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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartwarming Novel of Time Travel, Magical Realism and the Power of Healing (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, 1)

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

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272 pages

Average rating: 6.66

837 RATINGS

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57 REVIEWS

Community Reviews

blewballoon
Nov 21, 2024
6/10 stars
I was really looking forward to this, but I ended up disappointed. I listened to this on audiobook and I don't think that helped. The translated prose is extremely redundant and clunky.

We had to hear the rules about time travel at least 5 times, but it felt like 50.
For an already short book, it feels like it could have been so much shorter. The characters felt like one-dimensional cliches and

each trip to the past resulted in the most predictable outcome. I don't mind things being predictable in general, but there was so little substance to make it worth reading. I love the idea of the premise, but it felt like a drag the entire time.

Mildly disappointed there is no cat in the book despite there being one on the cover.
BellaElena
Nov 17, 2024
5/10 stars
I love the idea but I just didn’t really connect with the characters
Dragonwood
Nov 16, 2024
4/10 stars
Torturous! IMO does not translate well. Like listening to the audio of a Godzilla movie…
Timka
Nov 02, 2024
5/10 stars
Repetitions for the sake of repetitions hurt this otherwise intriguing premise.
Tamrat
Oct 28, 2024
8/10 stars
Such a fun read ... Customers enter a small coffee shop in Tokyo and can be transported to the past or future but there are rules. The book tells stories of the ones that choose to travel in time

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