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A review by sannesbooks
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
These are 4 different tales of 4 different guests of the cafe. The cafe can brings you back in time or to the future, but the person must go back before the coffee gets cold. Mind that this is more of a literary fiction / contemporary than a sci-fi or fantasy type of story before going in. The first story wasn't original, but it was okey. With the last one I couldn't really understand the way of thinking of that character, but maybe that is because I am not a parent (to be).
The second one made me cry and the third one made me tear up. This is prove to me of how attached the writer makes you feel to the characters. I love some of the characters and the atmosphere was great. I could really visualise the cafe.
The writer writes everything very simple, almost child-like. It felt kind of like a children's story, which you need to get wiser from. It has a clear simple message and sometimes we don't need more than that from a story.
He writes down every feeling that a character has, which makes you really get into the headspace of that character. However, this sometimes gets annoying, there is a fine line between it getting annoying and overexplained and it being useful to the story. The rules of the cafe also get overexplained in my opinion.
Overall a simple and short but beautiful book, so I am definitely reading going to pick up the next book as well.
The second one made me cry and the third one made me tear up. This is prove to me of how attached the writer makes you feel to the characters. I love some of the characters and the atmosphere was great. I could really visualise the cafe.
The writer writes everything very simple, almost child-like. It felt kind of like a children's story, which you need to get wiser from. It has a clear simple message and sometimes we don't need more than that from a story.
He writes down every feeling that a character has, which makes you really get into the headspace of that character. However, this sometimes gets annoying, there is a fine line between it getting annoying and overexplained and it being useful to the story. The rules of the cafe also get overexplained in my opinion.
Overall a simple and short but beautiful book, so I am definitely reading going to pick up the next book as well.