Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

She was wearing a beige cardigan over a pale aqua shirt-dress and crimson trainers, and a white canvas bag. Also after the first story the newness of the premise starts to wear off (despite some arbitrary rule changes all of the sudden) and things like the weirdly specific descriptions of people, focussed solely on the colour of their clothes, started to catch my eye.Ī woman entered the cafe alone. Not to be mistaken, the concept is nice, but the execution sloppy. Would make a fine Netflix series, but as a book did not work for me And an independent woman learns that the secret to happiness is paying heads to her family’s wishes and giving up her own business.įourthly and lastly we have a woman ignoring health risks and being praised for that. While in the third story a man thinks of a gynecologist as a woman’s domain, where no man should venture. This story did have heart and I am not going say much negative about this one. In the second story a women just naturally sees herself as a nurse for her husband and is treated quite unappreciatively by him. I mean the geek boyfriend of a stunningly beautiful girl gets a job in the US (with a game studio of all things) and then his career is in her mind suddenly more accomplished than hers? She works in medical engineering for a listed firm she is a manager and can supposedly speak 6 languages, but can’t even normally articulate her needs and opinion to him apparently? And then she realizes that happiness lies on waiting for her non-communicative boyfriend to return. The first story feels so old fashioned, with a girl crying over being left by a guy and this just continues. To kick off in respect to my last sentence I mean the following:

The underlying messaging that grated on me

And the underlying morale of the four stories is basically highly conservative in my opinion. Despite a tantalizing premise the execution of time travel with ever added on new rules is sloppy.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi