A review by a_picara
The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki

Did not finish book. Stopped at 39%.

This book started out great! A cute cat on a balcony, a bit of the uncanny and a down-on-her-luck protagonist. She meets a stranger who sets her on the path of finding the full moon coffee shop, and then there are cat-people-deities who are at first wonderfully silly and delightful. Then the book turns into men explaining to women their actions and feelings. And there's a really long dive into astrology. The book devolves and starts to feel like you're reading some conspiracy from reddit about how the stars determine all human life. It removes all human agency and the protagonist is just instantly convinced. The book also wants to comment on writing, but all the opinions disregard actual technical skill at writing and just blames audience taste and THE STARS for the success or failure of written works.