“Before We Forget Kindness” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

This is the latest book in the “Before the coffee gets cold” series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and I just finished reading it. I enjoy the series a whole lot but this one ended up being my least favorite out of the whole series. This one was harder for me to read and stay with it versus the others in the series. It almost felt like the author ran out of stuff to write by the time he made it to this one.

Synopsis: In the fifth book in the sensational 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.