Before The Coffee Gets Cold contains four semi-separate stories set in a small basement cafe in Tokyo. This cafe is mostly like any other, except for the fact that people can, in a limited way, travel in time. I thought this was a really interesting premise, especially the time limit on traveling, and I'd heard many good things about this one, so I had high expectations.
I found it a little bit different to get into this book. The first story centred on a girl who didn't really interest me much at all, so I didn't really care about her reasons for travelling back into the past. However, after the first story we started seeing stories from the cafe regulars, which I was more interested in. I really hope that a future book will tell the story of the ghost, though, as I think that's the most interesting story to me