3.5 ⭐ rounded to 4
this was a cute and cozy closed door romance with forced proximity, forbidden lovers, and fake dating
the characters were interesting, the angst was low, and the read was quick. this is a great palate cleanser book without major content warnings but having plenty of sweet moments

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for granting me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.

A perfect cat friendly read with lots of giggles and swooning moments. Fake dating is a favorite trope of mine and this book delivers a great story. Both MCs were dealing with personal and work related challenges and found themselves in love while fake dating.

Thanks to Forever Publishing for the ARC giveaway win! I used one of my Libro.fm credits to purchase the audiobook.

Finding Mr. Purrfect
By Codi Gary

Narrated by Henriette Zoutomou

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (0-5)
Narration: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧 (0-5) I need to look up what else she narrates.
Overall: 4/5
Steam: 🔥 (0-5) Kissing only and barely. It’s closed door in the sense that they say they are doing more than kissing.

What I’m Starry-Eyed Over:
🤩 The narrator is a great storyteller and excellent at dialogue. I especially love how she did the drama between Charity’s parents.
🤩 I enjoyed reading book 1 in the Meow and Furever Cat Café series called A Cat Café Christmas.
🤩 While book 1 will make you want to buy all the cats from their cute descriptions, caution with this book—it will make you crave all the cookies, pastries, and coffee drinks.
🤩 Cute illustrated couple cover.
🤩 Fun beginning with a holiday vacation including a New Year’s Eve resort party.
🤩 Cute plot with all the feels (except lust, see below): I laughed, oh no-ed, cried, smiled, longed, and loved.
🤩 Fake is one of my favorite tropes, and it works great here with two people who otherwise are unsure of feelings and commitment.
🤩 Families can be complicated and difficult. This book gives beautiful light to this fact.

What I’m Wishing/Dizzy About:
💫 It takes quite a long time to get to know Charity and Will and to feel a connection between them.
💫 Now, let’s talk kissing only/closed door books. I really like kissing scenes in books. Even in spicy reads, many of the first hug and kiss scenes are my favorite. In kissing only and closed door romance books, I want to be left melting from every touch, caress, hug, and kiss. I love a good foot rub or neck massage. In this book, it seems like we barely get to experience the kisses, like it’s even closed door on the kissing.

I received this book for free for an honest review from netgalley. Thank you for the opportunity

I love the first book of the series this one was even better.

I adore Codi Gary's writing and Find Mr Purrfect is another wonderful novel! She finds a fantastic balance between sweet and spicy, and need I remind you, she adds in cats??!!

First, thank you to the publisher for a chance to read an early copy. Second, sorry this isn't super timely. I enjoyed this read. It was a fun follow up and it was nice to read about favorite characters in a cat cafe setting.

I read Codi Gary’s first book and needed to get my hands on this one. I love the fake dating along with mix of humor and serious. Charity’s relationship with her dad hit home for me and made me love this book even more than the first.

This was a great book. I connected with the characters. I felt engrossed with the plot. I would read another book by this author.

This book was a bit long for me and kind drugged out. Very much YA not adult fiction. #whereisthesmut

This was a cute book, with cute cat play on words. Also had interesting family dynamics that helped build characters backgrounds and why the way they were.

This book was so cute! As a cat lover and a romantic this book was everything I wanted!! It was so soft, heartwarming, and just warm!

A sweet love story about people coming into love with the typical family baggage of people in their 30s, but working through it because their feeling motivate them to do so.
Bonus points for lots of cute cats and delicious food that made me want to snuggle with my own rescue kittens while eating a cupcake or two.
Off-page intimacy but on-page attraction, and lots of twists and turns to keep me reading.
Recommend!

I absolutely was over the moon to get this ARC because I loved the first book so much!! This book was even better than the first and I read this in one sitting. I was totally obsessed with Charity and Wills story!!! Chef's kiss!! Perfect!!
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I was really excited about this book. Unfortunately, the characters fell flat and weren't enough to capture my interest for the whole book.

I tried so hard with this book I dnf'd it to begin with and then decided to revisit, hoping that I had just not given it enough of a chance. I completed the book the second time around, but unfortunately, I just did not enjoy it. I didn't really feel the Chemistry Between the main characters, there were miscommunication elements that I found irritating, and honestly, I just felt very bored.

I’ll start by saying I don’t love cats but that didn’t stop me from reading this!

Finding Mr. Purrfect was a super cute fake-dating story about Charity and Will. They both are in Mexico for a wedding and Charity convinces Will to fake-date to keep her parents off her back.

Super cute story and lots of laughs.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC of this book.

I struggled to finish Finding Mr. Purrfect. There were a lot of chapters that, if I had been the editor, would have completely cut - they didn’t move the story forward or create character growth.

The story also started while the two main characters were on vacation in Mexico, which was never brought back up once they returned home. By the last quarter of the book, Charity is competing in a cooking competition.

There’s also fake dating, judgey parents, toxic family drama, kitties (and not enough of them!).

I my opinion, this would have been better had it stuck to one lane: is it a vacation romance or a culinary competition romcom? Fake dating was fine, but some of the family scenes were too much for me.

I considered DNF-ing this one, but that’s not really the person I am so I powered through, continually hoping it would get better.

Thank you to Forever Publishing and NetGalley for the digital review copy.

I loveeeee fake dating and of course I love cats. The cat café romances by Codi Gary are quite cheesy but very fun. They’re highly entertaining on audiobook! Would recommend!

Finding Mr Purrfect is a cute, enemies to friends to lovers, fake dating type rom com with a lot happening. It starts with a trip and then goes through job struggles, family issues including divorce and health concerns, some childhood trauma, and then also a reality show. It was so much happening at the same time and I do wish there might have been one less thing - either focus on the reality show or the normal family stuff but it was all rushed at the end to get through it all. I enjoyed the book though, it was a quick and easy read but just maybe too much happening.