“You’re a sunrise in human form… and I’m lucky I get to see you shine every single day.”

A Love Catastrophe by Helena Hunting gives readers a witty and warm novel that is an absolute delight to read. It’s minimal angst, hilarity, and sincerity creates a safe place for those of us who want to read something a little softer, but that doesn’t feel too outside of reality.

When self-proclaimed kitty whisperer, Kitty Hart, meets her newest client, Miles Thorn, it’s a comedy of errors. He’s the dog to her cat, and it seems like they’re destined to be mildly disgruntled acquaintances, at least until her cat sitting job is over with. But, the more they get to know each other, the more they realize that there might be a spark of something else simmering underneath the surface.

I always enjoy the way that Hunting incorporates humor into her narratives. In this story, I found myself laughing out loud multiple times, both at the wittiness of the writing and the hilarious physical comedy moments in the story. Hunting knows how to strike the balance between funny and over-the-top, and I’m here for it.

I also appreciated the softness of this book, and by that I mean that there’s no arbitrary conflict or third act breakup; rather, it’s an exploration of how the characters have handled some difficult parts of their pasts (and presents) and how they grow from it. Having personally experienced a parent-in-law who battled early-onset dementia, I was touched by the care that Hunting gives to Miles’s mother in this story. She always infuses so much hope into her books, even when navigating difficult topics. And the way that she gives Miles and his mom some poignant moments with each other brought tears to my eyes.

“I’m sorry I’m going to forget this. I wish my mind was still mine.”

Overall, I loved this book. It’s yet another great example of why Helena Hunting will always be a one-click author for me.

Thank you to the author, Forever, and NetGalley for generously providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A Love Catastrophe did not resonate with me. It felt excessively cheesy and heavily focused on feline dialogue. Even if I had read the synopsis, I still would have given it a chance, hoping that the cat content would diminish after the first chapter, but unfortunately, it persisted. The characters were eccentric and peculiar, but to an excessive degree.
I found it incredibly cringeworthy and uncomfortable. The romantic scenes felt forced and awkward, with an overwhelming number of cat-related puns. Although I understand that the protagonist runs a cat-training and watching business, the extent to which the cat puns were used was excessive. At one point, the protagonist even says "oh my catness," which I found to be over-the-top.
There are a couple of things I felt dated the book such as Harry Potter refrences- can we please stop with these already. Also the authors implied dislike of Gen Z was unnecessary and felt hateful.
I have come to the conclusion that I do like most of this authors older offerings and their Indie published books but their Trad Pub Books are just for me. There seems to be a disconnect between the two. I am not sure if the author is using different editors or if their voices is being muted by the publisher but this book falls short by miles!

3.5 🌟

A Love Catastrophe follows Kitty, a self proclaimed kitty whisperer after she agrees to take on a new client, Prince Francis. Prince Francis's owner has early onset dementia and her {handsome} son, Miles, is looking for someone to take care of Prince Francis.

Despite my indifference towards cats (I know, I know), I thought this was a cute romcom and there were literally times where I laughed out loud. It did fall a little short for me with the overdoing of cat jokes/references but I thought Kitty and Miles were both enjoyable characters.

Thanks, Netgalley for the ARC of this book.

What a super cute story! Both the hero and heroine are a bit quirky, which caused some very funny scenes throughout the book. It made them adorable together and both of them were very likable characters.

Miles is a bit of a nerd who has a cool job with an NHL team. He had few foot-to-mouth moments, but it made me like him more. When you hear about his family tragedy, you can't help but feel for everything he has gone through and how hard it would be with his mom's early dementia.

Kitty is that beautiful nerd who doesn't know she's beautiful. She's kind hearted and has her own family tragedy she is still dealing with. Her job as the kitty whisperer brought a lot of humor to the story, as well as her own non-filter moments. Miles and Kitty were a match made in heaven.

I really enjoyed reading this book and I hope the author has plans to write a book for Kitty's sister and best friend. I've always been a fan of quirky and this time you get that with both main characters. Fun read!

This book was not bad at all, I just don’t think I was the target audience. This would be a great book to get the cat lover in your life, but I wish I had realized how much would be about cats and social media before I started reading. I also wish the male lead had been a little more built out as I felt like all of his plot was about other people in his life and an allergic reaction. I do love this author and look forward to more from her!

I had high hopes for this book because I love this author. She is hilarious. Let me preface by saying I am a huge cat lover but there were way too many cat references in here that I had a really hard time reading it. It was too much for me. I wanted to love this book but it was definitely lack luster for me.

This cute rom com pairs a cat lover with a dog lover to hilarious results.

Kitty is The Kitty Whisperer, a one woman business for cat training and care. She agrees to care for Miles Thorn's mother's cat while she is in the hospital, and hijinks ensue when the pair meet for the first time.

Both Kitty and Miles have a deeper background story (death of a family member, dementia), which make the story have deeper tones in places. The depth is nicely balanced with hilarious scenes involving baby raccoons, cats in trees, and full on tackling.

The book also deals with social media and public perception, as Kitty's instagram page blows up and nasty comments start to trickle in.

Kitty is a very quirky main character with her cat car, Kitty shirts, and best friend Kat. Parts of that were a bit much for me, but it didn't become overly distracting.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. I give this one 3.5 rounded up to 4 stars!

What a great meet cute, furry love story! Miles in his awkward geeky way will worm his way into your heart, while Kitty, well she'll own it right from the start! 5 Prince Francis stars for this one, because let's face it, he steals the show!
Miles has a problem, his mom is in the hospital, he just started a new job and is headed out of town, and he needs someone to take care of his moms cat Prince Francis. When he finds Kitty's business, he seeks out her help. Prince Francis doesn't like him, he's making a mess of his moms house, but once Kitty comes in and meets him, he takes to her like she's her human!
Miles and Kitty's first interaction, will crack you up to say the least! But once they start spending time together, each baring their souls to the other, sparks will fly, he just needs to find a way around Prince Francis' attachment to Kitty first!
I laughed a lot through this one, this cat is your typical troublemaking cat, and Kitty, she just has a kind soul and once her and Miles connect, you get a front row seat to the magic that comes between them! Grab this one asap!

A Love Catastrophe
Helena Hunting
Pub Date: June 13, 2023 🗓️

A Love Catastrophe by Helena Hunting was so cute, funny, and heartwarming! The story focuses on Kitty, a well-known cat whisperer, and Miles, a data analyst for a local NHL team. The two meet when Miles hires Kitty to care for his moms cat, Prince Francis. Miles is NOT a cat lover, and the first meeting between the two does not go smoothly. Can a dog lover and a cat lover coexist? This was such a great opposites attract book! I thought this book was so cute and I loved how the author included loss and guilt as a commonality between both characters.

Read this book if you like:

🐱Opposites Attract
🐱Dual Point of View
🐱Life After Loss
🐱Funny Cat Puns

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite quotes:
“Sometimes we keep our pain to ourselves because it’s too hard to share.”

“Tragedy can tear people apart, inside and out, you just have to find a way to let it go so you can heal from it.”

Thank you to Helena Hunting, Forever Publishing, and NetGalley for providing me with a gifted copy of A Love Catastrophe.


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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an E-Arc copy of this novel. Snarky, sexy, and sweet this is a romance you must check out!

I am usually a huge Helena Hunting fan. She is one of my go-to authors for all things romance.
This book started out strong with great banters between the M/F leads. The unique characters and meet-cutes are one of the things I love about Hunting's book. Unfortunately, the middle parts of the book really dragged on for me, so the book felt longer than it should.
I would still recommend it but it's an outlier of a Helena Hunting book for me.

If you're looking for a cute, sweet and funny romantic comedy with some feline friends thrown in, then A Love Catastrophe is the book for you. This book tells the story of Kitty Hart, an internet-famous cat sitter known as the Kitty Whisperer, and Miles Thorn, a grumpy hockey nerd who needs someone to take care of his mom's cat while she is in the hospital.

The book is filled with hilarious and heartwarming moments as Kitty and Miles navigate their relationship, dealing with grief, family issues, social media pressure and falling in love. The chemistry between Kitty and Miles is fantastic, and their banter is both playful and steamy. The side characters, especially the cats, are also a delight to read about.

Helena Hunting's writing is as witty and humorous as ever, making this book an absolute page-turner. The story has substance and deals with some heavy themes, but it never loses its lightness and humor.

Overall, A Love Catastrophe is a feel-good romance that will make you laugh, cry and root for Kitty and Miles. Highly recommended for fans of romantic comedies, especially those who love cats.

This book was purrr-fection! I loved every single second. Kitty is such a hoot of a character and she had me dying so many times with her wit and personality; she was written so well that she truly feels like someone I know now. I have such a weak spot for Miles. He’s the embodiment of a man written by a woman and his story broke my heart so many times.
The writing in this book was phenomenal. There was some parts so hilarious that I was laughing out loud, other sentences so powerful it made me pause, and even parts that made me bawl my eyes out. Helena Hunting is a master with words and making her audience feel a wide-range of emotions while reading her books.
This was a very smooth and enjoyable read; there was no rush or third act break up. This book gave me all the heart-eyes and butterflies and will definitely be a hit. I’m incredibly lucky to have gotten to read this early.

I truly wanted to love this story badly, especially because I am such a cat lady, but this is not one of my favorite reads.

The premise is cute, with Kitty, our FMC, being a social media influencer with a business called the Kitty Whisperer and Miles, the MMC, is a client due to his mom's cat needing care. I thought the side characters were great, I loved the names of the animals (I mean a Sphinx cat named Prince Francis? YES), and I did think the characters were wonderful as well, but not with the storyline and how heavy this book is, which I was not expecting.

The book deals with heavy topics, such as early onset dementia, parent loss, and loss of a sibling. This is one of the main ways the main characters relate to one another and grow a deeper bond. But they talk about these issues repeatedly, and in depth, for many pages. As a result, I felt it really impacted their chemistry because it was if they were helping each other through their grief and they found someone they could relate to and decided to try a relationship. I just didn't buy their relationship and wasn't invested. And, as a romance, that is one of the main things I am looking for in this genre.

Additionally, I found some of the situations that the main characters found themselves in to be a bit over the top. Kitty is meant to be quirky and awkward, and that's how the author prefers to write her characters. However, there are so many situations where the "quirkiness" is a plot device. While I am fine with this if done sparingly, this is one of the only ways the author pushes the plot, and, as a result, it becomes repetitive. There are only so many awkward situations one can find themselves in before it becomes overdone.

I will say that all the things I found difficult for me could be positive for some. Those who are looking for more internal connections based on heavy communication in their romance would enjoy this book. Those that want heavier topics in their books would be another group. They could also really enjoy books with characters who are not perfect or who are not as socially aware, preferring a more realistic main character. I believe those are the people who would really find this book entertaining and enjoyable.

Overall, this was not the book for me, However, if you like quirky FMC and deeper romances, this is the book for you.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever Publishing for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

First things first, I might not be exactly the target audience. I feel like this one might be a 5 star read if you’re a cat person.
Me however…I’m not sure if I’ve ever related to a MMC so much.

Miles is a dog person, like me, but he’s had the care for his ailing mother’s weird hairless cat suddenly dumped into his lap. He enlists the services of Kitty, cat sitter and trainer. I didn’t even realize professional cat trainers were a thing?
Anyway, after one of the most painful meet uglies, she learns how much a cat person is *isn’t* and he finds out that she isn’t just a cat person, she’s a ✨😻 Cat Person 😻✨
Trust me, there is A Difference.

This one is a slightly slow burn, but definitely gets some heat. There’s good humor, even if it is heavy on the cat puns. There’s a reason I think this will be much bigger with people who love cats, but even as a self-avowed dog person I still found enough to keep entertained. I wouldn’t have minded a little more hockey content too though, there’s much more of Kitty’s job than there is about Miles’

There’s also some heavier content - the MMC has a parent suffering from dementia, also the family is still dealing with the loss of his brother when he was a child. The FMC is still heavily affected with the loss of her father years ago, and it has heavily impacted her family. Basically there is a hearty dose of survivors guilt all around, and I think some mental health rep in the form of therapy would have gone a long way.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever Pub for the ARC!

A purrfect love story! I loved this light hearted fun kitty cat romp! But it doesn’t totally ignore dog lovers. This is a cute, easy to read book thats just the thing to brighten your day. Add it to your tbr pile-you’ll be glad you did!

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

So I will preface this by saying that I am not a cat lover at all and I have an anaphylactic allergy to them haha. So I just will never understand cat people. BUT I have read a lot of Helena Huntings books and this story was different than the others. I liked how in this story the characters bonded through their grief and loss. That made the story a lot deeper than a cat whisper that made too many cat puns.
I really appreciated the writing around how people can push grief to the side and carry on through life even though it will always come up to the surface again. The part of the story with Miles’ mother in the home where Kitty suggests to bring items from home to make it familiar and the conversation that ensues between Miles and his mother made me tear up. So one one hand I didn’t enjoy all of the cat stuff but on the other it was a really sweet love story around people coming into your life when you need them to help you heal. So I will give it a 3.5 for too much cat plot but will round to a 4 for the deep issues the plot deals with and the love story that grows from it.

Kitty Hart is an internet influencer known as the Kitty Whisperer. Her cat sitting business is booming but her personal life is stalled. Miles is an analyst for the NHL and in need of a cat sitter for his mother's sphinx cat while she is in the hospital. He sees videos of the Kitty Whisperer and decides to hire her for her cat companion services. Can a cat lover and dog lover move from enemies to friends or something more?

Kitty is the definition of "quirky." Cats are her entire personality from clothes down to the cat themed puns and sayings like "oh my catness" and "holy meow." Her best friend is named Kat and owns a cat cafe. *Insert eyeroll.* These traits didn't endear me to her, instead I found them annoying. I liked Mile's character. I think he had an interesting job and I always love when hockey is included in romances. I thought the "meet cute" was so funny and set the book off to a great start. I wish we could have seen more of the secondary characters and hope they could be future books.

I tend to like my romance have not so many true to life heavy scenarios. Both main characters are dealing (or not dealing) with grief in their own ways. I was kind of caught off guard by how many heavy topics were addressed. I've read two other of Helena Hunting's books and they were both four star reads. Even though I'm a cat lover, I think this just may the case of the wrong book for this reader.

2.5 Stars rounded to 3

Thanks to NetGalley, Helena Hunting and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for this eARC. All opinions expressed are my own.
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I love this Author and I enjoyed this book! I enjoyed the cat puns that were included, definitely a highlight. Although some parts of the book fell flat for me, I still did enjoy reading this book.

📚✨Book Review✨📚

A Love Catastrophe
Author: Helena Hunting

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Note:
I received a copy of this book as an advanced reader but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

What I Liked:
🐈 Animal lovers rejoice because this book is packed full of them. From Prince Francis, the stubborn sphinx cat, to Wilfred the Great Dane, and even a baby raccoon, every animal in this book tempted me to run out and get a pet of my own!

🐈Many times we read books about hockey players so it was a delightful change to read one about an analyst. Yes, hockey players make an appearance and hopefully they’ll pop up again in future books, but it was a fun change.

🐈Miles and Kitty both have so much hurt in their past. This book will really resonate with anyone who needs help healing from similar things just like they do. It was heavier than I expected but that didn’t take away…only added to the story.

What I Didn’t Like:
🐈This book wasn’t as spicy as I would expect from Helena Hunting. I do think it was the right balance for this particular story though.

Final Thoughts:
🐈Helena Hunting is one of my favorite authors ever. She crafts beautiful stories that range from heartfelt to blistering infernos. Can’t wait to see what she does next. (Also hoping for another book featuring Kitty’s sister!)




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