Thank you Netgalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for this ARC! I have read the first two books in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series and loved both so much, so I was super excited to get an ARC for the third book!

Book Review:

A special cafe exists in Tokyo that gives customers a chance to travel back in time or to visit the future. Another cafe, with the same opportunity, is also in Hakodate, where this book takes place. Before Your Memory Fades follows four new customers that want to use the special cafe's time-traveling opportunity, even if it means the present won't change no matter what they do in the past or future.

This book made me tear up just like the first two books did. Kawaguchi is an incredible story-teller that truly makes you feel for the characters and their situations. Before Your Memory fades is heartbreakingly beautiful and makes you wonder if you would want to time-travel, even for a short time, knowing that nothing will change in your present time. This book, and the whole Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, allows you to think about your life in a different way and maybe even gives you the courage to express how you feel to others before the opportunity is missed.

As always, Kawaguchi has written heart-breaking stories of lovers, relatives, friends that meet one another either in the past or in the future thanks to the little coffee shop that allows you to travel in time. I loved this one just like the other two. The aspect of having the "if it was the end of the world" questions throughout, really made a difference for me from the other books, as it asked the readers a series of questions in between the big "would you travel back in time or the future? I love Kawaguchi work!