Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero is a wonderful read. The book reminds us that everyone can make a difference and how one person can change one person’s perspective. The book is written in many different voices including a feral cat.

Tanya Guerrero imagined a world of a feral cat and the people that interact and help care for the cat. The cat (named Cat) is a black cat who has lived on the street for many years. He looks forward to the rainbow lady’s daily visit with food and water. Nuria (the Rainbow Lady) belongs to the Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who takes care of the neighborhood’s stray cats. On top of Nuria, Omar the mailman also speaks with Cat and brings him treats. Then there is Bong, the Bodega owner who is grieving his wife’s death, who gives treats to Cat. Collin owns the brownstone where Cat hides. Collin eventually makes a house for Cat to hide in and helps take care of Cat.

However, around the story of Cat are how the people who help Cat start to form friendships. That is the real story, the forming of relationships that change each of the lives of Cat’s helpers. Each will need to reach out to the other, but Cat seems to give them strength to do that.

Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero makes me feel warm and fuzzy. It makes me feel stronger about how people can connect, even when they seem to be so different. Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero is a great read.

Cat is the name of a stray cat in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The story is told from several POVs. There is Nuria (a barista who feeds strays), Bong (bodega owner who is grieving his wife), Omar (mailman), Lily (young women looking for her half sister), Collin (author with writer's block) and Cat who gets to share funny thoughts and perceptions. These are all strangers that connect because of Cat. Cat follows the mailman, meeting others on the way. These are all kind people looking to help others but who are also dealing with grief, insecurities and other issues. And of course it comes together in a satisfying way. The writing is straightforward and I wasn’t surprised the author has written Middle Grade novels previously. This is an enjoyable, wholesome, feel good story. (3.5 Stars)

Five strangers. One cat. Brought together by love and heartache.

I absolutely adored this book. It made me laugh and cry and left my heart feeling so, so full. This beautifully woven story follows five strangers—Núria, Collin, Bong, Omar, and Lily—whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined through a stray black cat named Cat. Throughout one fateful summer, chance encounters turn into deep connections, proving that love, family, and friendship can come from the most unexpected places.

I found myself completely invested in each character’s journey. I learned how these five strangers come together in a way they never expected, learning that sometimes, the smallest creatures can have the biggest impact on our lives.

While I wish there had been an epilogue or just a little more to the ending, I still loved that it wrapped up in a hopefully, beautiful way. This story had the same feel as movies like Valentine’s Day or New Year’s Eve, and I could definitely see it being adapted into a movie! 🐈‍⬛

This book was heartwarming, charming, and an absolute joy to read. Cat’s People comes out this Tuesday if you like books like this!

And finally - thank you so much to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and Delacorte Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

The perfect book for cat lovers! Through multiple POV, you follow the lives of 6 people (Rainbow Lady, Cheery Mailman, Sad Bodega Man, Awkward Neighbor Guy, and Bright Pink Person) and a stray cat. It was such a sweet little slice of life novel, low stakes, filled with love and friendship. The chapters are very short, and each voice is unique, so you never get confused while switching POV.

This book completely stole my heart🥹!!

The way a single cat managed to bring people together was nothing short of magical & I was fully invested in every beautifully interconnected moment. As a proud cat mom, one scene hit me so hard that I actually teared up because it was just so special 😭. If you love stories that tug at your heartstrings (especially if you’re a fellow cat lover), this one is an absolute must-read!💖

Thank you for the e-arc @randomhouse & @netgalley!

Heartwarming, charming, and full of feline magic—Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero is the perfect feel-good read!

Set in Brooklyn, this novel follows Núria, a fiercely independent barista and member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group that cares for the neighborhood’s stray cats. But when she starts finding mysterious Post-It notes near her favorite cat, Cat, she’s thrown into a mystery. Could they be from Collin, the reclusive bestselling author? Lily, a teen searching for family? Omar, the neighborhood mailman in crisis? Or Bong, the grieving bodega owner? As these five strangers come together to care for Cat, they discover that fate—and feline intervention—has a funny way of bringing people together.

If you love found family stories, slow-burn romance, and books that make you smile (and maybe shed a tear!), this one’s for you. The way Tanya Guerrero weaves these characters’ lives together is simply beautiful. And Cat? An absolute scene-stealer!

A HUGE thank you to @randomhouse and @netgalley for the advance copy—I adored this book from start to finish!

Give a book about cat people, to the point that the cat has his own POV in the book. This book was so much fun to read. Given the other characters and their stories which were all so different but somehow they all connect because of this one stray cat, this book was just awesome. Cat lovers UNITE!!!!! Come get this book lol.

This was a cute cozy story about a cat and all the connections surrounding its life.

I’m a sucker for an interweaving story of different people lives and different things that connect them so this was right up my alley.

It was well done and easy to follow. Some storylines interested me more than others but it was fun.

Thanks to netgalley and random house for an eARC.

This is such a cute and heartwarming book about a community coming together to take care of a stray cat named Cat. It is a simplified story that captured my heart through several POVs and had me tearing up. Cats are dear to my heart. Growing up we had cats and cared for neighborhood strays. My heart feels sadness for all the ones that do not have compassionate families to love.
We do not have a cat now after the last one disappeared, but I miss the sweet purrs, sassy temperament and leg rubs for attention and approval.
Five strangers come together in their everyday lives in Brooklyn, NY due to a cat's needs and with his own personality and POV he joins the group, and has a name for each character.
Nuria, a barista and dubbed the "crazy cat lady" brings Cat food daily, but to him she is "Rainbow Lady"; Collin, an author and hermit leaves love notes to attract Nuria after visiting her coffee shop, but to Cat he is known as "awkward neighbor guy" bordering his alley; Bong, who has lost his wife that used to feed him, is known to him as "Sad Bodega man"; Omar, the mailman, known as "cheery mailman"; Lily, Nuria's sister, is known as "bright pink person".
This is a sweet, comforting story with emotion and warmth. Those of you who love cats will adore this one. Just maybe the ones who are not cat lovers will appreciate the author's creativity and find it inspiring to take care of a stray.
Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine | Delacorte Press for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Cats People is story about perfectly imperfect people and how a wonderful cat brings them all together. This was an incredibly sweet, funny, and charming story centered around a cat. If you’re a cat person I think you’ll enjoy this story.

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

Between 3 and 4 stars.

This was a fine book, but if I had to compare it a heartbeat monitor, the plot is mostly flat with maybe two or three small peaks. It’s low stakes, mostly comforting, but also a bit uneventful.

In New York City, Cat (known by many names depending on who’s referring to him) is a stray black cat who spends his days looking for food and observing the people who live or work around his territory. Núria is a thirty-something barista who cares for stray cats and whose mother wants her to get a husband or a better handle on her life. Omar is the cheery mailman who feels unfulfilled by his job but not really sure what he wants to do. Collin is a bestselling author suffering from writer’s block and social anxiety but is crushing on Núria. Bong is a local bodega owner grieving the recent death of his wife. And Lily is a girl from Georgia who’s come to the city looking for her half-sister who doesn’t know she exists. With Cat bringing them together, connections (some complicated) start to form between this group of people.

So I guess it’s an ensemble cast and every person has a problem they have to get through. It is reminiscent of the recently translated comfort reads from Japan and Korea, with cats, but without any speculative elements. Maybe this book wasn’t quite for me. The characters were all normal people with normal, relatable problems, and nothing that dramatic ever happened, except for one attempted SA that felt very out of place in this otherwise comforting book. I feel like they could have thought of something else to replace this incident if they tried, and it really took away from the warm, gentle vibes of this book.

The writing was fine, and it might just be me, but I could kind of tell that this writer wrote mostly for children before this book; there was something about it that felt like it tried to make sure things were explained clearly, without letting readers make their own conclusion or giving as much introspection as I would have liked. The romance had vibes of an early 2000s romcom, and I really do think this book’s best audience are cat-loving millennials who have lived in the big city.

The chapters from Cat’s pov were maybe the highlight, a bit reminiscent of Remarkably Bright Creatures, but I don’t think it quite balanced making Cat realistically a cat while making sure the human audience understands what he’s talking about and his emotions. It just felt weird reading how Cat swallowed a lump in his throat (do cats do that?) or is aware what a thigh or mailman or a potential assault is, but then also acted like a cat.

The chapters were short and the writing was very readable, and I think the connections between the people and how Cat brought them together was well done. But it is mostly low stakes and pretty flat in terms of plot, so I think it might not be for everyone. I really do think cat-loving millennials would like this.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!

Even though I am decidedly not a cat person, this was a cute book featuring a cat very heavily. The cat is even one of the character's telling the story. This was a creative way to intertwine people's stories and that made it enjoyable.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for advanced copy, and I give my review freely

This follows the life of a stray black cat in New York and the lives he impacts.

There are six different POVs which surprised me. I was expecting this book to be strictly from the POV of the cat, I don’t know why, but I did. And it turned into a sweet story.

As a huge cat lover, I of course loved this book. The cat’s reaction to people and distrust is understandable after what Cat had gone through in the past. The Cat had street smarts and even kind of “spoke” like a human 😂

I loved how a CAT brought people together. I don’t think cats get enough attention. They’re such amazing animals and I love that a cat brought these people together, a bunch of random people who became friends, found family and even found love and romance. It was sweet and even had realistic issues between the humans that could be relatable.

It would have been neat if this was similar to The Art of Racing in the Rain that follows the POV of a dog, rather than have human POVs, but that’s just made this a more unique story.

If you’re a cat lover, then read this one!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I love a found family, and this one was a super cute story! I’m notoriously not a “cat person,” but this story was super sweet. I loved how the people come together, though there are some elements lacking in some of them. There are 2 main-ish characters that I love the most, but don’t want to spoil anything. All together, it was a perfectly lovely story and an easy read

Cute story of a cat, who doesn’t love cats that brings 5 people together. It’s a romcom but it’s more towards the audience of young adults so I got bored and slipped through some chapters. But the ending was good!

Cat´s people. By Tanya Guerrero.
4.5 stars round to 5.
As a cat lover, obviously I´ve picked this book by its cover and it was a very pleasant surprise. The story is told in third person but with a multiple POV and this made the writing very friendly and unique, kind of simple but in a very beautiful way
There are five charming and very likeable characters:
Nuria, (The Rainbow Lady).
Collin, (The Awkward Neighbor Guy).
Omar (The Cheery Mailman).
Bong (The Sad Bodega Man).
Lily (The Bright Pink Person)
Each of them have an uncanny and bittersweet story to tell. I had too much empathy for all of them. And of course…there´s Cat.
Cat has its own POV and the most eloquent way to tell the story. I loved the way Cat intertwined the lives of all those beautiful characters. I wanted to adopt Cat the whole time while I was reading this book. What a beautiful soul.
This was such a heartwarming, feel-good story!
Thank you NetGalley, thank you Delacorte Press Penguin Random Hause Publishin Group for this ARC.
And many thanks to the autor Tanya Guerrero for this unique story.

I have never been much of a cat person, but this book almost made me want to go out and rescue one. I will have to wait to go visit my daughter's cat(who basically ignores me until she meows for food at her eating place).
This is Guerrero's first adult book, and it is quite wonderful. Told from the point of view of a black street cat, it is heartwarming as we see 5 lonely people brought together by this cat.
The setting is a neighborhood in Brooklyn and is anchored by a Bodega and a local coffee shop where the characters unknowingly all visit and interact.
Collin, whose first book was a bestseller, his second a flop, and now he has writers block. He is one of the most adorable shy characters I have ever read, and Cat calls him Awkward Neighbor Guy.
Collin has a crush on Nuria, a cat rescue lady who feeds Cat every day as Collin watches from his window. Nuria, a barista and proud of it, is called Rainbow Lady because of her colorful clothes.
There are several other wonderful characters who interact with cat on a daily basis, Cheery Mailman, Omar who is empathetic and helps others, though he himself is at a crossroads, Bong, the widower bodega owner who is still mourning his wife, and Lily, Bright Pink Person, who has a secret.
As these people begin to interact, they slowly become a family.
This book is not only a must-read for cat lovers, but for all readers who want a book to make them feel good, a great need in today's world.
The author herself is a cat rescue person, and her love of cats shines through this book.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the EARC. This is my honest review, and I hope many people read this book.

I loved the way strangers got together to tend to Cat, a black stray, when he suddenly became ill. In fact, Cat may have orchestrated the way in which some of the characters were brought together. But in the end, the grieving widower, the cheerful mail carrier, the barista, the writer, and the young woman searching for her half-sister all become friends, united in their care for this beloved creature.

4.5 stars rounded up

This is such a wholesome, cozy book. The book alternates between 5 characters and they are all brought together by a black stray named Cat. I really enjoyed the chapters from Cat’s POV.

I definitely recommend this book for all cat lovers and anyone who likes a feel good story.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book!

Do you ever wonder if cat's can truly understand us? Do you feel like cat's choose us rather than the other way around? Cat's People is a wonderful story about a black stray cat who earns the love and affection of all of those he encounters. Guerrero does a wonderful job of balancing multiple viewpoints, including the thoughts of a quirky feline companion throughout the course of the novel. While initially confusing trying to keep each character straight, their slow interactions to one another revealed a small community in the big streets of New York. The read itself was cozy and a feel-good story for cat lovers and cat enjoyers alike.

Geared towards an adult audience based on the main character ages, Guerrero's "cozy tail" could easily be adapted to a young adult audience. With one awkward romance and navigating finding oneself, the themes in this novel hit adults of all ages - young and young at heart alike.