Everyone's a Catgirl! Volume One

Who This Book Is For

Readers who want a catgirl isekai with real writing quality, genuine humor, and character relationships that develop naturally over time

Who This Book Is NOT For

Anyone expecting immediate explicit content, readers who need an overpowered MC from the start, or those with no patience for slow-burn romance

Our Review

The Setup

Matt Kelmer dies at the gym in the most undignified way possible and gets reincarnated by a goddess into Nyarlea — a world filled entirely with catgirls. Sounds like the setup for pure wish fulfillment, right? DoubleBlind immediately subverts that expectation. What Matt expected to be a harem fantasy paradise turns out to be a genuinely dangerous world where the monsters hit hard, Experience is scarce, and the catgirls are far more competent than he is.

The isekai premise is familiar, but the execution is not. Matt is weak. Not “humble but secretly chosen” weak — actually, genuinely underpowered. He has to rely on his catgirl companions to survive, which creates a dynamic you almost never see in this genre: the male lead is the one being protected, not the protector. It is a refreshing inversion that pays dividends across the entire first volume.

What Works

The writing quality is the standout. DoubleBlind writes at a level that most harem fantasy authors do not approach. The prose is clean, the pacing is deliberate, and the humor is genuinely funny — not “the author thinks this is funny” funny, but laugh-out-loud moments woven naturally into character interactions. The dialogue has rhythm and personality. If you have been wading through competent-but-bland writing in the litrpg harem space, this book will feel like a breath of fresh air.

Matt himself is a remarkable protagonist for this genre. His reluctance around the opposite sex is not played as a comedy gag but as genuine emotional insecurity, rooted in who he was before dying. He is flawed in relatable ways — anxious, self-doubting, occasionally paralyzed by his own feelings — and that vulnerability makes his growth arc compelling rather than formulaic. You root for him not because he is powerful but because he is trying.

The catgirl companions are charming in a way that goes beyond their character designs. DoubleBlind takes the time to build each relationship brick by brick. When Matt connects with one of his party members, it feels earned because you watched the trust develop. The monster girl element never overshadows the character work — the catgirl traits enhance personalities rather than replacing them.

What Doesn’t

The pacing is slow. For a LitRPG, the progression moves at a deliberate pace that will test readers who want faster escalation. Matt’s emotional insecurities, while well-written, can become repetitive over the course of an entire volume. The same anxiety that makes him relatable in chapter three can feel like a loop by chapter fifteen.

The mature content warning sets expectations that the book does not fully deliver on. Explicit scenes are less frequent than the marketing suggests, and readers looking for a catgirl harem with consistent heat will find the spice back-loaded. The early chapters are almost entirely focused on survival and character building.

Matt being genuinely underpowered is a smart narrative choice, but it can also be frustrating in the moment. Watching your protagonist get wrecked by fights that his companions handle easily is refreshing for a while, but impatient readers may want him to level up faster than the story allows.

The Heat

Spice level is a 3 out of 5. The intimate content is present but arrives later in the volume and is handled with more restraint than the “mature content” label implies. When the scenes do land, they carry genuine emotional weight because the relationships have been built up properly. This is not a book where the heat is the primary draw — it is more of an earned reward for readers who invest in the character arcs. If you need your catgirl harem books explicit and frequent from the start, manage your expectations accordingly.

Bottom Line

Everyone’s a Catgirl! Volume 1 is one of the best-written entries in the monster girl harem space on Kindle Unlimited. The writing quality, the humor, and the character work set it apart from the vast majority of isekai LitRPG harem books. Matt is a protagonist you genuinely care about, the catgirl companions feel like real people, and the world of Nyarlea has enough depth to sustain a long series. The cost of admission is patience — slow pacing, a genuinely weak MC, and spice that builds gradually. If you can give this book the time it asks for, it will reward you. This one earns an Editor’s Pick for proving that catgirl harem fiction can have real literary quality.

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