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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
“Christmas at the Cat Café” by Jessica Redland is delightful. The story revolves around a cozy cat café and its owner, Tabby, who is struggling with health issues and trying to keep the business afloat.
I enjoyed the story’s setting; it had a certain charm. The characters were also quite endearing, especially the cats’ adorable antics.
The plot is heartwarming and perfect for the holiday season, with love, friendship, and family themes. The author does a great job of creating a festive atmosphere and incorporating the spirit of Christmas throughout the story.
Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves cats, cozy holiday reads or wants to escape into a heartwarming story. It’s a sweet, uplifting read that will leave you warm and fuzzy.
I enjoyed the story’s setting; it had a certain charm. The characters were also quite endearing, especially the cats’ adorable antics.
The plot is heartwarming and perfect for the holiday season, with love, friendship, and family themes. The author does a great job of creating a festive atmosphere and incorporating the spirit of Christmas throughout the story.
Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves cats, cozy holiday reads or wants to escape into a heartwarming story. It’s a sweet, uplifting read that will leave you warm and fuzzy.
I could not get myself to connect with the main character Tabby. After reading about the Leon’s reason for breaking up and the flash back to the day before buying the cafe I could not keep reading. Understandable that she is bummed about the breakup but not seeing the signs that a partner is burnt out from the relationship and still playing the victim was the most annoying part. Tabby tells the reader that she depended too much on Leon and didn’t recognize during the relationship that it was a burden. Afterwards, instead of moving forward and focusing on her cafe, there are still discussions about opening the restaurant and blaming Leon for her anxiety about doing it alone. The lack of accountability for assuming the risk of opening a cafe on her own is where I drew the line and DNF the book.
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I had high hopes for this novel, and it was pretty cute but honestly a little boring and not what I expected. It was less about the actual cat café and more focused on the main character's personal drama, such as her boyfriend leaving her and her trying to establish a new relationship with her brother's best friend, who was basically a part of her family growing up from age 9. I predicted this as soon as he started helping her by staying in the flat above the café. I must say, my favorite part of the novel were the cats and my heart was broken for Smudge. The chronic illness, specifically fibromyalgia representation was wonderful and as someone who does not have a chronic illness, it certainly was enlightening on how a person can visually look normal but live in excruciating pain. I also thought the spoon theory was a great way to illustrate her fatigue level. Overall, this was a cute book but I definitely got bored at points and it was not what I expected.
I had high hopes for this novel, and it was pretty cute but honestly a little boring and not what I expected. It was less about the actual cat café and more focused on the main character's personal drama, such as her boyfriend leaving her and her trying to establish a new relationship with her brother's best friend, who was basically a part of her family growing up from age 9. I predicted this as soon as he started helping her by staying in the flat above the café. I must say, my favorite part of the novel were the cats and my heart was broken for Smudge. The chronic illness, specifically fibromyalgia representation was wonderful and as someone who does not have a chronic illness, it certainly was enlightening on how a person can visually look normal but live in excruciating pain. I also thought the spoon theory was a great way to illustrate her fatigue level. Overall, this was a cute book but I definitely got bored at points and it was not what I expected.
Wtf. I thought this would be a low-stakes, cute Christmas romance.
Instead it was about a disabled woman giving up on her dreams. And a CAT DIES HORRIBLY. It’s not described graphically, but jfc, I was not prepared.
Instead it was about a disabled woman giving up on her dreams. And a CAT DIES HORRIBLY. It’s not described graphically, but jfc, I was not prepared.
It was a little creepy when Amazon recommended a book about a woman with chronic pain who owns a cat cafe. I guess the algorithm was at work there. I really enjoyed this. I thought living with a dynamic, chronic illness was pretty well depicted. And there were cats!
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The longer I sit with this, the less I’m happy about this book. I have fibromyalgia myself, and I didn’t feel represented—I felt like I was being lectured to for half the book, and I found a lot of the conversations disingenuous or just wildly unrealistic.
Truthfully, I wasn’t a fan of the writing style from the first chapter—this was a book stuffed full of telling the audience about things instead of showing them, and it felt like most of the characters were flat except when the author needed someone besides Tabby to tell the audience things
I’m also thoroughly disappointed by the ending—not because Tabby did what she thought best for her health, but by how it was presented and came out of left field. And the part with Smudge? Wildly unnecessary
Was it a bad book? No, I wouldn’t say that, but it was really disappointing and not at all what I thought I’d be reading
Truthfully, I wasn’t a fan of the writing style from the first chapter—this was a book stuffed full of telling the audience about things instead of showing them, and it felt like most of the characters were flat except when the author needed someone besides Tabby to tell the audience things
I’m also thoroughly disappointed by the ending—not because Tabby did what she thought best for her health, but by how it was presented and came out of left field. And the part with Smudge? Wildly unnecessary
Was it a bad book? No, I wouldn’t say that, but it was really disappointing and not at all what I thought I’d be reading
Cute
A very hallmark-esque book. Im not a cat person, but it’s a very sweet lighthearted story. Definitely identify with the main character tabby when her body tells her to slow down.
A very hallmark-esque book. Im not a cat person, but it’s a very sweet lighthearted story. Definitely identify with the main character tabby when her body tells her to slow down.
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book was fine, but I was expecting a more lighthearted, Christmas book. The book was more of a downer than a feel good, and the relationship between the main characters was weird