Before We Forget Kindness
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In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:
- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
- A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents
- A wife holding a child with no name . . .
They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.
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*Quick Note on Review Below: I haven't read any other books in this series.
This is an easy, sweet read presented in an easy, almost conversational style. I can see immediately how these stories connect with readers, and how easy it was for these books to find an audience. In this style, somewhat in the plot, and in the message, it reminded me a lot of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven".
Which leads me to some quick critiques: even though some of the stories carried an impact, I thought the moral was a little obvious and a little repetitive. Between the repetitive moral and the frequently repeated character and plot points from previous novels, the overall feeling was that, in a short book, even some of the stories, details, and whole pages were skippable. For this reason, I don't think any of the remaining books in this series are for me.
That being said, I did enjoy reading this book, was emotionally effected (affected?) at parts, and I would be interested in reading other books by this author outside of this series when the opportunity arises.
Series
5 primary booksBefore the Coffee Gets Cold is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and Geoffrey Trousselot.
