Reimagining Mr. Right (Cat’s Paw Cove Book 6)

This delightful installment from Cat’s Paw Cove features ugly duckling turned Swan, Sydney McCoy. Sydney agreed to help her former tutoring student Levi, if he helps her understand her crush’s baseball loaded speech. But things get complicated when Sydney and Levi start to fall for each other. This is a charming story well spun, and guaranteed to thoroughly please the reader.

A Funny romantic cozy read! This is the 6th book in the series Cat’s Paw Cove. In this one Sydney wants to break into the tv business and wants to get help from a tv sports co worker Chip that doesn’t even know she exists. She Meets Levi by accident who has his own problems with his work. He agrees to help her with her Chip problems but comes to regret it when he falls for her himself. A lot of twists in this story but done so smoothly it is refreshing to read. Looking forward to the next in the series.

Good story about two people who must overcome their insecurities before they can find the happiness that each wants. Sydney is a reporter for the local paper. Her dream is to move from print journalism to broadcast journalism, and she knows how to do it. All she needs to do is engage the interest of fellow reporter and local TV sports personality, Chip Haggerty. The problem is that his conversation is loaded with sports metaphors, leaving her clueless and unable to talk to him, much less attract him. What she needs is an interpreter.

Levi is a real estate agent who has been tasked with convincing two hold-out property owners to sell so that the site can be developed into a modern complex. His boss is dangling a partnership in front of him for extra motivation. What he needs is someone impartial who can help point out the benefits.

I liked both Sydney and Levi. They knew each other in high school, where the shy, nerdy, overweight Sydney tutored the good-looking football player that she had a crush on. Though she never expected anything to come of it, she was still hurt when he ignored her after he no longer needed her help. In the years since high school, Sydney made herself over into a beautiful and talented woman, though she frequently still sees herself as that high school loser. Though Levi is successful at his job, he still sees himself as that kid from the wrong side of the tracks. He’s willing to do anything to gain the respect that he craves.

I liked their first meeting. Sydney recognized Levi immediately, though Levi didn’t recognize her. He did notice how beautiful she was now and intrigued when he learned that she is a reporter. He has no trouble asking her to help him again, this time by writing a positive article about the redevelopment plans. Sydney is determined not to be taken advantage of this time and agrees to look into writing an unbiased story if he will help her land Chip as a boyfriend.

I enjoyed the development of Sydney and Levi’s relationship. The sparks are there from the beginning, but both try to ignore them in pursuit of their individual goals. Sydney is focused on getting Chip’s attention and tries to ignore the signs that her high school crush isn’t as over as she thought it was. Even worse, Chip isn’t showing up too well when Levi is around. For Levi, it doesn’t take long at all for him to realize that he’d like to get a lot closer to Sydney for himself, not help her get closer to Chip. For both of them, their own insecurities work against them. Levi spent his whole life listening to his father put him down, wanting nothing more than to be respected for who he is. Though he looks confident on the outside, there’s always that little kid inside who remembers being poor, laughed at, and mistreated by his father. Why then should beautiful Sydney want him when hot-shot Chip is there? For Sydney, she may be thin, beautiful, and respected now, but she can’t forget the plain, picked-on, and almost invisible teenager who had a crush on Levi. He could have anyone he wanted, why should he look twice at her?

To make matters worse, Levi’s boss makes it plain to Sydney that he expects Levi’s previous relationship with his daughter to start again, and he wouldn’t be inclined to give Levi that partnership if someone interfered with it. There were some interesting twists as both Levi and Sydney discover that they have to love themselves before they can accept the love of someone else. I enjoyed the ending, and seeing Levi and Sydney find the love they both wanted and deserved.

Secondary characters were well done. Levi’s boss and his daughter, Beth, were both people it was easy to dislike. He was the stereotypical uncaring boss, who is only interested in the bottom line. I was a little worried about his influence on Levi at first, but Levi was up to the challenge. Beth was a piece of work. Definitely a spoiled daddy’s girl, she did what she wanted without care for the consequences. I was very happy to see that Levi had her number. Chip was the illustration of the dumb jock. He had all the charm and charisma he needed to get by, often by convincing someone to help him. I was irritated by the way he talked Sydney into editing (read “rewriting”) his columns for him. Even when he was supposed to be with Sydney, he saw nothing wrong with ignoring her to be with the people fawning all over him.

There wasn’t much magic in this book, mostly just a couple examples of Levi’s talent, and a mention of Fiona’s potions. That’s okay; the story was fun even without it.

I fell in love with Cats Paw Cove and the people there when I read the anthology Meows and Mistletoe so I was really excited to see that Wynter Daniels was taking us back to that wonderful magical place. Now, if you have managed to go through life without finding yourself in a similar position as the one Sydney is now facing, you are definitely in the minority. Do you know the saying Be careful what you wish for? Well, Sydney sure does now! On the cusp of getting everything she has been working toward, she starts to question just what or is that who she really does want.
This is a very well-written book with lots of wit and humor. Not as strong in the paranormal aspects as was featured in the anthology I read but still sooo very, very good!

I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book I received via NetGalley.

Sydney may be all grown up now. But still she feels like the former plain, homely nerd, that she was back in high school. But gone are the thick glasses and braces and even she has to admit she has turned out quite well. But a chance encounter with her former tutoree, football team all-star, Levi Barrett and she is right back to being that shy, tongue-tied, girl!

At the CPC Sydney has a new crush on the ex-baseball player Chip (can we see a pattern?). She decides that getting Chip as her boyfriend might be the advantage he needs to break into the TV side of CPC. Enlisting Levi as HER tutor this time around, Sydney sets out to snare her man!

Levi injured himself at college and lost the scholarship and the only pride that his father had him. Now at Coastal Properties he’s out to redevelop CPC. He might be hell-bent on making the deal but is he willing to do anything to get it? Can he really help Syd to become the sportscaster magnet she wants to be?

OMW you know sometimes you just need to switch off your brain and go with chuckles. You can tell pretty much from the get-go what’s going to happen but you go for the ride anyway cos Levi and Syd are just so sweet. I totally enjoyed hating Levi’s beatch of an ex – talk about Mean Girl Reincarnated!