𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨 - 𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒅

 

𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤'𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒅.

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍, 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏, 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚.

𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝑻𝒐𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒌𝒂𝒛𝒖 𝑲𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒊.

"𝐴𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒."

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞: In Tokyo, there's a café existing for a hundred years which is providing peoples the opportunity to go back to the time or go to the future. But for this startling amusement, one must endure the tremendous rules and consequences. One must follow them thoroughly. If they don't follow the rules while traveling, they have to bear the ultimate deadly consequences. Moreover, if one go back to past or go to future, there's no way to change the ongoing present. Even if they can't bring a person from his death in present from future. It's the scariest rule. This book has four different astonishing story in that café occurred in their journey. The four tale of their life and journey through the time. In order to travel, they must seat in a particular seat and come back from the past or future in present time before their coffee on the table gets fully cold. If they don't come back from the time before the coffee gets cold, the consequence is to live as a ghostly sould over dead body in that café forever.

𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨: Fumiko is an independent woman who loved her boyfriend so much that she couldn't bear of his immigration to America for his work and leaving her. Though Fumiko loved him and wanted to be with him, Fumiko determined to go back in time where Fumiko and her boyfriend Goro had chatted for the last time. Fumiko knew the rules well about the unchangeable present and not to move the particular seat. Fumiko couldn't stop Goro. But did acknowledge about a thing that Goro promised to her. To come back to him.

"𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒇𝒆", 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘎𝘰𝘳𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘍𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘬𝘰.

𝙃𝙪𝙨𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙞𝙛𝙚: Kohtake was a nurse and independent married woman with Fusagi. Due to the blatant and ineffable disease of Fusagi of forgetting everything gradually, Kohtake now was a forgotten wife to him. Which suffocated Kohtake heartedly. Fusagi loved Kohtake intimidatingly but his outrageous disease made him forgotten his beloved wife who was now taking care of him as a nurse. Now Kohtake found that Fusagi wanted to give a letter to his wife, the wife who's name was forgotten to him. So Kohtake made a decision to go back to the time when Fusagi was still remembering her. When Fusagi's disease hadn't gone so far. And that time, Fusagi suspected that it was really Kohtake who came back from time in the café to see him. Sipping her coffee full, Kohtake was seeing Fusagi for the last time who remembered her still. Her lover, husband, who soon would forget her in present. And there's only one chance to travel through time.

Did Kohtake find any letter from him and a satisfactory goodbye?

"𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒑, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅" 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘍𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘪, 𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦.

"𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆" 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘍𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘪.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨: Hirai was a don't-care type woman who led her life on her way and didn't listen to her family or her little beloved sister in order to lead her life by her own; ended up breaking ties with family and sister Kumi. But Kumi had her dream to run their family business and company with her big sis Hirai and she never got tired of being kicked out from Hirai's door each time she went to persuade her to come back home. Hirai's selfishness led Kumi to an accident and caused death of Kumi unknowingly which broke Hirai in the end and she determined to go back to the day when Kumi arrived to the café to meet Hirai. As soon as Hirai went to the time just hours ago of Kumi's indeed death, Hirai fall into desperation and frustration of loosing her in the present and still tried to persuade the death to leave Kumi, her sister, whom she ignored for years.

"𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏" 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘪 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳.

𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙: Kei, shop owner's wife, was a physically weak woman who was pregnant and had death threads of losing her life over giving the child birth. So she decided to meet her child in the future. But the future is uncertain. And In order to travel in time, she had to put a particular date and time and year. But the person whom she would meet, has to be in the café in that time. Kei went 15 years from the present on the date of her birthday and met her daughter shimmering as a moon who was saddened of losing her mother. The daughter thanked her mother for having her.

Kei could meet her child in the exact time in the future because when she got back, she told her husband and other poeples about the time and date. So they noted them and fixed everything for future, 15 years further. She could see her daughter by that, by a promise, that Kei was made by Kazu, the woman who run the café beside Kei's husband and shop owner Nagare.

"𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒔𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒚. 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖.. " 𝘒𝘰𝘩𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳.

𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: This book is a dramatic and incredulous pile of a tales in the café where I found vibes of both time travel fantasy and love for mother to child, lover to her lover, sister to her sister, wife to her husband. Each four stories are distinctive and prominent. The stories show us about the enchantment in life of LOVE. Fumiko almost did everything to have her lover beside her. Kohtake decided not to leave Fusagi and take care of him as wife forever even if he had forgotten her. Hirai regretted as hell when Kumi's dead and after the travel, she found the real reason for her life to live then; to accomplish the dreams of Kumi and to keep Kumi alive through her work. Kei was a mother who had given her life to live her child; travelled future with risks to meet and see her daughter before she dies.

All these happened because of 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆. And this book is more a life lesson book than a time travelling fantasy book. One of the best read to me in this year.

Kohtake and Fusagi's story was my most favourite story which gave me goosebumps and a mouthful crying. Then my favourite was Kei and her daughter's story which also broke my heart in the end.

𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬:

• Kazu

• Nagare

• Fumiko

• Fusagi

• Kohtake

• Kei

• Hirai

• Kumi

• Goro

• Miki