I liked this story even though it took me a bit to warm up to Adam. His past experiences shaped him, but I felt that he hung on too long to those feelings. I loved the instant heat between Dina and Adam, and how things worked out for them.

I received an ARC of this story through Goddess Fish Promotions, and this is my unsolicited review.

Ellen Cunningham is happy to play housemother for three younger college boys–it’s helping her keep the rent affordable while she’s back at school herself. But then the house’s owner shows up, and Reed Morgan is not impressed with the situation. Reed finds Ellen’s presence particularly problematic… Maybe because he likes her so much.

Apparently Mike that's who. But unfortunately for Mike what he does like is the owner of said cats.

I'm not honestly sure how anyone could manage to resist these adorable little faces...

at least until they grow up into this...

I mean seriously even I can understand that because that faces seriously say 'you cross me and I will end you.' Luckily for all, Mike is not going to be that easily deterred in his pursuit of the adorable Riley . But what remains to be seen is whether or not Riley is ready for the force of nature named Mike. But Mike is just that and with one look at Riley and how good Riley is with Charlie, Mike's adorable but precocious 4 year old nephew who is definitely a weak spot for Mike. Mike wants more and he will not be easily deterred in his pursuits. 

'Learning to Love Cats' is a cute, fast read at right around 50 pages. It's about how sometimes even when it doesn't look right, if it feels right than that's all that matters.

I loved the interaction between these two men it was filled with wit and light-hearted banter. I was definitely amused by Mike with his sheer determination to be with Riley in spite of all the obstacles and trust me, there was considerably more than a few oversized, fluffy cats to be dealt with when it came to obstacles.

Riley comes from a big family...10 boys. So try getting some privacy and get to know you time with all those prying sets of eyes around. It's not easy to say the least add to that the hectic pace of life on a farm/orchard with its long hectic days. And then mix in the fact that Mike has his own protective older sister to contend with and there's Charlie who you just don't want to turn your back on him and that all adds up to a fast, funny, sexy story with some ill advised tryst and kittens turning up in unexpected places.

I definitely would have loved for this story to be just a tiny bit longer (I really want to know if they ever caught that goat) but at the end of it all I was left having enjoyed my visit to the farm and smiling as these two men found their happily ever after as Mike learned to love Riley and cats in the process.

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An ARC of 'Learning To Love Cats' was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This is a relatively interesting and amusing book about how modern technology and modern culture have created a brave new world that we don't really understand how to navigate (and which could have all sorts of unintended consequences for us. However, the book suffers from a number of problems which make it not among the best books to examine this particular moment in human history (and there are a lot of these books).

First, Niedzviecki tries to give all the different things he covers one name: Peep. Obviously that didn't stick. And the problem is that he comes off as one of those undergrads who thinks they know everything, diagnosing all our problems under his rubric. Had he been successful, and other people had taken up his concept, maybe this wouldn't have bugged me so much. But given that not a single other soul calls this stuff "Peep," it's hard to get behind. (Think of "fark," which was a far more celebrated naming of an internet phenomenon, at least at the time.)

Second, and far more importantly, this book was published in 2008. And like all books dealing with new technology in our day and age, things have changed. A lot. The best example - of numerous examples throughout the book - is Twitter, where even its creators don't seem to fully understand where Twitter was headed. The author treats it as basically a tool for oversharing. But the author cites numerous websites that have dwindled in popularity or disappeared, and services with the same fates. So it makes it much harder to take his fears seriously, as much as I may sympathize.

And there's a lot more opinion here than fact. Studies are cited, experts interviewed, but so much of the book is the author's subjective fears about the future.

And these fears undercut the conclusion in which the author takes a far more optimistic tone, one which he barely adopts throughout the previous chapters.

That being said, there were still some decent insights and I wasn't bored.