What do you do when you meet the guy of your dreams? Set him up with your sister, of course. Kari doesn’t have time for love when she’s opening her new cat café. Renovating an old restaurant, hiring employees, fighting with the health inspector – oh, and welcoming 16 shelter cats – keeps her plenty busy. She’s doing this for the cats, the community, and most of all her family. The café will give … will give her sister, Marley, a job worthy of her baking skills.
Then a tattooed military vet wanders in claiming to be a master baker himself. The café doesn’t need another baker, but maybe Marley needs a man. Surely she’ll fall for a guy this sweet, this sexy, this tasty.
Colin has other ideas. It’s Kari who makes him want to pour on the sugar and turn up the heat. But he’s spent the last two years recovering from physical and psychological wounds. Is he really ready for a relationship? He’s not even sure he should commit to Samson, the fluffy marshmallow of a cat who steals his heart.
The Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series features the workers and customers at a small-town cat café, and the adorable cats and kittens looking for their forever homes. Each book is a complete story with a happy ending for one couple (and maybe more than one rescued cat). These sweet romances will leave you with the warm, fuzzy feeling of cuddling a purring cat.
If you enjoy friends to lovers tropes, work romances, military heroes, and strong heroines completely failing at playing the matchmaker, check out Coffee and Crushes at the Cat Café. You’ll also find rescue cats with plenty of personality and their own ideas about what love is.
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This was such a cute story! Cats & coffee — a perfect combination, with a bit of romance thrown in. This makes a nice beach read.
4.5 Stars
This series had me intrigued with a cat cafe. They have one near me, but I haven’t gone yet. After reading this book it makes me want to find the time to go. I’m already invested in the characters of this series. They make me want to go visit and be a steady customer. I loved Colin and Kari. Colin had me won over with liking cats and baking. He is dream guy material for me. This was a quick read for me, but boy was it oh so enjoyable. The characters pull your right in. The secondary characters are making me hope they have books in the series. I’m going to go add the rest of the series on my to buy list. This is also the first book I’ve read by this author and I can tell you it won’t be my last!
I enjoyed this book and feel that it’s a great start to a new series. I’d like to have access to a place like this even though I don’t care for coffee and am more of a dog lover. I look forward to reading the next books in the series.
Coffee and Crushes at the Cat Café (Furrever Friends #1) by Kris Bock
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Furrever Friends Café is Kari’s dream. A happy, fun café with adoptable cats and a relaxed environment – that’s the goal. Aged only 24 years, it can be a struggle at times to be taken seriously by her peers but with a well-designed business plan and everything in placeas it should be, she is confident of succeeding. She is sharing her vision with her old sister, Marley, the head baker and her mother who is in charge of the online aspect. Kari wants a better and more orderly life for everyone around her and feels it is her duty and her position to achieve that without taking in to account her own feelings.
Until Colin.
Colin, aged 29, is ex-military, recuperating from an injury he obtained after he left, striving to recover and cope with PTSD. With a slight bad-boy appearance we quickly discover that he is anything but, having a smile that makes you weak at the knees.
Can Kari open her café and play matchmaker at the same time? Or will it all crumble around her?
This is a sweet romance, the first book in the Furrever Friends series but each book is a standalone read. There is a clear and precise introduction that lays down the foundation of the story. I love the idea of having beautiful café surroundings and petting cats with the added extra of helping them become adopted being a major bonus! Unfortunately for me I have never had ther pleasure of such an experience. Firstly, I know that with coffee and cats I would never wish to leave and secondly, I would never be able to choose which cat to adopt!
This is a great book for any animal lover, a must-read that fills you with a sense of satisfaction and well-being. Can’t wait to read more!
I really loved this book from the very beginning to the very end.
I loved the story line and I am a lover of cats and at one time I had 4 and the story just made sense in my opinion.
The characters both human and cats made the story pop in my opinion.
I got this book for free with a honest review given freely.
Coffee and Crushes at the Cat Café: A Furrever Friends Sweet Romance, my first read from author Kris Bock. I was given a Kindle copy of this book and I’m voluntarily reading & reviewing it because every author’s book needs reviews. This was an enjoyable book that sweeps you up & carries you away. It has all the stereotypical romance elements as well as, well you should just buy the book & read it for yourself. The gifting of this book did not affect my opinion of it. I look forward to reading more from this author! *SPOILER* Prepare to have your heartstrings tugged hard. I’m an ASPCA sponsor & loved what this book had to say about adoption. Our last dog was a pound puppy & I’m not ashamed to say I cried when we lost her, in fact, this review is dedicated to her memory. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 – July 24, 2018).
fun sweet romance with likable characters and lots and lots of cats. Kari opens up a cat cafe and has her sister help out. Colin is hired and Kari wants to set him up with her sister
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I really enjoyed reading this book. Colin and Kari are interesting, well developed characters. They have very different backgrounds but are immediately attracted to each other. Kari fights her attraction because she thinks Colin is perfect for her older sister. Interesting insights into a cat cafe.
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This is a sweet, short romance which shows that love can be found anywhere, even (and especially) if you are not looking for it. It was well written and enjoyable and I look forward to new releases in the series
Loved the book. The story was hard to put down. Cats are special and they seem to know when someone needs comfort and love.
At Cat cafe there is love in the air, not just with the cats. I really enjoyed this book. The characters are very real and interesting.
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Or should it be Cats and Love? Kari has her dream of helping homeless cats find a good home by introducing them to people in the playroom at the Cat Cafe. But she has another dream. She wants to date Colin, who works as a baker there. Will this wounded military vet claim the cats and the girl he wants?
I loved this book so much that I purchased the next book in the series, and it is just as sweet!
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The title sure says it all I had a great time and was highly entertaining with each turn of the page. The characters are well developed and engaging and the storyline flowed smoothly from beginning to the end.
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This is the first book in this series and I cannot wait to read the rest! It does not get any better than this with coffee, cats, and sexy Collin. I really enjoyed the story and the fun chemistry between Kari and Collin. I would love to go to a cat care because it sounds like a lot of fun.
This book is just warm fuzzies all over and really can you go wrong with Cats, coffee, and a cute guy! Kari is always looking out for everyone else but herself so much so that when the gruff and sexy guy who has applied to work at her new cafe she thinks he and her sister should get together while she stresses herself trying to get her new Cafe up and running. This is a heart warming story with some good laughs about family, achieving a dream, learning to allow others in, cats make everyone happy and that love comes in all different packages. I can’t wait to get stuck into the other books in the Cat Café series!!
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A lovely, warm story of Kari’s coffee shop starring cats. I enjoyed the way Kari and Colin interacted with each other, their family and the cats. Good job!
Very cute and fun read. I love animals and anything to do with cars or dogs I’ll read. Even better when romance is involved. I enjoyed the book and will definitely read more in the series.
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Coffee and cats. Hmmm. Do they go together? I was intrigued by the unique concept of this book, so much so that I had to look it up to see if something like coffee shops with cats actually exist. Apparently, they do. And while it does not make much sense to me, I guess it obviously has a market and audience to cater for. As for the story… what I liked was that Colin does not fit into the traditional mould of romantic heroes. He is less than perfect physically, has mental health issues he’s dealing with, but, most importantly, a heart and character that is perfect for the heroine. Kari, on the other hand, has a controlling A-type personality that initially grates on the nerves, until she shows her more endearing side. The feline characters steal the show, that’s for sure. The story moved too slowly for me, but the author is very thorough in painting a vivid picture of what goes into making such an endeavour a success. For that, she must be commended. Would I like to read more in the series? I’m purrr-fectly sure I would not. Cat lovers would get the most enjoyment out of it. And that’s not being catty at all. *smile*
” Coffee and Crushes at the Cat Café a Furrever Friends Sweet Romance” by Kris Bock is a tale of one lady named Kari…who while starting her new Cat cafe …that will feature up to 16 shelter Felines ….and give her sister …Marley..a much needed baking position. Sooo when a sexy hunk of an ex-military man enters her cat cafe claiming to be a master baker …why Kari immediately thinks that this one …,by the name of Colin is just purrfect for her sister …Marley. But unfortunately…OR is it fortunately….Colin only has eyes for Kari herself. BUT ..Colin is a mite skittish…to begin two new relationships …one with Kari…and one with a furry Feline named Samson. Will Kari and Colin …and Samson find their HEA Forever Home?!? And what if the other shelter Felines?!? Read and see. Much enjoyed and Highly Recommended. I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Copy of this book.
Coffee And Crushes At The Cat Cafe
I really enjoyed reading this story and getting to know the characters and the very characteristic cats as they took me along on their journey