Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartfelt Novel Exploring Regret, Redemption and Closure From a Magical Café (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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Readers say *Before the Coffee Gets Cold* is beautifully written and emotionally powerful, with many finding the stories heartbreaking “what if” momen...
4 🌟 I was a bit confused starting this book as I didn't realize it was 4 different interconnected short stories. I think it may have lost a little something in translation. It was repetitive in stating the rules.. Even within a story to the point of being a bit annoying. I did get teary eyed in the 2nd and 4th story. The overall theme of the stories were easy to get, even if the telling of them fell a little flat. I also think the culture difference between the author and myself led to some of the phrasing and tone of passages to just be odd for me.
Ok, I’m going to be an outlier on this one. It most likely has more to do with why short stories are not my goto genre – there is just not enough meat to the story to make it interesting enough for my liking. This one was no exception. It took me a long time to finish because I kept setting it aside to read something else more interesting. This one has been the longest 227pgs I’ve ever read.
Four customers visit the legendary Japanese coffee shop in hopes of traveling back in time to right some wrong by changing the past knowing full well that it won’t change the present. The first two stories, The Lovers and The Husband and the Wife, were flat out boring and had me thinking of DNFing the book. However, I decided to just set it aside and read something else, or as it turned out, three other books before getting around to picking this one back up.
Fortunately, the third and fourth stories, The Sisters and The Mother and Child, basically saved this book from a dismal 1star rating. At this point, I’m looking at an overall rating of 2.2 that I will round down to a 2star review.
Four customers visit the legendary Japanese coffee shop in hopes of traveling back in time to right some wrong by changing the past knowing full well that it won’t change the present. The first two stories, The Lovers and The Husband and the Wife, were flat out boring and had me thinking of DNFing the book. However, I decided to just set it aside and read something else, or as it turned out, three other books before getting around to picking this one back up.
Fortunately, the third and fourth stories, The Sisters and The Mother and Child, basically saved this book from a dismal 1star rating. At this point, I’m looking at an overall rating of 2.2 that I will round down to a 2star review.
a short and very memorable & emotional book. I'm going to be honest and say that I didn't fully understand everything i was reading but every story genuinely was so heartbreaking to read and something that I will definitely think about often as like big 'what if' moments. I think this book did very well in simplicity while remaining impactful liek the stories werent like groundbreaking shattering tales, but like normal lives experiencing grief and lossthat they can't control but learn from and thast such a good way to see life, i do beleive everything happens for a reason and every moment good or bad teaches u something for the future.