Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

6 reviews

xoemax's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Pregnancy, Death, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Abortion, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Medical content, Fatphobia, and Misogyny

sophtanda's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Car accident

isamelloc's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

The plot is very interesting and moving, but the reading is a bit clunky, maybe due to the translation. Still a good read!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

nojerama's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Self harm, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Abortion, Death, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Grief

kindra_demi's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

This book was such a comforting book to listen to. It definitely has some deeper/darker topics (including grief, loss, etc), but it still felt like a warm, reassuring hug. Especially considering I listened to the audio book.

I know there are still some complaints about how if you time travel but couldn't change the current time that you are living in, what's the point? But you could see that it was a moment something of a release. Almost like the characters could get off their chest what they needed. And as a reader, it was kind of a release for me too. I might not be able to say what I want to someone in my past or future, but I can feel the release those characters felt.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

yasminisntmail's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Throughout reading, I had the distinct feelimg that either 1) the translation/adaptation quality is poor, or 2) this work would've been better suited to a different medium. Not sure which one it was but a lot of passages had me feeling confused, or like I was missing some crucial info.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts