A Cat Café Christmas was a delightful read featuring a romance between a woman trying to save her cat rescue and the man helping her.

Veterinarian Kara Ingalls will need a miracle if she's going to keep the Meow and Furrever Cat Café open past the holidays. Helping cats find loving homes is a dream come true for Kara but now she may lose it all. Ben Reese isn't a cat person so after he finds an abandoned kitten, he brings it to the Meow and Furrever Cat Café. After meeting Kara, Ben offers to help come up with some marketing strategies to save the café. Kara knows she'd be a fool to turn down Ben's help, even if he isn't a cat person. But as Kara and Ben work together to save the café, their tentative friendship becomes so much more.

The premise of A Cat Café Christmas immediately caught my attention and I was excited to read a romance set at Christmas that's full of cats. The book fully delivers on the promise of adorable cats at Christmastime and I loved that. I was so happy as each cat found it's new home and I have to say Matilda's journey was my favorite out of all of the cats. As a bonus, at the start of each chapter there's a little cat illustration with a description of one of the rescue cats. I loved the addition of those and I looked forward to each new chapter to see another one.

The romance between Kara and Ben develops slowly as the two didn't get off on the right foot when they first met. After that a series of misunderstandings slowed things down even more before they eventually worked things out. At that time the two strike up a friendship which I thoroughly enjoyed that was full of great banter and cute moments. Because they both have trust issues after past relationships gone wrong, they're hesitant to get involved with each other which was understandable. I was happy with the progression of their romance and I liked how they worked out the issues that cropped up between them. The romance in this is not on the steamy side with the scenes instead playing out using vague descriptions. Personally I prefer my romances to be more on the explicit side but readers that prefer less steam should enjoy this one.

Overall A Cat Café Christmas was a fantastic book and I would highly recommend it if you're looking for a cute, holiday romance.

I honestly went into this with very low expectations. I mean I love cats, and cute romance novels, but they are usually just okay.

I was very surprised by the depth of the characters. I especially loved how the chapters had adoption ads for each cat in the cafe.

I thought it was a great read!

This was such a sweet and lighthearted second chance romance. I thought the chemistry between the two characters was great and realistic. I found the plot to be good as well! If you love cats and holiday romances, you will love this book!

4 ⭐️

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This was the cutest little Christmas themed rom-com centered in a cat rescue cafe 🥺 Literally a book after my own heart! I LOVED the cute little profiles of all the cats at the cafe before each chapter. Such a cute touch!

Kara has such a big heart and unfortunately someone took advantage of that. Ben was personally traumatized when his brother marries his fiancé. Kara needs advertising for her fledging cat cafe, but does not want the social media scrutiny. Ben, however, does so anyway and becomes enamored with this feisty sweetheart. This book really is such a sweet journey of a rom-com and was a nice warm cozy hug.

Special thanks to Forever (Grand Central Publishing), NetGalley, and Codi Gary for this eARC in exchange for my honest opinion!

This was so stinking cute! I was immediately grabbed and didn't want to put this one down. An absolutely PERFECT Christmas story!!

Rating 4.5

Oh my gosh, this book was super cute! I loved the two main characters and how they interacted with each other. The banter in the beginning made me smile and was really well written. This book definitely made me want to get a cat and get some coffee. Overall, I would definitely recommend this one and can't wait to read more from this author.

Thank you so much for the gifted copy.

3.5 Stars Rounded Up.

I received a reviewer copy of A Cat Cafe Christmas by Codi Gray from the publisher Forever from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What It’s About: Veterinarian and animal lover Kara Ingalls is struggling. She opened up the Meow and Furrever Cat Cafe with her best friends to help find adoptable cats homes along with serving up some delicious pastries. However, they have more cats than customers and they are gonna need a Christmas miracle to keep the cat cafe out of the red! When Kara's path crosses with Marketing star Ben Reese, things don't initially go well but as they are pushed together more than ever, he might just be the solution she's been looking for on multiple fronts.

What I Loved: I loved the idea of going to a cat cafe for the holidays! It was so cozy to get to know all of the cats and I loved that they were part of the story. As someone who does not have a cat, it felt like I could curl up at night and read a romance in bed while getting to know a cat was a substitute for having a cat. I really liked our two main characters and found their stories compelling and their chemistry a lot of fun!

What I didn’t like so much: I found myself a bit frustrated by some of the characters actions. A lot of the responses seemed to fail to consider other's trauma, but also some of the responses to certain circumstances seemed extreme. The third act frustrated me a lot and made me want to stop reading. Then the wrap up just felt a bit cheesy.

Who Should Read It: People who love cats. People who love cozy Christmas romances that don't entirely focus on Christmas.

Summary: A romance set at a cat cafe over the holidays.

This is an adorable Christmas romance book. Readers will fall in love with the small town and the cat cafe being run by the veterinarian main character. There are a ton of cats and cat lovers will really love this story because of it. At times I laughed out loud, and at other times I had tears welling in my eyes. A down on his luck reporter and a cafe owner team up and the results are swoonworthy.

Just with the title alone I knew I wanted to read this book. Cat. Café. Christmas. I am there.

It was perfect for the holiday season. Like a well-loved Hallmark movie. Perfectly sweet and a bit cheesy. Overall I really enjoyed this book.

I was pulled in by the cover and the setting. However, I did not end up finishing this one. I like some cozy mysteries but not all of them. I still recommend this one for those who love the genre.

Y'all ever see the title of a book and know it's meant for you?! That's what happened to me with A Cat Cafe Christmas, and I needed this one! If you're a cat lover, snatch this one up asap. I really enjoyed the plot line of converting Ben into a cat lover especially because I mayyy have done this with my husband (this is not an admission of guilt). Also, there's little drawings and descriptions of the cafe's adoptable cats at the beginning of each chapter, and I squealed at every one because it's so precious.

3.5⭐️

Cats and Christmas together? 😍 I work in veterinary medicine so of course I was very excited for A Cat Cafe Christmas. It was such a treat for me to experience a book that so closely depicts my everyday life (and accurately too!). The cat shenanigans and little kitty “dating profiles” were so cute! However, my favorite part of this book also happens to be why it fell flat for me. I felt as if the cats were the only thing I was attached to with this book. While I liked Kara and Ben, I feel like we only got to know them on the surface. They both have THE most giving hearts, but I didn’t get to know them more than that and I really wanted to. They got along so well as friends and I could feel the trust they built with each other, but there was virtually no chemistry between them. Even closed door romances like this one deserve some tension, magnetic pull, or sparks! All in all, I recommend this for cat-loving readers who enjoy light, small town romances where the underdog wins ❤️

Thank you to Forever, Grand Central Publishing, and Netgalley for the gifted book in exchange for my honest review.

I wanted to like this one more than I actually did. I really appreciated the small town setting and loved the cat cafe. The MMC was really sweet, helpful, and seemed like a decent dude, even if he was a bit too bro-y at the beginning but he grew on me. The FMC was absolutely infuriating. She constantly flew off the chain, belittled those folks closest to her for trying to help when she refused to listen, and acted like a petulant child. I had a lot of trouble tolerating her, and never actually liked her. I really liked how each chapter started with a dating ad-esque write up for the cats in the cafe. That was really clever. I just hated the whole Worthy story-line and thought this novel could've been a lot stronger if it didn't rely upon that.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for a honest review.

The purrrrfect holiday read! I waited to read this until Christmas break and I’m so glad I did. It’s so cozy, cute, and captivating.

I love cats, Christmas, and romance, so I was sold on this book the moment I saw it. I thought A Cat Cafe Christmas was a really cute romance novel, but definitely for PG audiences. It reminded me of a Hallmark movie; cheesy and addicting.

There was one part that killed me though. The main character is from Boston and early on in the book, he has a conversation around the word "pop", explaining that people in Boston refer to soda as pop. I was born & raised in Massachusettes and still live here - we do not call soda "pop".

A holiday romance centered around a cat cafe - what more could you ask for?

I really liked the two main characters Kara and Ben. I love Kara’s chaotic energy, seeing brooding Ben become a cat person and how they healed each other.

I absolutely adores all the kitty descriptions at the beginning of each chapter.

If you’re in the mood for a feel good holiday romance with the cutest kitties, I highly recommend this book.

This book was so precious! It was the sweetest mix of adorable cats, friendship, romance and second chances.

I really loved all the characters in this book, which is rare, and couldn’t get enough of the kitty content😍 I was really able to relate to Kara, so I connected with her character a ton, and Ben was just so sweet. I thought it was so fun that each chapter began with an introduction to a new cat and the end was one of my favorite things I’ve read recently🧡 The whole story was just so wholesome and I had the best time reading it.

This was a perfect read for the holidays, and it was a great way to ring in the new year since it ends on New Years Day!!

If you love cats, Christmas or romance books, I would recommend picking this one up!

Thank you to Net Galley and Codi Gary for the e-arc!

A holiday romance centered around a cat cafe, what is more cozy? Kara and Charity have such a supportive friendship. I really enjoyed reading about them and their quest to run a cat cafe. A new member to town, Ben, offers to assist the Cat Cafe in raising money for their organization. Ben and Kara are complete opposites and this is one of my favorite romance tropes! I loved that each chapter started with a description of the cats in the cafe ready for adoption. They had fun holiday names. Thank you to NetGalley and Forever for an advanced copy! All thoughts and opinions are my own!

Such a sweet contemporary romance with the cutest setting. I loved all the cats and every time one found it’s forever home my heart melted even more. Definitely recommend this book of you love romance and cats.

DNF at 17%. I don’t give star ratings for DNF, but NetGalley makes you select stars. I just couldn’t get into it, and I didn’t like how it was 3rd person POV.