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

emotional 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

4.75

Four short stories are woven together in a coffee shop. The shop gives an opportunity to perform a travel in time, though this isn’t a science-fiction novel but magic realism with much weight put on the relations between a number of people that we learn to know and like.