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The Cat's Fancy (Time of Your Life)

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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.

This book is wonderful. I laughed so hard that I kept getting strange looks from people. Julie Kenner brings to life a wonderful fantasy about a man and his cat. Nicholas a big time lawyer has a cat named Maggie who he loves. Maggie loves him too but more than just as her owner. She loves him as a woman. So she asks the wise old one eyed tom to make her a woman so that Nicholas will love her back the same way. He grants the wish but there are conditions. She is only a woman at night and turns back into a cat during daylight. Also Nicholas must say he loves her by the end of Halloween in order for her to stay human, otherwise she will revert back to being a cat and remain a cat forever. She agrees and soon finds herself a beautiful woman, a naked woman on Nicholas's doorstep. When he answers the door she pounces on him, literally. He freaks and leaves for his best friends house. Hoop is a great secondary character and so is Deena, Nick's sister, I wished that their had been more to their story but maybe we can get a sequel. The story is very refreshing and makes one really believe that magic does exist. I loved the part about the kitty treats. Definately buy this book and reread it again and again.

It's not that often that I read a book that not only has me rolling on the floor, but seriously has me thinking about those "nine cat's lives........" especially since I have two cats myself! Maggie is a black cat who LOVES her attorney owner, Nicholas Goodman, and wants to save him from marrying his fiancee, Angela, who also happens to be his bosses daughter........Maggie begs Old Tom, a magical cat, into turning her into a human being..he agrees by making the condition that Nicholas must tell her outloud that he loves her, by Halloween which is one week away....also that she'll be a human only by night, and during daylight she'll be feline.... The antics are hysterically funny, including those by secondary characters, Deena (Nick's sister who can talk to fairies) and Hooper (Nick's best friend) Don't think this book is just a silly fairy-tale-like romance....Although it had me rolling on the floor, especially when Maggie, the human, is caught munching on a bag of cat crunchies, this book has much warmth and depth into human and feline behavior!! Just loved how Maggie learned to act like a human, by watching tv shows such as Jerry Springer and soap operas! Each and every one of you who loves a good romance, or just loves cats, has GOT to read this book....it will warm the cockles of your heart as you see the human Maggie trying to win the heart of her love using no guiles... A definite "comfort" read and a definite "keeper"...this is an author to watch..........just can't wait for her next book which deals with the heroine having "x-ray" vision.......I'm already chuckling!! If I could have rated this book 6 stars, I would have!

I ordered this book off Amazon after reading Aphrodite's kiss. Deena (in Aphrodite's kiss) keep's mentioning her brother's wife was a cat so I decided I should pick this book up and read it. i found it simply adorable. It was such a light hearted fun and fun read. I saw on her web site that she has another coming out based on a character from Aphrodite's Kiss. I can't wait to read that too. She is a great writer. if you haven't read this book yet... you are missing out. It is well worth reading.

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

I love cats, especially black cats. So I just HAD to read THE CAT'S FANCY by Julie Kenner, which is a paranormal romance about a black cat who falls in love with her human owner, Nicholas. The cat, Maggie, is granted human form - but she only has a week to earn Nicholas' love or else she loses him forever.

I enjoyed reading this book. It was fast-paced and fun, and it gave an interesting cat's eye view of the world. The author was very convincing in making us understand that Maggie, though a woman on the outside, was still a cat with cat's instincts. Also, secondary characters like Deena and Hoop were enjoyable additions who really livened up the story.

I had a couple issues, though. The whole explanation as to who Old Tom was and why Maggie had some human in her was glossed over big-time. So we never really learned how it was possible for Maggie to become human in the first place.

Also, I think the author was too convincing about the fact that Maggie was a cat, because I started to feel uncomfortable with the thought of Nicholas and Maggie hooking up. It seemed bizarre to me. I can't explain why. Maybe it was because Maggie was so innocent about everything. In some ways, she was almost child-like. Maybe that's what I was reacting to. I don't know.

Anyway, THE CAT'S FANCY was still entertaining and rather unique for a romance. It's definitely worth reading, especially if you like cats. Also, from what I understand, characters from this book appear in Kenner's paranormal romance series that begins with APHRODITE'S KISS. So you might want to read it, if you are interested in this author!

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.

This is a great book! I laughed and groaned my way through Maggie's trials and tribulations; while the PURRfect revenge she takes on Nick's stuffy girlfriend had me howling with laughter! I can highly recommend this, and so can my teenage daughter, who could hardly wait to grab it out of my hands when I was done. This book is definitely a keeper, and I can hardly wait for another book by this great author!

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.

What a delightful and original tale--or should I say tail? <G> THE CAT'S FANCY is seductive, outrageous, and witty. I thoroughly enjoyed the sensuality and the story itself. The romance was a challenge, but Kenner rose to the occasion and proved herself a master storyteller. Excellent work!