Even her romance with Tom Markham, the AD who wants to put Todd’s dealer behind bars, smacks of a misguided hippie-dipstick “Career is bad for you, woman!” angle.

Mac also realizes that her cat Nefertiti (or Titi for short) can now speak to her, which means poor Mac is never going to hear the end of the whole “Woman, repent!” thing she’s being put through. Her family members turn out to be everyone’s favorite Republican Old-Moneyed Bastards and Bitches from hell. Ms Carmichael teaches Mac some humility by making Mac lose her job and have to live in a trailer and work at McDonald’s. She wakes up with amnesia, which makes her client Todd Harmon pretty happy as Mac had discovered evidence incriminating the rock star in a drug dealing which she is trying to defend Todd against in court and she’s really wavering towards turning the evidence in.Īmnesia-stricken Mac then gets fly-swatted when she realizes that in her pre-amnesia days she was a spendthrift career-obsessed person which makes her a bad person in Romance Land. Our lawyer heroine McKenna Wright has nowhere to go but up, or so she believes until she discovers the law of gravity when her BMW goes off the cliff and right down the beautiful rocky hillsides of Sedona, Arizona. The Cat’s Meow has a talking cat, amnesia, and wacky animal-lovers but the end result is an average tale equivalent to a middle-of-the-road daytime movie on the Disney channel rather than a genuinely amusing romantic caper.

The Cat's Meow by Emily Carmichael