagram of Christmas and cat lovers. Ben is a sweet man who has some baggage and Kira is a sweet woman with a lot of baggage as well, and together they can learn to love again. I loved the little twist at the end and the way everything is tied up nicely. Recommended.

This book is a super cute holiday romance. It is perfect for cat lovers as well! I thought the beginning was slow and dragged on, but the second half definitely grabbed my attention more.

Y’all, this book was so good!!! I know it might sound a little cheesy but it really wasn’t! It is one of the most heartwarming books I’ve ever read, with sweet cats getting adopted left and right. It’s about a veterinarian running a cat café with dreams of turning it into a low cost vet clinic, and a marketing guru, who have both been burned by past relationships. She helps him navigate first time pet ownership, he helps her fundraise, and they figure out if they can believe in love again. It was such a cozy sweet book. Highly recommend for a holiday read!

A fun enemies to lovers story with the right amount of coffee, cats, and drama. Made for a great cozy weekend read

This is the second Christmas book I’ve read this year that revolves around a pet rescue at the holidays and I think this is a new favourite theme for me 😍

My absolutely favourite feature of this book was that each chapter started with a mini bio of one of the cats that are available for adoption. It was such a cute and fun touch, I looked forward to them every time I started a new chapter! Also, Chaos the cat was my favourite character, no contest 🐱

This book gave me Hallmark movie vibes in a book which seems to be the theme of this holiday reading season. I absolutely loved seeing both Ben and Kara’s growth throughout the book. They both began the book very much dealing with the fallout of failed relationships and watching them learn how to open up was great.

I will definitely be picking up Codi Gary’s other Christmas books (written as Codi Hall) because I really enjoyed her writing style and the way she sets the tone for a Christmas novel 🎄

Thank you to Netgalley, Forever, and Codi Gary for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have been in full swing Christmas since just before Halloween as we had early Christmas with my sister from out of town.

So this was right up my alley.

I was in the mood for a lighthearted, Christmas read and this filled that! Also, my kids love the cat cafe here 😂

For those Christmas vibes, this is one to add to the list.

Who else is ready for holiday reads? I’m actually not the biggest fan of holiday books. I usually read a couple before I’m over the Hallmark cheesiness and move on to something with a sinister serial killer! ⁣
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⁣A Cat Cafe Christmas is about as cheesy as it comes. It’s an opposites attract romance with adorable kitties, complicated families, and a financially struggling charity! ⁣
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⁣It was cute and cheerful. The cats were great. The characters were lovely… but I needed more spice! It was a perfect fine read, but I wasn’t wow-ed! ⁣
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⁣All in all, three in a half cute stars! Read this if you love cats! ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨⁣
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⁣Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of A Cat Cafe Christmas!

This will go on my keeper shelf for future holiday rereads. I adored Kara and Ben. The fact that they weren’t perfect made them all the more relatable and wonderful. Chaos does steal the show. The perfect read while cuddling up with a furbaby of your own.
4.5 stars

Thank you for my copy for my review.

This was a absolutely sweet and lighthearted story of second chances and opposites attract. I do recommend this book.

DNF'd at 25 percent. (Review from October 1st; I didn't realize that I hadn't shared my review here earlier. My bad)

I really wanted to like A Cat Cafe Christmas. The concept of the story was really adorable, so I excited to read it! And that cover just screamed my name, so I knew I had to read it ASAP. But unfortunately, both the male and female leads irked the hell out of me. I wanted to keep reading the book just to know how it ends, but by 25 percent, I was just done. :( AAAAHHH. Kara was one of the most unlikable characters I have ever read about. And Ben's misogynistic attitude made me really uncomfortable multiple times, too. A big no for me.

Cats! Cafe! Christmas!

I love all three of these things so much, this book was so fun to read! Kara and Ben are great together and I loved all the ideas Ben came up with to help save the cafe. 25 days of Catmas were awesome and I would totally participate if that was real!

This book was super cute and I really enjoyed it. The ex and his scheme seemed a little far fetched at time, but overall I'd still recommend this. Chaos was also hilarious and I needed more of him.

Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced reader copy. This was a charming Christmas romance. I am not a cat person so I definitely was able to put myself in the shoes of the Ben. I really loved how involved the backstory was each of the characters. It really made you want to root for them. It was definitely a cute romance novel without any smut. Sure to get you in the holiday spirit.

Kara Ingalls shows up for work and sees the line outside her café. Part of her is happy that there are so many people waiting to get in the door. A very small part. Most of her is irritated and anxious to see the crowd. She knows that they will be a person down, so she’ll be the one standing at the counter helping them. And she likes to help people. She wants people to come to her café. She just doesn’t want them all to show up at the same time and expect her to be friendly and perky.

Where did all these people come from?

Ben Reese is nearby, grinning at their successful campaign for the cat café. He is part of a team trying to build up local small businesses, and after their first article on the café, there is a line of people waiting outside. And a grumpy woman who looks confused. He tries to talk to her and is taken aback by her attitude. Most small businesses would be thrilled to find a line of people waiting for them to open. But this woman, Kara, is not happy.

A short conversation with her leaves Ben flat. He understands why she is surprised by the customers waiting on her café, but he thought she could be grateful for his work. After a client meeting, he heads home and does some more renovation on his house. But when he hears a soft mewing and finds a tiny kitten who had gotten into the ducts, he doesn’t know where to turn except the irritated Kara and her cat cafe.

Kara wasn’t very happy to see Ben again, especially after he’d told her just that morning that he wasn’t an animal person. As a veterinarian, she can’t understand that. She opened the cat café especially to help the casts that need someone in their corner to help advocate for them. And now this guy is here to dump the kitten he’d found, and during the holiday season, when a lot of their foster families are traveling and can’t take on another kitten. She checks out the kitten to make sure he’s okay and talks Ben into taking him back home until she can find a placement for him, just a day or so. He agrees, reluctantly, and gets ready to head back home when he finds out that his friend had been flirting with Kara’s partner in the café, Charity, and gets them invited to her Friendsgiving.

Between Ben keeping the kitten at his place, Friendsgiving, and his company working on marketing plans for local small businesses, he can’t seem to stay away from Kara. And while he finds her smart, funny, and attractive, he is reluctant to give another relationship a shot. After what happened with his last girlfriend, now his brother’s fiancée, Ben isn’t ready to take another chance.

Kara is caught between her past and her future. She wants the café to be a success. In fact, she wants to add a clinic to it, to offer even more care for the cats she loves. But she can’t be involved in any public way. After her ex-husband used her work laptop to steal money and top donor identities from the nonprofit she worked at, she had to disappear from social media. He repaid a lot of money and went to jail, but a lot of people still believed she was involved in his crimes. She can’t let the café go down because of what he did to her. And she is having trouble opening herself back up to a new relationship.

But when she sees Ben smiling at that kitten, she knows that he is an animal lover underneath it all. But is that enough to build a relationship on? A future? All she knows for now is that she needs $6000 to keep the café open into the new year, and $40,000 if she wants to make her dream of the clinic come true. It’s going to take something big to raise that money. It will take a brand new marketing plan, with a new website and lots of social media interaction. Their 25 Days of Catmas campaign is a start, but will it be enough? Can it save the cat café, heal two broken hearts, and help tame a kitten named Chaos?

A Cat Café Christmas is a new holiday themed rom com from Codi Gary, and it’s filled with adorableness. Each chapter starts with a short blurb about a cat that’s up for adoption, and the adventures of the kitten Chaos is just precious (although not everyone agrees, like the chihuahua of the foster mom who tried to keep the kitten for a bit). These characters are smart, the banter is fun, and the kissing adds some spice. Kara and Ben are honest with each other about their past relationships and handle their mutual attraction with maturity and respect, which is a really lovely twist.

I enjoyed A Cat Café Christmas and it’s sweetness and catness. Fans of television holiday movies will find a lot to like in this one, as will romantic comedy readers and cat lovers. It’s a fun escape from the holiday craziness, or a reminder of the magic of the holidays if they feel too far away. And if you find that there is a kitten in your life that terrorizes your dog or uses your shoes as a litter box, then you can empathize with what happens to the characters in A Cat Café Christmas when Chaos is unleashed.

Egalleys for A Cat Café Christmas were provided by Forever through NetGalley, with many thanks.

"Love is about fear. You're scared to admit it. Terrified to lose it. And afraid you'll never find it again." Codi Gary | A Cat Café Christmas

I laughed. I cried. I loved this book! 🐈❤️🐈‍⬛

This is a story about veterinarian, Dr. Kara Ingalls and her best friend who together own and operate a struggling cat rescue café called Meow and Furever. With the hopes of growing their business into something much bigger, they are in need of a Catmas miracle to make ends meet. Good thing marketing man Ben Reese has recently moved to town. Both Kara and Ben have their traumas to work through and together with time heal from them.

This opposites attract, second chances, CATastic romance novel will get you in the mood for the holidays, that are right around the corner. Just make sure to have your furry friend snuggled up close!

Goodreads: 3.82 ⭐️
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

On a side note- I loved that at the beginning of every chapter there was personalized cat profile card that belonged to a cat at the rescue. Not only was my heart with the people in the story but my heart strings were pulled with every adoption the café had 💕

"Cats are what? Awesome? Empathic? Cuddle bugs? Entertaining?" Codi Gary| A Cat Café Christmas

Thank you to the Author Codi Gary and NetGalley for this Ebook give away.

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