Review:
Olive is an art school graduate who lives alone with her cat Henry, who she considers to be her best and only friend. One night, she wishes on a shooting star that Henry could hang out with her like a person. When she wakes up, Henry has become a human-sized catboy.
Henry is definitely still more cat than human, even though he can now talk, which leads to occasional weird moments. Olive is kind of put off by the fact that he seems better at socializing than she is (he immediately becomes friends with Dixie, who Olive went to school with and dislikes). Still, Olive and Henry get along fairly well, and Henry prompts Olive to make some changes in her life, like actually getting furniture. It doesn't hurt that Henry somehow makes more walking dogs than Olive does trying to sell her artwork.
I was expecting to like this one a lot more than I actually did. The cover art is fluffy and cute, and I thought the story would be equally so. I think it was trying to be, but it didn't quite hit the mark for me and ended up feeling a bit too weird. Did we really need a page in which Henry tried to get the hang of peeing outside? And how did Henry make so much money just walking dogs??
The artwork was cute enough, and I enjoyed Henry's many outfits. This wasn't bad, exactly, just occasionally somewhat off-putting.
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