3.75 stars

This was a fun, fairly fluffy holiday romcom featuring cats and small businesses but also anxiety, betrayal, and angst. The setting and story premise were fun, and I enjoyed reading about the characters and their small-town adventures. It was sweet.

Love Christmas, romance, and cats, you will love this book. Kind of predictable, but it got the job done.

This was such 🐾 pawsitively🐾 fun and sweet read. I loved that the plot centered on the Cat Cafe, cat adoption, responsible pet ownership and feline veterinary care. It tied in a lot that is going on in the veterinary community with burnout, shelter statistics and the need for more resources which was great to see in a rom-com! As a cat lover I may be biased - but I absolutely loved the adoptable cat descriptions, drawings and adoption stories that were tied into the book! Even though this book takes place around Christmastime - it can be enjoyed all year round! 4/5⭐️😻

Thank you to NetGalley and
Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for the complementary copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book was the perfect mix of all my favorite things. While the story dragged at times, I overall enjoyed this read, especially the adoption profiles for the cats at the beginning of each chapter!

This book was cutesy and cozy. I'm not gonna lie, the main appeal to me was the fact that it was a cat cafe. The story was cute, but I almost wish there was more to it???? It didn't give me those stomach butterflies like I usually want to have in a Christmas themed romance, but this one was cute.

An adorable hate to love Christmas book set in a cat café, any cat lovers will enjoy it a great deal.

The main character is bringing her romantic trauma along with her and ha to learn to overcome it.

I'm not entirely clear why she liked her ex so much and why she's still so hung up on him, but that's a romance novel for you.

The resolution happened very quickly, it felt a little rushed.

Warning to car lovers, if you don't already own a cat, the adoption descriptions at the beginning of each chapter might send you immediately to your local shelter.

I absolutely read this before the holidays and then just added it to the large stacks of books I have read and not reviewed…but I refuse to post this when January is over so HERE WE GO.

This was a cute rom-com and a quick read. I adored all of the cats and the fact that each chapter opened with a fun bio of each cat available for adoption. It reminded me of some fun Instagram and TikTok animal shelter accounts. While the story was sweet, I wasn't blown away. I liked both of the characters, and wanted good things for them, but I felt like the timeline for the romance was pretty quick. Honestly, I think my favorite part was how much of a sucker Ben ended up being over the kitten Kara kind of forced him to foster. However, like I said, this is a cute story!

Read if you're missing some holiday romance! :)

Kara Ingalls opened a cat cafe called the Meow and Furrever Cat Cafe. The idea behind it is that customers will adopt the cats from the cafe and give them loving homes. But with more cats than customers her business is quickly going south. Marketing expert Ben Reese comes up with a plan to turn the business around by Christmas.
This was a sweet Christmas themed romance, and played out like a Hallmark channel movie. I liked how the cats were all named after movie characters. The ending was sweet and overall k enjoyed this book. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy.

Codi Gray is Codi Hall but clean. This was the perfect opposites attract but add in coffees, Christmas, and cats. I usually avoid anything that doesn't have any spice; I would read anything Codi writes, even if it were the bible and I'm Jewish. I knew going in there was no spice; honestly, the story didn't need it, and I still enjoyed the clean, wholesome romance. The cat cafe is a dream of mine, and reading about it made me want one even more. Also, the book boyfriend in this one. Swoon. The characters can be awkward sometimes, but it gives the story the tension it needs without the smut, aka closed door. The Christmas element is a back piece that can be read all year long. I love the cover and will be suggesting this to all my Christmas in July people. I will now be looking for more books with cats and cafes as this was the highlight of the book for me. Give me coffee and cats ANYDAY

This was a cozy Christmas read that has all my favorite things, Romance, cats, coffee, and Christmas. This grumpy sunshine book was everything I needed to get into the Christmas spirit

Being an animal lover I knew this was going to be a great read. Animals and Christmas are two of my favorite things so I was definitely excited to read this.
It had great characters, gave me all the holiday feels and wrapped up nicely at the end. Definitely worth reading.

I have to say the little blurbs at the beginning of each chapter about the Café Cats were most definitely my favourite part. An unlikely pair, but in the end, a heart warming ending. Slightly predictable, but the motion of getting to the ending what truly what made this story a worthwhile read.

Codi Gary quickly became one of my favorite seasonal authors. Christmas is encompassed perfectly with well rounded characters I can not help but fall for. This story was absolutely lovely, highly recommend.

For not being a cat person, I enjoy this a surprising amount. Definitely felt like it delivered on the the warm and fuzzy holiday vibes that I signed up for!

Being an animal lover, I enjoyed A Cat Cafe Christmas - especially the cat biographies at the beginning of each chapter!

It was a wonderful holiday read that I would recommend!

Thank you to Forever and NetGalley.

I liked this book but didn't love it. It was cute and cozy but overall I just didn't connect with the plot, meaning it didn't really capture my attention. It may have just been a case of wrong book, wrong time because I did love Nick and Noel's Christmas Playlist by the same author. It was a quick, easy read but not overly Christmas-y.

i absolutely adored this novel! ben and kara went for strangers-to-friends-to-lovers in a pacing that didn’t feel the least bit rushed. even though most of the novel takes place throughout december, it also spans a few weeks of november and into the new year. all of that to say that i could read this book any time of year! i’m a dog-lover but i could relate to kara’s testament to how “the pet chooses you” because they certainly make our lives happier and full of more joy. i love how all it took for ben and kara to bond over was a lil kitten and how over time, she was slowly able to turn him into a cat-lover! all i wanted to do while reading this novel was snuggle up with a blanket next to my fur-baby!

i thought the plot did a great job of juggling other aspects of kara and ben’s lives. oftentimes i struggle when novels highlights extra from one of the MC’s backgrounds while leaving the other in the shadow or when it simply feels like there’s too much going on. this wasn’t the case in “a cat cafe for christmas” and i felt like everything tied in very nicely. i especially loved the storyline of how meow and furever went from having few customers to being jam packed with locals! on a final (side)note, i loved schwartz and charity … together, their banter and laughter was contagious! i couldn’t help thinking how exciting it would be if the two of them had a spin-off sometime in the future!

I've never read a Codi Gary romance I didn't love, and A Cat Café Christmas is definitely no exception.

Closed door romances usually aren't my thing, but Gary does such a wonderful job at developing the characters and fostering those relationships that I find myself not caring that the romance is sweet and not the least bit explicit.

Ben and Kara were adorable in the way they went from bickering to flirting; I thought both characters were realistic and well written. They both had excellent reasons for their actions, but I loved that they were both mature enough to eventually grow beyond their past and live for the future.

He does marketing. She's weary of attention after being burned in the past. He doesn't like cats. She owns a cat café and rescue. They are 1000% opposites, which made their growing romance all the cuter. Watching them grow together - for the sake of the other - couldn't have played out any better.

Full confession: I am very much a cat person. I actually have no idea how Kara a) kept talking to Ben after he said he wasn't a cat person, and b) didn't just end up keeping all the cats herself when the Meow and Furever Cat Café was in trouble. That would've been a tempting solution if that was me.

This was an adorable holiday romance, and I highly recommend this book (and any Codi Gary books) to anyone looking for more sweet than spice in their opposites attract romance.

Christmas, coffee and cats? Sign me up. I absolutely adored this story and thoroughly enjoyed the cute vibes! Perfect for the Christmas season!

Veterinarian Kara Ingalls, alongside her best friend Charity, opened up the Meow and Furrever Cat Café to help cats find their forever home while Charity takes over the baking and coffee aspect. As the holidays approach, they are almost at capacity with not enough cats being adopted and bills piling up. Cue Ben Reese who works for a marketing company and happens to come across the small café and one of its infatuating owners. Initially butting heads, Kata and Ben put aside their differences while coming together to find a way to save the café and find homes for the cats. Both are reeling from recent disasters of their previous relationships but as hard as they try, they cant deny the growing attraction between them.

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This was a cute little holiday romance read perfect for all the cat lovers out there 🐱 Each chapter began with a small description of each of the cats living at the café which I loved reading their name and cute little bios. I had a love/hate relationship with our female MC Kara, the story tries to spin as enemies to lovers but Kara’s initial reason for not liking seemed a little harsh when all he was trying to do was help out. Also their attraction was immediate so It was hard to really grasp the enemies to lovers part. Ben was an absolute gem of a human being and I love how patient he was with Kara who obviously still has walls built up given the fiasco with her ex. I wish Kara and her ex Worthy’s confrontation had a little more detail, there was so much built up and then it sort of just fizzled out. It was a little hard for me to really connect to the romance between the two MC’s on this one but I di enjoy the dual POV and allllll the cat love, especially little chaos 😈 Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC of this novel in exchange for my honest opinion. This title is now available to purchase!