Review: A romp with catnip and a fun feather
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2012
Who can resist a title like "Phone Kitten"? I couldn't - so I gave it a read. And was pleasantly surprised.  Emily is the everywoman with a twist.  Never feeling quite pretty enough, or thin enough or even quite right, as she says "a Kate Winslet in Gwyneth Paltrow casting".  We start the story where she is working in her dream location, a newspaper where she is betrayed and fired.  She needs to work, so a quick scan of the adverts bring her to an interview for a 900 number, a phone sex hotline.We watch her struggles with the duplicity of maintaining her normal life, and her "on call life", including finding a man, meeting a "client" who was murdered shortly thereafter, trying to track down the killer and facing off against a mafia boss, all while speaking in a voice that is a cross between a breathy sex kitten and Minnie Mouse.Written with a sense of humor and a real knack for seeing the 'coming of age' of a girl into a woman, full of confidence and style made this a welcome and read-right-through story.