When Katie Met Cassidy

Camille Perri — 2022

"A film-ready rom-com about finding love when you least expect it."--Elle "My favorite romantic book of recent memory." --Emma Straub "The delightful, sexy, queer rom-com of the summer . . . [with] all the makings of a Nora Ephron classic." --Vogue *One of NPR's Best Books of 2018* *One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018* From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about two women who find their lives turned upside down by their unexpected chemistry. 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.

Reviews

Sarah Sammis@pussreboots

Apr 4, 2024

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri is a romance between two women lawyers. They meet on opposite sides of a negotiation with a sexual and professional tension that reminds me of Adam's Rib (1949). Katie has just broken up with her long time boyfriend, expecting a proposal, but getting dumped instead. She's never been interested in women before but there's something about Cassidy's butch confidence and her bespoke suits that gets under her skin. http://pussreboots.com/blog/2020/comm...

Izza@m0thermayi

Dec 9, 2022

2.75 stars | Oh-kay. I have a lot of things to say about this book (and you bet I will use Katie Cassidy gifs, I just have to). When I first came across it, I was super excited because there aren't a lot of f/f romances for adult out there and it was published by a big house which rarely happen. I had hopes! But damn, this book was a major disappointment (though I have to say that second half was better). This novel is full of stereotypes, the characters are flat and cliché and there's barely any development/growth, and the romance unfolds at the fucking speed of light. I had to suspend my disbelief in several occasions. I'm kinda shocked this is an own-voice novel because to me it reads like it's been written by a straight person, for straight people... Here are a few sentences that had me cringe so bad. "She had to be a lesbian. Which, after the weekend Katie had had, seemed so much easier than being straight." "She would make an attractive woman if she'd grow her hair out and change into a more feminine suit like Katie's." "Cassidy thought, Yes, because women were so much easier to intimidate than men." "According to her nametag, her name was Elizabeth, which struck Katie as an overtly feminine and queenly name for such a gender-neutral woman."