A review by efram
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

5.0

Before the Coffee Gets Cold's rate of hot-steaming five stars reveal my warm and intense recommendation for the book. This should be read by everyone - reader or not, simply because time is one of the most inevitable and essential factor that affects every aspects of life. My strong recommendation for this book directs to children for they are the ones with the most time to spend, more moments to create and to experience.

The strengths of the book are its magical realism display - magnificently painting every chapter until the very end, vivid and splendid setting of scenes, pleasant and soothing writing style, and the brilliant division of four stories converging into a breathtaking grand ending. Probably the only weakness of the book is the lack of depth within the main character, though this did not affect the overall brilliance of the plot.