I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a sweet, short novel about a very special cafe in Tokyo that allows people to go back to their past. There are, however, three rules - you can only go back in the past to meet someone who has visited the cafe, you must sit in a particular seat in the cafe while doing so and you must drink your coffee during your time travel window before it gets cold.

This was a very sweet novel that's very much about the different characters who frequent the cafe almost every day, as well as the reasons why some people we meet decide to go back to the past. Family, love, and different types of loss are the main reasons behind people's decisions to time travel and we see them explored in different ways and a huge array of emotions felt by all of our characters during them.

There's definitely some bittersweet lessons in this story about not being able to change the true outcomes of our actions, and therefore perhaps living each moment as we would always want to and appreciating those who show us kindness and bring something special to our lives.

A very nice read for a rainy day, and perhaps the perfect book to read while drinking a hot beverage ;)