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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM

Allison's Book Report - “A Cat Café Christmas” by Codi Gary

Allison's Book Report - “A Cat Café Christmas” by Codi Gary
Photo by Allison Diegel.

We are officially halfway through December, and we are feeling all of the Christmas vibes at my house. This is the first Christmas in forever that my kids aren’t doing a thousand extracurricular activities, and it has been wonderful. We watch every Christmas movie we can get our hands on, bake cookies, drink hot cocoa, and generally just live like the Whos in Whoville. It has been so great to just lean into a quiet family holiday season that it feels like not much can make me feel Grinchy - even the frozen pipe and water spraying everywhere first thing Monday morning didn’t get me down. You can just call me Cindy Lou Who, out here living my best Who Christmas life as the book lady of Whoville and a Christmas romance novel Book Report.

“A Cat Café Christmas” by Codi Gary is perfectly sweet, soft, and swoon-worthy – and best of all, it is full of cats. Veterinarian and animal lover Kara Ingalls dreamed of opening the Meow and Furrever Cat Café and finding loving homes for adorable, adoptable cats. What started as a dream come true is quickly becoming a total nightmare. With more cats than customers, Kara needs a Christmas miracle to save the cat café and herself from bankruptcy. Enter Ben Reese, an annoyingly smart and bossy marketing guru. It is far from love at first sight for Kara, but when Ben comes up with a plan to have the cat café in the green by Christmas, she realizes that she has no choice but to accept his help. Despite his excellent problem-solving skills and his nerdy-hot vibes, he struggles with fostering one little kitten. Kara and Ben have to put aside their differences and find homes for all of the cats by Christmas, and love starts to bloom. Kara needs to do her best to keep their relationship strictly professional to save the cat café, but as happens so often in these stories, that is a task that turns out to be easier said than done.

My favorite thing about A Cat Café Christmas was how each chapter opens with the adoption ad for a different kitty at the café. This book is a fast and adorable read - a perfect Hallmark-y story for cat lovers.

That’s it for this week from the self-proclaimed Whoville book expert. Come back next week - my holiday romance binge is far from over. I hope your heart grows three sizes when you read this book and that you come and check out what else I am reading and rambling about (and pictures of my cats, too) on my Instagram @allison.the.reader.  

Allison Diegel is the Executive Chaos Coordinator at the Diegel Home for Wayward Girls and Their Many Pets here in her hometown of Fallon. She has been reading since before she could talk, and now she likes doing lots of both.
 


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