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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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geekmom's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

This was a sweet and thoughtful story.

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vaekay's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a wonderful and enjoyable read... until the last section. Usually emotional and inspiring, I felt blindsided by the terrible understanding of female anatomy or pregnancy as well as what I perceived as multiple grammatical errors by the translator. I actually found the way they regarded Kei's pregnancy and coordinated death (to save her and Nagere's baby) to be absolutely ridiculous and the sort of fictitious bullshit that only a male author would dream of writing.

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leahgustafson's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I really loved the idea for this book—time travel, a touch of magic, set in a coffee shop…it should have been perfect! I did really like the short story format where the characters are loosely connected. This made it really easy to pick up, read a story, and put back down (especially while I was also reading other things).

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I found the first story about the lovers to be really annoying. I struggle with the miscommunication trope in general, and I really had a hard time with how the woman views herself within this relationship. I had to put this book down for a while after finishing this particular story, though I did eventually come back to it.

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I enjoyed the other stories a bit more. However, I did not feel a deep connection to any of the characters. The messages in the stories also seemed really traditional/old fashioned, and I didn’t always appreciate that.

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Ultimately, I’m disappointed this one didn’t work for me.

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larcadip's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective

5.0

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aroraback's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Simple love (not necessarily romantic) stories, all taking place in a given space. Super cute, and light (while simultaneously being heavy).

I love the formatting of 4 stories, that are individual while flowing into the next one.

Normally I’m not a fan of time travel, but my standard is there has to be rules that make some type of sense. And Before the Coffee Gets Cold delivers that haha.

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