Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

43 reviews

itsbumley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Car accident, and Alcohol

sarahb919's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Definitely an emotional book, although it doesn’t start out that way. Bit philosophical: Although you can’t change the past you can change yourself and do better moving forward. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

abnormal_shadow's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A chair eases 4 cafe employees minds and everyone cries.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Alcohol

elliebasta's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Car accident, and Abortion

xoemax's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident, Abortion, and Abandonment

Minor: Fatphobia, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

vaykay's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

4.0

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a wonderful and enjoyable read... until the last section. Usually emotional and inspiring, I felt blindsided by the terrible understanding of female anatomy or pregnancy as well as what I perceived as multiple grammatical errors by the translator. I actually found the way they regarded Kei's pregnancy and coordinated death (to save her and Nagere's baby) to be absolutely ridiculous and the sort of fictitious bullshit that only a male author would dream of writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Abortion, and Alcohol

glyza's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Never thought i’d cry my eyes out while reading this, looking forward to crying some more with the rest of this series :,]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

josiee's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

mercerhanau's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Fittingly, this book benefits from going back for a second visit. There are lots of subtle, beautiful interactions between characters that I didn’t fully appreciate the first time, but that hit harder and made more sense the second time. 

Give the time-travel mechanics some grace and you’ll have a better experience. Its both a cute story that tugs at heartstrings at times and a mental exercise in acceptance and releasing control of things that happened in the past.

3.5 stars overall: 3 for round one, 4 for round two.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Dementia, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

komiification's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, and Dementia

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol