Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

380 reviews

drybay's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Car accident, Grief, Terminal illness, and Dementia

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Medical content and Abortion

sissizc's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Car accident, and Death

serena_hien's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Car accident

bxnny's review

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Pregnancy

ahanky's review against another edition

hopeful reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Death, and Pregnancy

readbooksovermygrave's review

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Death, and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy

vbarsi's review

adventurous hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

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

3.25

Enjoyable to read, just a little cliche for my taste 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Dementia, Pregnancy, Car accident, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Death of parent

strewnsunlight's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Dementia

Moderate: Medical content, Death, Pregnancy, and Car accident

Minor: Grief and Alcoholism

jayvdw's review

emotional hopeful sad fast-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

3.5

I am quite divided in my opinion on this book. The book follows four short stories, all in chronological order. This is also the reason why I find this book hard to rate. 

The first story is not that much of interest and is mainly used to explain the magic and set the tone of the book. This works fine, but overall is not that interesting. As a result, I went into this book with mixed feelings.

The third and second stories were by far my favorite. These truly made me tear up and I truly felt the emotions of the moment. The stories were also nicely set up already in the previous stories and it felt like a natural next step in the timeline. These two stories were truly the best part of the book.

The last story was quite disappointing in my opinion. The ending was not bad, just lacklustered. The main motivation for this story came out of nowhere and was not set up like the previous two stories. I also felt like it was a little rushed and

I didn't like that Mimi and Kei almost didn't speak to each other. Especially Kei didn't just open her heart to Mimi, this was quite out of character for her. The book even acknowledges this by saying that Kei normally is very outspoken.

Finally, there are some other small things that I was not the biggest fan of. First of all, the names in the book are all quite similar and hard to differentiate. I understand that it's a non-English book and the names might have some deeper meaning behind them, but personally I found it quite annoying. Secondly, the magic went quite unutilized in the end. I hoped for some more interesting uses of the magic. Finally,

I wanted the final story to explain who the ghost was and how she got stuck there. I thought that the book was working towards this and it would have felt like a much more natural conclusion to the book.

Overall, I loved the second and third stories, but the other two stories were just okay and there are some smaller dislikes. The book was inspiring and a nice read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Death

Minor: Grief and Pregnancy

elledanie's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Medical content, Death of parent, and Car accident