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Summary: Cute Modern Day Fairy Tale
Review: Maggie the cat has one wish: she wants to become a woman so that her owner, Nicholas, will love her as much as she loves him. Time is running out. Nick is engaged to Angela, the "Ice Queen" according to his sister and best friend. They don't love each other, but the marriage will be a solid business alliance. Angela's father's business is Nick's biggest client. Old Tom, the one-eyed patriarch of Maggie the cat's clan, grants Maggie's wish to become a woman. However, as with all good spells, there are conditions. Maggie will only be a woman at night (she'll revert to feline status during daylight hours) and she only has one week to get Nick to tell her he loves her. If Nick fails to tell Maggie he loves her, she'll revert to her former furry self. Imagine Nick's suprise when he opens his front door to a beautiful naked woman. She seems to be stalking him. Her kisses are wonderful. So wonderful, that he runs out of the house and down the street to his best friend's house for the night. What follows is a really sweet (and sexy) love story about the importance of family, integrity and love. Maggie's delight in the world outside Nick's house results in his rediscovering it himself, as well as his falling in love with her (of course). One caveat: you really must suspend disbelief in order to enjoy this sweet love story. Those looking for realism are not going to find it in this book. But for the rest of us who loved fairy tales as little girls, this book is an excellent read.
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Summary: Cute Modern Day Fairy Tale
Review: Maggie the cat has one wish: she wants to become a woman so that her owner, Nicholas, will love her as much as she loves him. Time is running out. Nick is engaged to Angela, the "Ice Queen" according to his sister and best friend. They don't love each other, but the marriage will be a solid business alliance. Angela's father's business is Nick's biggest client. Old Tom, the one-eyed patriarch of Maggie the cat's clan, grants Maggie's wish to become a woman. However, as with all good spells, there are conditions. Maggie will only be a woman at night (she'll revert to feline status during daylight hours) and she only has one week to get Nick to tell her he loves her. If Nick fails to tell Maggie he loves her, she'll revert to her former furry self. Imagine Nick's suprise when he opens his front door to a beautiful naked woman. She seems to be stalking him. Her kisses are wonderful. So wonderful, that he runs out of the house and down the street to his best friend's house for the night. What follows is a really sweet (and sexy) love story about the importance of family, integrity and love. Maggie's delight in the world outside Nick's house results in his rediscovering it himself, as well as his falling in love with her (of course). One caveat: you really must suspend disbelief in order to enjoy this sweet love story. Those looking for realism are not going to find it in this book. But for the rest of us who loved fairy tales as little girls, this book is an excellent read.
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Summary: A purrfect fantasy romance
Review: Maggie the cat turned to the sage elder of her clan Old Tom for help. She loves her owner Nicholas Goodman and believes he reciprocates her feeling although he is engaged to that "unreal" female. She wants to turn human so that they can become complete. Old Tom explains the heavy cost to Maggie. She will give up eight lives if he helps her turn human. He also explains the price of the conversion. She has till All Hallows Eve, one week away, for Nicholas to state he loves her. During the day she will revert to her feline form while at night she will be human. Attorney Nicholas does not believe in magic or love although he cherishes and loves his sister and his cat. However, his belief system is nuked when a beautiful naked woman appears at his door. As the clock ticks on Maggie, her handicaps include not fully understanding human psychology and the daily physical conversion. Even as he begins to fall in love with Maggie, she knows that each second that passes without those three words from Nicholas means she is that much closer to losing it all. Julie Kenner spins a magical romance that will provide much pleasure to fans of something a bit different. Nicholas is a warm caring character. His sister Deena, her significant other Hoop, and Old Tom help propel the story line forward. However, what makes this tale worth reading is Maggie whose struggles with human vs. feline philosophy turns the reading experience into an enchanting spell. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: This Novel is the Cat¿s Meow!
Review: Maggie was totally in love with her perfect man, Nick Goodman. But there were just a few problems. First, straight-laced Nick didn't believe in magic. And he was engaged to marry a woman he wasn't in love with. And that Maggie was a cat didn't help matters any, either. But, with a little magic on her side, she was allowed one week of nights as a human woman to convince Nick to admit he loves her. By day, she would resume her feline form. But she must never tell Nick the truth about the spell or she would remain a cat forever. When Nick opened his door to a naked and very amorous Maggie, his world tilted sharply, and with it, his heart. And suddenly the high-paying partnership he'd been working for wasn't so important anymore. Nor was the business deal marriage he'd been ready to commit to. All that mattered was the mysterious Maggie and how she made him feel. But Could he admit to even himself that he loves her? And would it be too late when he finally did? Julie Kenner has created clever characters, wonderful humor, and sparkling dialogue that is sure to leave readers howling for more. Pounce on "The Cat's Fancy" and hold on tight because this novel is the cat's meow.
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Summary: A book for cat-lovers (no pun intended) everywhere
Review: Ms. Kenner has brought a fairy-tale to life. The Cat's Fancy is similar to The Little Mermaid, only the heroine is a cat. Maggie is so very well-written. Her grace, mannerism, even choice of food will have cat-owners looking at their own felines with suspicious eyes now. Nick starts out a little too starchy for his own good, but Maggie shows him how to live and how to love. Scene after scene will have you rolling on the floor as Maggie learns to cope in a very confusing world. Yet, never does she doubt Her Nicholas. Deenie and Hoop's secondary romance is fun to watch as well. Don't want to miss this.
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Summary: The Cat's Fancy
Review: Nicholas Goodman has his life set. He had a great job with a powerful law firm, was being groomed as the next junior partner, was engaged to the daughter of the firm's biggest client and had a beautiful black cat that loved him. He had everything he ever wanted or thought he wanted. After years of fighting custody hearings in court, being on welfare, and relying on the kindness of others until he graduated from law school, he had vowed that Deena would never want for anything ever again. And so what that Deena talked to fairies? Maggie, the cat, knew that Nicholas loved her and she knew that she loved him. She also knew that there was something terribly wrong in Nicholas' life right now. He wasn't any fun any more, he worked all the time and he had some uptight female he called his fiancée constantly complaining how Maggie didn't like her. She had to do something. This tale of magic, fantasy and unrequited sexual tension is delightful reading. Julie Kenner's magical tale of a rescued cat that longs to be a woman is funny, witty and unbelievably erotic. Her descriptions of Maggie's moves are so cat-like that the reader
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Summary: cute, but lacks something
Review: Nicholas Goodman, a successful attorney in a huge law firm, is engaged to the daughter of his biggest client. He's got an easy-going friend named Hoop, and an artist sister named Deena, both of whom hate his girlfriend. He's also got a cat named Maggie who is hopelessly in love with him. Maggie convinces Old Tom to change her into a human, at which time she knows Nicholas will declare his love for her in return and they will live happily ever after. The conditions of Maggie's transformation are this: she can only be human at night, she cannot tell Nicholas what she is, and Nicholas must tell her "I love you" before All Hallow's Eve. Of course, Nicholas does not tell Maggie he loves her the first time he sees her (naked on his doorstep), but he eventually finds himself entranced with the playful, beautiful, and mysterious Maggie.
This book is really pretty cute, and there are many scenes that'll make cat-lovers smile. Maggie's complete and utter adoration of Nicholas can get a little old after a while, however. While I was reading, I also thought of a lot of questions which, if I had really been drawn into the story, would probably not have occurred to me until later. For instance, how could everyone so easily accept every strange thing Maggie does without wondering about her more than they do? Nicholas just accepts that Maggie is completely gone during the day, without anyone ever seeing her go on the walks she is supposedly going on. As confused and naive as she can be, you'd think there would've been more worrying about her possibly getting hurt. At any rate, while this is not an excellent book, it is good for a quick, sweet read. Also, for those of you who are more interested in romantic tension than copious amounts of sex, this may be the book for you, since there is really only one sex scene and it's fairly vague.
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Summary: I'm now a Julie Kenner fan!
Review: Old Tom, a bit of magic, and true love transform Maggie the cat into Maggie the siren. Now, if only she can figure out how to persuade Nick Goodman that the perfectly manicured Angela with the high powered daddy is completely wrong for him, and Maggie the cat is perfectly right. Nick knows that falling for this green-eyed, mysterious beauty that has turned up on his doorstep nude and silent would be dangerous to his personal life, his career, and his mental health. He has everything, already. A high powered career. Money. A beautiful woman. He should be happy. So why doesn't he throw the mystery woman out instead of giving her free reign of his home? Angela certainly won't understand why he has a raven-haired beauty ensconced in his home--but only by night. During the day, Maggie is still a cat. Further, like a humorous twist on the Cinderella fairy tale, Maggie only has until All Hallow's Eve to gain Nick's love or become a cat again forever. Lying on Nick's lap, being stroked and petted didn't prepare Maggie for the torrent of emotion and physical stimulation human for would provide. Of course, pouncing on Nick as soon as she appeared on his doorstep might have been a bit disconcerting. She'd shown up on the doorstep, cat confident that he'd fall head over heals in love as soon as saw her. After all, as a cat she'd always gotten what she wanted. So she'll make him love her once Angela's out of the way, Nick will see reason, and they'll live happily-ever-after. Or will they? With a marvelous leap of imagination, Julie Kenner's THE CAT'S FANCY creates a magical world of dreams and love. With the grace of feline, the heart of a lion, and the passion of panther, the tale lures and beguiles the reader with its rich imagination and humor. I confess this romance is a fun read, and I found myself giggling and crossing my fingers for Maggie the cat from the first page. THE CAT'S FANCY is definitely the cat's meow.
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Summary: Not My Fancy
Review: The Cat's Fancy had potential, lot's of it, but it was never used. Although the whole idea was original and cute it wasn't developed nearly as much as it could have been. There could have been more depth to the characters and there could have been better scenes and it could have been better written. It's too bad that such a good idea for a book was never completely developed into what could have been a really bestseller.
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Summary: Cute, tame, weak
Review: The male is a dope and the cat/woman transformation doesn't make you care or believe it might happen. Tolerable writing.
The one love scene at the end of the book doesn't make it worth carrying around the outrageous cover!
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