Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Angelina | Howell High School, Grade 11

Rating: ***

This story is set in a tiny Tokyo café where time travel is possible. Characters take turns sitting in the chair that lets a person to travel back in time, but the catch is you can only travel for the amount of time it takes a cup of coffee to cool down.

This novel is a fun read with many complications, twists, and turns. This book is split into 4 stories, each chapter becoming increasingly more interesting. This story starts off slightly slow, but rapidly goes into depth as reading on. Although in the beginning I was not a big fan of the plot, as I read on I caught myself wanting to keep engaging in the book. A criticism I can give to this book is the people who you think are in the story as supporting characters actually become important characters and this shift is like a realization moment that we are all our own protagonists. This book is full of surprises and a fantasy that I have yet to see in any other book i've read before.