Before Your Memory Fades

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The characters are still really loveable, each part is paced really well, creating an attachment to each person going back through time, whilst still not feeling slow at all. Plus, it gives page time to Sachi, a very inquisitive young girl who has just learned how to pour the magical coffee that sends someone into the past. I loved how he built his characters, so that each were distinctive, even just by how they spoke or how they were described. The entire café interior was tinted orange by the sun setting in the sky, which created the mood of a faraway land, making it look like taking you back in time is possible. Lastly, time travel fiction is always so fascinating - the element of it here is by far my favourite.

The plot was fragmented into 4 episodic tales with each reflected the same slice-of-life theme like the previous instalments; an affecting journey on resentment, loneliness, loss love, grief and late confession.The Daughter", the first story was my favourite ( 5 stars), an interesting twist to how that photo was taken! However, unlike the first two books of the series which were set in Café Funiculi Funicula in Tokyo, we meet Nagare and Kazu along with her seven-year-old daughter Sachi at Café Donna Donna in Hakodate.

The four stories again make us reflect on life ,live and death and the joys and tragedies that effect all of us .And I really wanted to hear more about the ghost's story - I hope it comes in the fourth installment, which I've just found out has been released but not translated to english. Among some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister, and a lover, each with something they wish they had said differently. It is both beautiful and easy to read, has amazing prose and sentence structure whilst still being simple to comprehend.