Book Review - Confessions of an Angel Cat by Nic Tatano

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Title: Confessions of an Angel Cat

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied copy

Publisher: Self published

Publication Date: 18th May 2018

Rating: 5 Stars

Meet Murphy, an Angel Cat. An actual Guardian Angel in the form of a cat.

No, seriously.

Guardian Angels take different forms on Earth, but in the case of Angel Cats, they’re sent on missions to fix broken lives. And while doing so, they strive to achieve a “heart lock” with a human, a bond so strong it will last forever. Their reward is to spend eternity in Heaven with their special person.

Alas, Murphy has failed several times and is beginning to wonder if he’s cut out for the job.

But when he’s assigned to Maggie Ryan, a seriously ill teenage girl who is ready to give up, he begins to see the proverbial bright light.

Will he be able to turn Maggie’s life around, and, in doing so, achieve the heart lock he so desperately wants?

I have just been on the most amazing roller coaster of emotion with this book which has given me all the feels, and had me welling up a few times too.    I can't believe I let it sit unread on my kindle so long, just due to my own scepticism when it comes to anything slightly unusual such as angels. 

For without a doubt Murphy is an angel cat, I now completely believe angel cats may exist, and he is one incredibly special cat, once he finds his forever home.  He is an inspirational cat and he at the same time answers questions that every single cat owner I'm sure would love to know the answer too. 

It is clear this has been written by a real lover of cats, and in fact this book combines what appear to be the authors two trade marks, at the moment, an adorable feline, and a strong willed red-headed lady. 

And what a leading lady she is, Maggie's story is just wow - and it will stick with me for ages.  However I can barely touch on all the amazingness in this book as in doing so it would be major spoilers for all aspects of Maggie's life. 

Rest assured this is heart warming, emotional and completely inspirational. From the first few pages I knew I needed to know more, and I have just sat and read the last half of the book in one sitting, as nothing would have been able to tear me away from it.  

This is definitely a book that has got me thinking, and of all the various theories out there, I really love the idea of angel cats, and them trying to earn their heart lock with a human - really bonding them.   Everything about how Murphy explains things is really cute and lovely.  And then we also see more of Maggie's life in real time, not from a cat perspective, which means you get to know more facets of her life too. 

Maggie and Murphy are a dream team, both as wonderful as each other and have both completely touched my heart.  I'm so happy that I had the chance to read this, it truly is a special little book. 

Thank you the author for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

Book Review - Real Men Love Cats by Nic Tatano

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Title: Real Men Love Cats

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied copy

Publisher: Self Publisher

Publication Date: 1st December 2017

Rating: 5 Stars

Advertising copywriter Rory Callahan is very picky. She thinks Mister Right should check off some important boxes.
But if “love me, love my cat” isn’t one of them, that’s a dealbreaker.

Unfortunately, the men she’s been dating lately want nothing to do with her playful six-toed tabby, Hemingway. Or any cat, for that matter. Can this classic girl-next-door find a real man who loves cats?

Romance moves to the back burner when a terrific business opportunity that seems perfect for her falls in her lap. The CEO of a national cat food company is looking for a new ad agency, and Rory is desperate for the huge account.
The one guy standing in her way? A modern day advertising whiz named Will Prescott who seems to be right out of the Mad Men era as far as women are concerned.

Or is she reading him wrong? After all, the guy does like cats. How bad could he be?

After a horrible first meeting and a series of bizarre misunderstandings she’s keeping him at arms’ length. But when Will and Hemingway cross paths, she begins to see him in a different light.Can her cat show her the way?

Utterly hilarious and possibly the best book in this series, especially like me if you are a fan of accidental double entendres when a situation is clearly misunderstood. 

For that is a large part of Will and Rory's story and it makes the will they, won't they that bit more interesting. Especially was Rory's co-worker Skylar is making it clear that Will is bad news. But Savannah, who works along side Will is working her Southern magic to turn him into a gentleman. 

Rory knows one thing for sure and that is unless a man likes cats, and Hemingway likes a man, then a potential relationship is doomed from the start. 

This is the fourth book in Nic Tatano's simply brilliant series, where each book features a different cat and one of the friendship group. They can easily be read as a standalone, but having read them all I can state they are all wonderful stories, each with their own charms,  top leading ladies, adorable cats and sexy men and each one is worth a look. 

I loved the very different people that Will and Rory both are, and the way they were interacting with each other. They are both trying to work out why it is they can't seem to sustain a relationship and their friends have rather similar ideas on how to help.   They do both work in advertising and as a result do happen to keep running into each other. 

Of course Wil isn't the only man in the book, there are other potential men for Rory and the one thing they all have in common is their phwoar factor!  

Real Men Love Cats besides being a true statement of fact, is a rather apt title for this book that had me smiling the whole way through.  Absolutely loved every second of this rather quick and funny story. 

Thank you to Nic Tatano for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

Book Review - The Sunshine Cat's Choice by Nic Tatano

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Title: The Sunshine Cat's Choice

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied copy

Publisher: Self published

Publication Date: 14th September 2017

Rating: 5 Stars

A.J. Scaramucci’s life has always been shaken, not stirred.

Pretty typical for a spunky gal from Staten Island who runs her family’s delicatessen and is not shy about saying what she thinks. When a new business across the street brings two men into her life, she’s presented with a choice.

But when a major red flag is revealed, the decision seems totally out of her hands.

And for a woman who always takes what she wants, it’s a new experience.

Turns out her equally spunky cat Gypsy has more input than she does.

The pet she calls “my sunshine” will have to work a little feline magic for a happy ending.

The second I spotted there was a new "cat" book from Nic Tatano, I was jumping from tall things, in pure ecstasy, ok that may actually be Gypsy, AJ's cat, as she launches another stealth attack, in happiness that AJ is home, but surely its the same principal. I was pawsitively excited. 

I have loved the previous two books featuring Maddison with Bumper, and Tish with Socks, and was eager to see what the Italian firecracker of AJ had in store for us. 

Well its a heartwarming story with a sweet romance, with two potential male suitors, plenty of fabulous moments involving Gypsy and I just loved AJ's personality.  She starts the book fed up with a certain type of man and enlists her friends to give her a makeover, and its not long until she starts to see the results. 

There are two key men in this book, an architect who is transforming the apartment of the previously abandoned building opposite AJ's Deli and the man who is first met when he wasn't allowed to speak due to Laryngitis, so there is plenty of eye contact! 

On the surface both men are perfect, but neither are just that straightforward, but I won't tell you anything more than that. 

Food lovers will rejoice with great descriptions of assorted Italian deli food and pastries, and then if that's not enough to tease your tastebuds, then we discover what the new business across the road is becoming. 

As is often the case the star of this book though was Gypsy, that is one cat with great taste in humans, is playful and sensitive and in some cases a chaperone too. Gypsy is the main reason that AJ is looking for a man with "cat values " but I'll let her explain it in the book. 

This is one claw-some, meow-nificent book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I just hope I don't have to wait as long to read Rory's story. 

Thank you so much to Nic Tatano for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

Guest Post - Curses, foiled again…by Nic Tatano - #CuteChristmas

Of all the cats I’ve had in my lifetime, and there have been many, our Siamese kitty Pandora was with us the longest. Seventeen years. Which was pretty incredible since she was abandoned by the mother cat when only a few days old and kept alive with an eyedropper and bottle.

Pandora was very attached to me, a true one-person cat, but having been “raised by wolves” she had a ton of quirks, most of them related to food. I could not eat any potato chips with her in the room, as she was determined to eat one and would jump on me and get in my face trying to do so. (Salt isn’t good for cats, by the way.) Grapes were another obsession. Well, not the actual grapes. If you ate a bunch of grapes, left the stems in a bowl, and walked away, you’d return finding Pandora gnawing on them like a dog with a bone.

Then there were the inedible objects, as I once pulled a dress shirt from a laundry basket and found she had eaten every single button on it.

She was also a food critic. Give her a new brand of cat food she didn’t like, and she would turn her back on it and make a “covering it up” movement like it was something unsavory in the litter box.
But the one thing that was a true obsession with Pandora… ham. If she smelled a ham cooking she’d be pacing in the kitchen, back and forth like a caged animal in a zoo, determined to get a bite. If dinner included ham you either had to lock her in another room or stay completely focused on your plate, as she was not shy about jumping on the dinner table and stealing food.

We forgot about this one Christmas.

The holiday dinner had been a typical one; a ham with all the trimmings, lots of great side dishes and desserts. If you’re like most people you like to go back and nibble on the main dish later in the day, so before putting the ham in the fridge we left it on the cooktop and covered it with aluminum foil.
Forgetting about the family member with the ham obsession.

As we’re watching television, we suddenly heard a strange sound from the kitchen. Sort of like something metallic being crumpled up. I thought maybe we had a mouse in the house.
We got up to investigate, turned on the kitchen light, and there was our cat Pandora, standing with all fours on top of the ham, pulling back the foil with her teeth. Basically unwrapping what she considered to be her Christmas gift. Fortunately I was able to grab her before she got very far. I can only imagine that if we had gone out for a walk we would have come back to a ham covered with cat hair. Yum.

So, a word of advice to people with cats that really do not respect boundaries. (Now that I think about it, that’s pretty much every cat.) 

Tupperware makes a great Christmas gift. Because you simply can’t foil a cat.

What a fantastic story Nic, I loved it, and I love Pandora too. Thanks for sharing and Happy Holidays.

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The purrfect gift this Christmas…

The night her house catches fire, kick-ass lawyer Tish McKenna’s neatly ordered life is thrown into chaos. At least she’s alive—thanks to her adorable cat, Socks!—and after her near-death experience Tish realises she wants more in her life than late nights and case files…

Professionally speaking, hot-shot attorney, Spencer Capshaw hadn’t realised how far off track he’d come. Sure, he had his reasons originally—saving his dad’s life required more money than the DA’s office paid him—yet helping corrupt corporate bigwigs was not why he became a lawyer…

With a little help from a furry friend, these two lost souls find each other in the heart of Manhattan. But when Tish and Spence are pitted against each other in a trial that pushes them both to their limits, can their budding relationship survive?

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Book Review - The Empire State Cat's Christmas Gift by Nic Tatano - #CuteChristmas

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Title:  The Empire State Cat's Christmas Gift

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Harper Impulse

Publication Date: 4th November 2016

Rating: 5 Stars

The purrfect gift this Christmas…

The night her house catches fire, kick-ass lawyer Tish McKenna’s neatly ordered life is thrown into chaos. At least she’s alive—thanks to her adorable cat, Socks!—and after her near-death experience Tish realises she wants more in her life than late nights and case files…

Professionally speaking, hot-shot attorney, Spencer Capshaw hadn’t realised how far off track he’d come. Sure, he had his reasons originally—saving his dad’s life required more money than the DA’s office paid him—yet helping corrupt corporate bigwigs was not why he became a lawyer…

With a little help from a furry friend, these two lost souls find each other in the heart of Manhattan. But when Tish and Spence are pitted against each other in a trial that pushes them both to their limits, can their budding relationship survive?

Nic Tatano is fast becoming my go to author for fabulous romances, and this is no exception. The Empire State Cat's Christmas Gift is a purrfect example of a fabulous book, filled with laughs and probably one of my most liked couples this year. I am left with a great sadness that the book had to come to an end, but equally I can't quite believe how fast I read it. 

There have been moments while enjoying the story where I was laughing out loud, as some of the funny moments just caught me, and other points on my commute, I was looking around in shock that I had hit my station and had better get off before it was too late, as I wasn't aware of any of my surroundings, I was so engrossed in finding out how the story would turn out. 

Socks is the cat in question in this book, the second of Nic Tatano's cat books, and is from the same litter of kittens that featured in The Lost Cats and Lonely Hearts Club. You don't need to have read that book first, as they can both be enjoyed as stand alones, with completely different romances at the heart of each. 

Socks is undoubtedly a hero, as without him, it would have been a tragic story and ended very soon, for within the first couple of pages he saves his person's Tish's life, and ends up all over the media and a fund raising magnet. Socks also plays his part in getting Tish her man. 

Tish is a top lawyer, who is incredibly smart and has one really big case to try and win before Christmas, that is causing her a lot of stress. She sees a "white knight" of a man in a restaurant and decides she wants to track him down, as he is gorgeous, and very much her type.  

Spence is checking out the new judge in town, when he first sees Tish, doing her thing in court, and becomes smitten easily. She is everything he tends to go for in a woman, but he isn't sure how to approach her. 

As the pair become incredibly close, there is the big trial that is threatening to cause a huge rift in their relationship. Throughout the book, this one case is explained in laymans terms, and I will admit that watching Tish in court was brilliant. If I ever need a lawyer I would want her to represent me. It is a real David vs Goliath sort of case, and was very interesting to see just how the lawyers were dealing with it. 

It is though the romance that I of course enjoyed the most, well apart from any scene involving Socks, and the drink vendor Bennie outside the Empire State Building who is a wonderful chap, and just wants to get his two regular customers together. Spence and Tish are both have quite old fashioned values when it comes to dating, and I really enjoyed their first evening date. It was far more imaginative than I would have thought of, entertaining, and magical. 

With a combination of a cute cat, a very romantic man who is very charming, a strong confident woman, a group of hilarious friends, an air vent, a Christmas miracle, an intensive court battle which was enthralling, in addition to a great writing style and way of easily telling the story with good pacing, The Empire State Cat's Christmas Gift is a must read this festive period. 

Thank you so much to Harper Impulse and Netgalley for my copy of this book. This was my honest opinion. 

Book Review - The Lost Cats and Lonely Hearts Club by Nic Tatano

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Title: The Lost Cats and Lonely Hearts Club

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Harper Impulse

Publication Date: 26/8/16

Rating: 5 Stars

Step away from the cat videos on YouTube and put your reservation for the cat cafe on hold because this is a must-read for cat lovers, rom com enthusiasts and hopeless romantics…

Swapping Prada for purrs…

While covering a story, feisty network reporter Madison Shaw gets more than she bargained for when she rescues a box of orphaned kittens. Suddenly the glamazon of the Manhattan news room is doing two am feedings to keep these furbabies alive!

This is certainly a change of pace for the high maintenance workaholic she’s become and taking care of the kittens makes Madison realise how far off track she’s come—after all, she was a stray once too…

When a video of her caring for the kittens goes viral, she knows her image as a hardnosed reporter is shot to hell. What Madison doesn’t expect is the media circus that propels her and the kittens to stardom. And the domino effect that has on her, her career and her love life—especially when she meets sexy Officer Nick Marino…!

I was perhaps a paragraph into this book before realising that I would be in for a an absolute reading treat. The only thing I will say is if you are not a fan of warm fuzzy feelings, and the two potential love interests both being on the surface incredibly honorable and decent guys, then look elsewhere. If you love all that sort of thing, then The Lost Cats & Lonely Hearts Club is a must read. 

I'd generally regard myself as more of a dog person than a cat person, but when reading fiction, I'm a sucker for just about any four legged kitten, and when the book starts with four adorable kittens that have been orphaned, then my heart melts instantly, and stays melted for the whole story. 

The stars of the book without a shadow of a doubt are the four kittens, especially a rather special tortoise-shell who is adorable but not perfect and the clear favourite of their saviour Madison Shaw. 

Madison has a reputation for being a hard hitting television news reporter, who is career driven, up until she spends a weekend up at all hours feeding the kittens she finds and saves when on a job. Between that and another cat related good deed, a video finds its way onto youtube that goes viral and from that stage her story takes on a life of its own. 

During the time she has the kittens, they prove to be the best test ever as to whether a man is worth spending any more time with, and finally they like two men about as much as Madison does, leaving her feeling guilty and torn. 

Madison also has a fabulous network of her friends, all as fabulous as she is, as well as a not so happy childhood that needs to be navigated. There are some bigger issues touched upon this story, but not in any where near enough depth to bring down the happy upbeat, comforting feeling from this book. 

If I was in a position to do so, I would be seriously tempted to run down to my nearest animal shelter and adopt a kitten after reading this story, as I really did fall in love with Buster. I also fell in love with Madison's men too. 

I think that if you are having a bad day this is the purrfect pick me up sort of book, to warm even the hardest of hearts and just have you smiling with all the good and comforting vibes coming off it. I vaguely recall saying only a few weeks ago in my review of The Love Triangle, also by Nic Tatano, that it was my favourite book by him, but this one surpasses it in every single way in my affections. 

I have said it once, and I'll happily say it again, that every book by this wonderful author is going from strength to strength and I am very excited to see what will be next. 

Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Impulse for this review copy. This was my honest opinion. 

Guest Post - How I Lost My First Writing Contest At A New York Mets Game by Nic Tatano - Booklympics

I’m sure most writers have entered contests at one time or another. Especially if there’s a big cash prize or a publishing contract.

The first writing contest I entered had a prize that was much more important to me at the time.

A color TV.

Yes, I’m “of a certain age.” And yes, black-and-white televisions actually existed. But when you’re eleven years old and no one on the block has a color set, a prize like that was like winning the lottery.

Back in the day the New York Mets had this annual event called “banner day.” Fans would bring signs, many on bedsheets, and parade around the field between games of a doubleheader. The most creative would win a big prize.

And that year I had an idea that I knew would win.

Back in the day (yep, here we go again) there were actually cigarette ads on television. I know, the horror. Anyway, this brand called Tareyton had a campaign called “Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch” which featured people with black eyes. (Watch the video and look at the ad and you’ll get the idea.) And being the die-hard Mets fan that I was, I knew what to write on the perfect banner.

“Us Met fans would rather fight than switch.”

So my mom the art teacher got a big piece of poster board and together we made the banner. (Okay, she did most of the work.)

Banner Day arrived and felt like Christmas morning as I imagined watching my favorite shows in color. As my dad drove to Shea Stadium I could only think… is this the last time I’ll watch baseball in black-and-white? Will I now be the most popular kid in the neighborhood? And of course as we entered the stadium I couldn’t help but be impressed by the gorgeous green field which had only looked gray at home.

So the first game ends and my father and I carry the banner on the hallowed ground of Shea Stadium. We got a decent cheer as we went by the stands. My heart rate spiked and didn’t come down as we went back to our seats.

Then they announced the winning banner.

“Us Met fans would rather shrink than switch.”

You gotta be kidding me.

The winning kids were paraded on the field wearing oversized clothes. Seriously, that’s how they won? As we said back in the day, “No fair!”

The crowd groaned.

I held up my banner.

They cheered.

My dad shook his head in disgust. “We shoulda worn black eyes and torn shirts.”

But who knew the contest would have a wardrobe component?

Then we got home and my mom made it worse.

“I saw you on TV! ON TV! And the announcer loved your banner!”

It didn’t stop. That night I plopped down to watch TV as the network announcer poured salt in my wound telling viewers what show was starting. And what it should look like. “THE F-B-I… IN COLOR!”

Sure, rub it in.

Finally, to twist the knife the following year, a photo of the winners ended up in the Mets yearbook.
I finally got over it and we did eventually get a color TV, just in time for the moon landing in 1969. Which, of course, made absolutely no sense since it was mostly in black-and-white anyway because there’s not a lot of green grass or blue skies on the moon.

Anyway, that whole experience of losing a writing contest fired me up.

I never stopped entering writing contests. 

And I’ll never stop writing even though I could do other stuff with my time.

I’d rather fight than switch.

Thank you so much Nic for that fun tale from the Mets and I really hope you are looking forward to Tokyo 2020 where Baseball will be an Olympic sport.

Nic Tatano can be found on Twitter and his latest book is The Lost Cats and Lonely Hearts Club which is out on Friday and available for pre-order. 

Book Review - The Love Triangle by Nic Tatano - Booklympics

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Title: The Love Triangle

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Harper Impulse

Publication Date: 24th March 2016

Rating: 5 Stars

Public relations expert Lexi Harlow is the queen of getting her clients out of sticky situations. But can she do it for herself?

After an incendiary breakup (setting fire to her cheating boyfriend’s pants), Lexi decides to play the field for the first time in her life. Two suitors are vying for her affections: New York’s most eligible bachelor and pro quarterback Jake Frost, and sports agent Kyle Caruso. But when the athlete hires the agent, and both enlist her services to take care of public relations, well…

There’s only one way Lexi can get out of this love triangle before everything blows up in her face: choose one.

But when the candle she’s burning at both ends meets in the middle, the choice is no longer hers.

I strongly believe that Nic Tatano is improving as an author with each book, and this is definitely the best yet, and an absolute delight to read. Although the book is called The Love Triangle and there is a certainly a triangle in the book, I am slightly surprised it wasn't called Spin Girl, given that is exactly what Lexi Harlow is. 

She is a strong willed, feisty red-head, who knows exactly what she wants and is a very creative PR person, running her own small company. After a spectacular breakup with an ex, she decides to play the field a bit, and soon has two men who have attracted her interest. 

There is star quarterback Jake of the New York Jets, who earns a fortune and treats Lexi to all manner of dates that the average person would not be able to compete with - including helicopters and yachts. The other is sports agent Kyle Caruso, who Lexi first meets playing basketball, and utterly beats him at the game. He challenges her to two dates, one that each of them organises with the idea to be as creative as possible within a $100 limit. 

I loved Kyle's initial dates with Lexi as they both show great amounts of innovation to come up some fabulous dates and lets just say if Lexi wasn't dating him, I would have been. 

Of course dating two guys was never going to be easy, especially since they are all in related fields, so concealing the details was never going to work long term, and things start to unravel when they are all working together on projects. 

You may be surprised that I am loving a book that clearly features a woman who is arguably stringing along two men, but she isn't sleeping with either, and its all rather tame for the majority of the book. However I loved getting to know the characters involved, and for a book featuring a sports star, and sports agent, there was a scene that really got my adrenalin pumping, which didn't involve any sport at all. 

Although I had a strong inkling for most of the book as to who Lexi would chose, and it does become quite apparent, I had to agree with her choice, and the scene where she lets the other man down is priceless. 

Thoroughly entertaining story, that I couldn't get enough of. Fast paced, full of humour and creativity, and of course the trademark feisty redhead that the author is becoming known for. 

Thank you to Harper Impulse and Netgalley for this review copy. This was my honest opinion. 

Book Review - Cover Girl by Nic Tatano

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Title: Cover Girl

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Harper Impulse

Publication Date: 3rd September 2015

Rating: 4.5 Stars

Powerhouse romance editor Keira Madison is known as “Cover Girl” – because she’s come up with the concepts for the covers of the best selling novels in history. But right now, she’s desperate to replace her best selling author.

Wannabe author Alex Bauer has given up hope of ever selling his military thriller, so he takes a shot at writing a romance and sends it to super agent Bella Farentino. She’s blown away by the book, but more shocked to find out the author is a man. So she decides it’s best to keep it a secret when pitching the novel – what does a man know about romance after all?

When Keira buys the book, Alex needs a cover story to hide the fact he’s the real author. So he invents a fictional cousin who’s an agoraphobe; too shy to ever leave the house. He agrees to work as “her” intermediary during the editing process while getting a friend to “play” the author on the phone.

One major problem. He falls hard for Keira, a spunky redhead who is a dead ringer for the heroine in the book. And she’s smitten with him, as he’s a clone of the novel’s romantic hero, a fictional Mister Right come to life.

You see where this is going.

As the release date for the book gets closer, their relationship grows stronger while the tale of the fictional author goes over the top. At some point Alex will have to come clean that he’s the real author of the book but worries he’ll risk losing Keira because she won’t be able to trust him.

It’s “Tootsie” meets the publishing world… without anyone getting dressed up in drag.

• Keira is a top romance editor that believes men can't write romance books
• Alex Bauer is a man who has tried to write a romance
• Alex's agent is shocked to discover a man wrote this top manuscript
• She makes him pretend to keep the author's true identity a secret. 
• Alex when meeting Keira for the first time, pretends he is the cousin of the real author (a 400 pound agoraphobe) and then co-erces his flat mate and best friend to be the voice for the author
• Alex and Keira are clearly attracted to each other...however, they are both attracted to another person, who seems perfect for them
• Add in Gretchen, Keira's best friend, and Juliette who is really helping Alex out and you are left with a potentially confusing set of relationships and a whole lot of fun. 

Now that I have the key bits of the basics of the plot out of the way, I can say this is brilliant. There is a lot of fiction mirroring reality, and Alex is  a truly romantic man. If I wasn't currently still in love with another book boyfriend, I would want him for myself. 

Both Keira and Alex are going through very similar decisions in their personal lives, and when their other dates suddenly meet each other, it becomes a whole new level of crazy. 

There are quite a few twists and turns, and its as though the book that Alex has written is really his and Keira's story, but then there is the deception too.  

Cover Girl has a superb cast of characters and was a very enjoyable read. Nic Tatano continues to amaze me with the "Girl" series of books. All completely separate stories, but with strong female leads in common. Amazingly with this romance, there isn't much sex, plenty of kissing and lust though, which always makes a nice change, and heightens your sense of both characters relationship. 

Incredibly enjoyable book, that I am very happy I have had a chance to read. 

Thanks to Harper Impulse and Netgalley for this review copy. This was my honest opinion and review. 

Book Review - Boss Girl by Nic Tatano - #HIReadathon

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Title: Boss Girl

Author: Nic Tatano

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Puchased

Publisher: Harper Impulse

Publication Date: 20th February 2014

Rating: 5 Stars

Sydney Hack is the single, thirtysomething VP of news for a failing network… and she also has a taste for younger men.

She soon realizes a whole lot of over-thirty female viewers do as well, so she sets out to give these women what they want; a chiseled, trophy buck in his twenties sitting on the anchor desk next to a woman…

Just.
Like.
Them.

With nothing to lose she does the unthinkable; along with three female managers who happen to be her best friends she brings out the casting couch and turns it into a sleeper sofa. Doesn't matter that the men have no television experience. As long as they look good. And there’s a hint of romance in every newscast.

Ratings skyrocket as a result, but Sydney and her female cohorts discover something else along the way…

True love is not always age appropriate.

Boss Girl is empowering and hilarious. I laughed so much at this book (even out loud). The main thing with Boss Girl is not to take it too seriously, at face value, this is escapism at its best, and as a woman, approaching the age of the women in this book, I would have liked nothing better to be in their positions. The jobs sound like a lot of fun for a single woman looking for a good time!

Sydney Hack, is  trailblazer for television. She is the vice president of a news programme, with failing ratings, until she works out what a largely neglected demographic want.. over thirty women. She decides to change the anchor team on her news show by making the anchor team a mature 35+ year old woman, and a young, in his twenties man. Which is of course the complete opposite of traditional news teams of the young girl and older man. 

And of course Sydney decides that in order to sell a lifestyle, she needs to "check the references" of any young man trying to work for her.  When the ratings go up, and she syndicates it to her best friends across America similar trends are noticed.  To the extent that the network decide on a rebrand to CGR, and featuring women and men that fit into this demographic set. 

There is a lot of sex referenced, although very little shown fully or in detail. The implications are that the men and women are at it complete with partner swapping, and general female dominance. So long as you have an open mind, and enjoy the thought of traditional role reversal, in men being treated like pieces of meat, instead of women, this is an entertaining book. 

Topics such as discrimination come up, but Sydney and her girls, stand by everything they do, and the ratings show what they are up to must be good. Arguably some of what goes on in this book could be described as controversial, but whether you agree with it or not, it is very engaging and I was completely hooked by the story, and some of the backlash to the network is hilarious. 

Boss Girl features strong female characters, who frankly are an inspiration to me, in a sexual way. Nic Tatano with this "girl" series, always seems to create memorable leading ladies, in books steeped in humour and good times. And this was definitely no exception. 

I loved Boss Girl so much I didn't want it to end. It is quite unlike most of books of the romantic comedy genre that I have read, in that the main romance isn't even the main character, but it does deal with the relationships between men and women, and that is always a fun topic.