This book was given to me as an arc from netgalley. My review is 100% honest and my own opinion.

This story was interesting. The best way I can describe my feelings of reading this book is as if I was tandem reading two books at once. One book that is about a wholesome lady who loves cats. She is trying to save and take care of a feral cat colony. The second being a risque erotic strong woman who worked as a sex worker to help provide for her family. Surprisingly these two women are one and the same. But it seems like the book has two different plot lines smooshed together. At some times it was difficult to read because of the time jump where she was working then jump to the cat rescuing.

I did appreciate the author's positive view of a sex worker. How she wrote the character didn't make it feel like it was meant to be derogatory. With this book it had its positives and negatives but in the whole it was an okay book. Was I confused some of the time? Yes. Did I enjoy reading it? Also yes. I'm curious if the author continues the story in a series. I may look at other works from this author in the future.

I hadn't realised until the very end that this book is actually a memoir. Cat has two lives, call girl by day which allows her to pay her sister through University and care for feral cats by night.

It's a great story, day in the life of. Secret diary of a call girl mixed with a street cat named Bob. I would have loved to have read more about the Australia trip. It was a little abrupt, arrived, showed around and then next chapter on holiday with Mr Gold but aside from that I think it was a good read. I would read more, I'd love to know if she sets up her own business and what happens with Mr Gold.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book for an honest review.

This was an average book for me. I found it to kk d of be all over the place with not too much of a major plot. I was looking for a little bit more.

Cat English is an incredibly good call girl that is earning money to put her sister through law school. She also needs the money to save hundreds of feral and stray cats. This is a real-life story of the woman who is passionate about taking care of her sister and the stray cats of the city.

I enjoyed some parts of this book but it very much read as two separate books, one describes the amazing work that ‘Cat’ does rescuing and caring for stray and feral cats. The other side of the book is about how she funds her sisters uni degree by working in a brothel. It left me with a lot of unanswered questions and the two stories didn’t seem to flow together very well.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Incredible! I never would have thought that call girls and feral cat rescuing would go together in the same book nevermind be a fantastic combo!
What I love is that Cat is a strong woman who knows exactly what she is doing and why. This isn't the memoir of a woman forced into the job or desperate to earn money for drugs or anything like that, she's a woman who has made an informed career choice. The fact that she spends so much money on rescuing and caring for feral cats is crazy to me but each to their own. And I think it just shows a real down to earth, normal side of Cat, which is the complete opposite to her working persona.
Some of the things that she gets up to with clients were just..... wow! And some were..... yuck ha ha ha....
Anyway, I highly recommend Briefly Yours to anyone interested in understanding the life of a call girl, as long as you can hack some explicit descriptions.

I was disappointed in this book.

I was very interested in the subject matter, but somehow the whole thing just felt like a big mess to me.

Pacing was off and writing was all over the place.

I did not finish.

A fascinating insight into a life many of us don't actually experience. If you're intrigued by the cat part (I'm not really) or the sex work (yes), then you'll find something in this book for you! Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I would rate this book 3 1/2 stars out of five.

The Author Cat English will be considered by some who read this as a crazy cat lady or a cat savior by others but you will have to read this and decide. Cat lives and works in England she was a worker in the retail industry but was constantly struggling with money, having enough to pay the bills and help her family and in particular a sister who is going to school to a lawyer ( In England called a Barrister)
After a product kickoff she realizes that she can use her sexuality to get places. The author goes to work at the Palace Lounge in her words one of the most famous massage parlors in England. Working her first night at the brothel she held more money in here hand then she had ever had before. According to the author this kind of money would take away her fears of living check to check and still going backwards and she would be able to help sister so she could focus only on her studies. She mentions that she went into this type of work not because of abuse, an addiction or bad up bringing she claimed to enjoy this work and even at times get pleasure from it. As you will see she finds another need for the money she makes as she becomes the savior of feral and stray cats with over 60 she looks after with everything from food, housing, vet procedures and most anything she can to make their life a little more comfortable. She mentions that she did not having any real issues with this type of work with a night that she could see over 20 clients with nicknames she gave them such as Dog Collar Man. Be fore warned that there are parts that are graphic. Overall this was interesting read about a keeper of the cats.

With steamy sex scenes, peculiar punters, feisty farmers and cute cats... Briefly Yours is an explosive behind-the-scenes account of Cat English's life: by day as a sexy call-girl and by night as a cat rescuer! Loved, loved this book. It totally blew my mind. From beginning to end it was a thrill ride.

This book is extremely well written and I like the fact that there is a back story to the escort side of cat. The reason why she does what she does. As a cat lover myself I can see why she became an escort to help the stray and feral cats. Some of the men who come to visit cat are a real eye opener and not something you expect to read about but it is written in such a good way. Definitely a page turner.

I actually really loved this, I love that Cat is a real person with real stories, I was rooting for her to make that money. The parlour scenes had me swooning, sweating, cringing and a couple of times slightly concerned. I want another book, I want to know what happens next! I have so many questions about Mr Gold, the boyfriend. Did he ever find out? Did they marry? How did you meet?

I wanted to love this book, I really did. I was rooting for our protagonist before I even opened the cover!
Cat is a call girl by day and a cat rescuer by night. I loved the initial story of her working to save feral and stray cats and pay for her sisters law degree. I wanted to love her and her cause but between the writing and the voice the story is told through I found myself rolling my eyes and ultimately by the end of the book I was done with her.
Oddly enough for a sex worker, she did not come across very sex positive. There was a lot of hypocrisy in her narrative. She constantly hated on the married men that came to visit her claiming they were the scum of the earth, but then if any woman ever judged her, her first thought is 'whatever I've probably slept with your husband'.
Then the time line was just all over the place. There is discussion of her boyfriend 'Mr. Gold' who is jealous, controlling and she has to lie to about her job to keep him happy. Halfway through the book it appears as though she quits her retail job to come back to being a call-girl, thus ending her relationship. Then a few chapters later she's talking about lying to him again as if that whole chunk of their relationship never happened??
The writing was clunky and weirdly immature for such a graphic book. Overall, not a book I will remember fondly.

DNF @ 55%

This book has two story lines which read really differently and are somewhat seperate from each other.

One story line is about Cat rescuing cats. While I truly think she does an amazing job and I highly respect her for that I found this pretty repetetive and quickly started skimming these parts.

The other story line about Cat doing sex work was way more entertaining: She describes different clients and her experience with them. My problem with this part is that I was missing an arc. It was more one little story after another and I was not invested is what is happening next.

I enjoyed this book and the message behind it. It should come with a little bit of a warning in that the author works as a prostitute and her life working in a parlour is portrayed quite graphically. If you are open-minded then read on… The author weaves her life working in the parlour with her desire to care for feral cats. The money that she makes goes to pay for their upkeep and also to put her sister through law school. There are some really difficult parts to read - when she finds the bodies of the two kittens and this set against the backdrop of giving pleasure to a whole range of men. The juxtaposition of men paying large sums of money for sex against the struggle of the barn cats over winter was not lost on me. What did come through very strongly was Cat’s caring disposition, how she named every cat as she wanted them to know that they had value. Truly at times I had a lump in my throat. She certainly explodes the myth of crazy, single cat lady. I was a little disappointed in the ending, it just finished a little too suddenly for me however I am glad that Cat got her dreams fulfilled.

I am in two minds about this book.
If it wasn't made clear, I wouldn't believe this to be a true story, or rather person. If it had been fiction, I would have said the character isn't quite believable, but as it is indeed a real person and story.

While the connection between the cat rescues and the job are made abundantly clear, it feels a little disjointed. If you are here to read about cats, then there is a lot of sex talk to get through, and vice versa if you want to read something a little dirty, you need to read through details of feral cats, vet visits and medication.

So while it was quite entertaining to read, it certainly was lacking structure.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
The two sides of Cat's life, being a sex worker and caring for feral cats, make for an interesting story. Cat clearly loves her sister and is very supportive of her. She is also a huge cat lover and cares tremendously about the feral cats she takes care of. Some of the bits and pieces of the story left me with unanswered questions so maybe there will be a sequel at some point, probably mostly focusing on her cats and her dreams of helping them.
The sex worker parts were interesting to read to see her perspective and the wide variety of clients she had.

Thank you to Ink and NetGalley for this ARC of Briefly Yours by Cat English.

I did not realize that this book was Erotica; I chose it for the intriguing memoir combination of a sex worker and cat rescuer.

I am fascinated by sex worker stories but more for the inside peek of how the operation works and what it feels like mentally to be a provider to so many men, and what the men are like. This book gave this along with the erotic details, so I did not miss any of the narrative by skipping over the graphics of the sex acts, of which there was a significant amount.

The book shows that Cat is a selfless woman, with her tireless and admirable efforts at helping feral cats and supporting her sister’s law education.

She is a success at the parlor at which she works, but still will occasionally educate the reader through her thoughts about the personal and social difficulty sex workers face: “And it can sound like the most ridiculous thing to say but if you think about it, we’re just like any girl in the ‘real world’; it’s merely a job.”

This book serves in part as Cat’s educating platforms for both sex work equality and feral cat rights.
“I wish [humans] understood that all animals need help, regardless of their status.”

Cat’s experience shows parallels of cultural prejudice against both sex workers and feral cats, both often treated as lower classes in their respective existences, but equally deserving of human respect and humane treatment.

I found Cat to be an intelligent, level-headed representative of sex workers and, and one deserving of praise for her work with wild animals.

Five stars.

I really loved this book. It brought sex work front and center in a way that wasn't demeaning or problematic and I loved that. It was such an interesting read going between Cat's work life and her real life with the cats and her sister and how important both of them were for her in terms of what she did for a living. It was heartwarming to read about how much she cared about the stray and feral cats and how hard she worked to give them what they needed. She's inspirational and very strong and helps to show that sex work is still work and a way to make a living. Highly recommend this.

I loved this story. The research definitely put in to building Cat's profession and background was shown. This story was very much more than just the sex scenes. Some sex scenes were expectantly spicy, some were not as glamorous. I appreciated that the author showed both sides of the profession.

I had a hard time linking the cat rescues and advocation with Cats storyline. It took me a while to get with it.

All in all, an entertainment book