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    Audiobook6 hours

    When Katie Met Cassidy

    Written by Camille Perri

    Narrated by Allyson Ryan

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women taking the reins—this time, when it comes to love, sex, and self-acceptance.

    When it comes to Cassidy, Katie can't think straight.

    Katie Daniels, a twenty-eight-year-old Kentucky transplant with a strong set of traditional values, has just been dumped by her fiancé when she finds herself seated across a negotiating table from native New Yorker Cassidy Price, a sexy, self-assured woman wearing a man's suit. At first neither of them knows what to make of the other, but soon their undeniable connection will bring into question everything each of them thought they knew about sex and love.

    When Katie Met Cassidy is a romantic comedy about gender and sexuality, and the importance of figuring out who we are in order to go after what we truly want. It's also a portrait of a high-drama subculture where barrooms may as well be bedrooms, and loyal friends fill in the spaces absent families leave behind. Katie's glimpse into this wild yet fiercely tightknit community begins to alter not only how she sees the larger world, but also where exactly she fits in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 19, 2018
    ISBN9780525590750
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    • 2/5
      This was pushing 2.5 stars but I rounded down because I just couldn't get behind the premise. It was a light, quick read, but there was no character development and the whole thing was a bit too fake. I understand the trepidation of a woman, just out of an engagement, but to immediately fall for another woman? There was just a lot missing.
    • 4/5
      “When Katie Met Cassidy” is a lesbian romance between 28 year old (straight? maybe) Katie and 30 year old Cassidy (she wears mens’ clothing, like everything). They are both attorneys and meet at a contract negotiation. This is a story that could easily be adapted for the first lesbian romance on one of those two hour made-for-TV romance movie channel presentations. The sex is rather un-graphic and even in the book most such scenes end in fade-to-black.There are minor little problems, issues, tears along the way and the story is a bit predictable but it does bounce along at a fairly good clip. It’s a nice distraction. The characters are fine, though Cassidy didn’t seem quite as real as Katie, but what do I know. Cassidy slowly morphs into, or is revealed to be soft in many ways despite a number of edges. Hmmm. There is a rather funny chapter involving a character nicknamed the Puerto Greekan. But there also is a very lame chapter about Katie buying her very first sex toy in a New York City shop. Along with some musings about “how does this gadget work?” there is also a sales assistant in a leather corset cracking a whip on the shop’s floor. It struck me as seeming more real had it been written fifty years ago. So a 3 ½ on LibraryThing, a 4.0 on Amazon.
    • 3/5
      Lovely romance.
    • 2/5
      I had read the first few chapters of this online and had high hopes for the rest of the book. Unfortunately, I found this book a bit harsh towards lesbian culture. It almost made them seem like vultures who are so desperate for sex that they'll swoop down on the first woman they see, even if they're straight. I'll give it the second star though for creating an interesting and unique character in Cassidy.
    • 4/5
      Fun coming-of-age and coming out story, but not very deep.
    • 3/5
      My delight that this book exists sharpens my disappointment that it wasn't a better read. The story is a romcom between two women in present day New York City. One is a lesbian, the other had never considered attraction to women until the events of the story. I *love* romcoms, and I wish there were more of them in book form. (I wish there were more of them in movie form too, darn it.) And I'm so happy to see a romcom between two women that foregrounds women's spaces, women's sexual desire, women's careers, and which puts all of that in the foreground as a matter of course, as it should be. When Katie Met Cassidy is highly readable (I tore through it in one afternoon), occasionally funny, and a nice kind of fluffy. Some of the scenes are pretty perfect and will stay with me, I'm sure. But there isn't much *story* to it. The obstacles (Katie thinks she's straight; Cassidy doesn't do relationships) melt away without much tension. A fight that threatens to separate them comes too late in the story and resolves too quickly to provide much narrative thrust. I don't feel like I know either character terribly well. The book just doesn't quite *do* much. On the strengths the book does exhibit, I will almost certainly check out more by Perri, but at the end of When Katie Met Cassidy, I was left wishing there was more there there.
    • 2/5
      Huge let down for me. Review to come.
    • 5/5
      This book was great and very hilarious!! Will read again!
    • 5/5
      A lovely story. Given the lack of lesbian romantic comedies, this certainly fills that hole
    • 5/5
      *Book received through Penguin Publishing's First To Read Program*

      I just finished this one and it's sort of hitting me that this is really how some adults come into and live in the LGBTQA community. It's making me realize that I, and a lot of queer people I know, have been lucky to have a support network fairly early. When Katie Met Cassidy is an amazing view into the life of two strong, female attorneys in New York City, discovering love and a new kind of lust while exploring what identity really means to each of them. It shows a different side of the NYC underground that many don't realize exists, while also looking in on some of the aspects of being a high-powered woman in a male-dominated field. Actual rating *4.75 stars*
    • 3/5
      When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
Publisher; G. P. Putnam's Sons
June 19th 2018
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"It's hard to be intimidated by a five-foot-two college kid wearing a flannel from Gap Kids". Katie has it all; a life of luxury, a career that quickly scaled the corporate ladder and a fiancé that is an accomplished art curator. Until said fiancé leaves her for her "friend" and she's met with a life she's unsure of. Enter Cassidy Price, a strong personality who seems very self aware and makes Katie question everything she thinks she knows about sexuality, queerness and love.
      
I wanted to love this book so much. While it was an easy read, I devoured it in a couple of hours, it was seemingly lacking something of importance. It took me a while to pinpoint exactly what was missing .... let me explain.
      
Katie is a straight girl, brought up in Kentucky. But that's about all we get of her background. Her first impression of Cassidy didn't sit well with me. Katie judged this woman on her appearance and was vastly crude in her thoughts about how "women" should dress and hold themselves. While I can appreciate the honesty from this character, I'm also left wondering how she can go from this thought process to being in love so quickly and without much thought.
      
Cassidy's character however felt a bit more authentic. How often gay women fall down the straight girl rabbit hole. We know we should, we know it ends, yet we find ourselves pining over them anyway. And it usually ends with a broken heart, or something of that nature.
      
This story held so much potential. There was room for tears and laughter, yet fell incredibly short. That said, it's not a terrible story. And again, a super easy read. But if you're looking for something exceptional, this isn't it.
      
I received a copy of this book from First to Read in an exchange for my honest review. These opinions are my own and in no way reflect those of the author, publisher or anyone involved in the making of this book.
    • 3/5
      Loved Perri's novel "The Asisistants" but this one was disappointing. I thought the story was silly and juvenile for women in their 30's.
    • 4/5
      This was a short and sweet queer romance that I read in two days. Katie is reeling after her fiancé, Paul Michael, has dumped her so she spends all her free time obsessing over work and drinking at home. While closing a big deal at work she encounters Cassidy. At first she assumes she is a man - but soon she is taken in by Cassidy's masculine and beautiful appearance. As the two find themselves crossing paths more often, Katie has to decide what her feelings are towards Cassidy. Cassidy is very open and proud about being a lesbian, but Katie only likes guys? Or does she? A romantic and honest look about trying to understand sexual attraction and be more authentic.
    • 2/5
      Huge let down for me. Review to come.