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The Ex-Boyfriend's Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee
What ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost—and wants to love again.
Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel.
So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty café. When she awakens, she’s eager to tell her story to anyone who will listen and pours her heart out to a curious manager and the sole other customer in the café, a Buddhist monk in training. As Momoko describes how she doted on her ex and how he loved her cooking, the manager decides to indulge her by allowing her to slip into the kitchen and cook up her former beau’s favorite a warm, delightful butter chicken curry.
As Momoko finishes telling her story, she realizes that this combination of cooking and sharing has stopped the flow of her constant tears. And the manager has a brilliant idea.
What if they started doing this regularly, inviting patrons to share stories about heartbreak while cooking dishes that held significance in their relationships? Thus, an unconventional therapy group, the “Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee,” is born.
Based on the author’s viral heartbreak story, this is a charming novel (with recipes) about a woman who uses the power of a warm meal to bring together the fellow lonely hearts in this small suburb of Tokyo.
Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel.
So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty café. When she awakens, she’s eager to tell her story to anyone who will listen and pours her heart out to a curious manager and the sole other customer in the café, a Buddhist monk in training. As Momoko describes how she doted on her ex and how he loved her cooking, the manager decides to indulge her by allowing her to slip into the kitchen and cook up her former beau’s favorite a warm, delightful butter chicken curry.
As Momoko finishes telling her story, she realizes that this combination of cooking and sharing has stopped the flow of her constant tears. And the manager has a brilliant idea.
What if they started doing this regularly, inviting patrons to share stories about heartbreak while cooking dishes that held significance in their relationships? Thus, an unconventional therapy group, the “Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee,” is born.
Based on the author’s viral heartbreak story, this is a charming novel (with recipes) about a woman who uses the power of a warm meal to bring together the fellow lonely hearts in this small suburb of Tokyo.
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First published December 7, 2023
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November 30, 2025
The premise was interesting, but the stories didn’t resonate with me. I didn’t relate to the characters and didn’t care what happened to them. I thought about DNF’ing this one, but it was short, so I persevered, hoping to be drawn in at some point. It didn’t happen for me with this book.
November 16, 2025
The pacing of the first chapter is a bit erratic as Kawashiro establishes the premise, but then The Ex-Boyfrind’s Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee settles into a cute episodic rhythm. For me, the best part is that each chapter includes the actual recipes, so you can make your own Ex-Boyfriend’s Favourite Butter Chicken Curry, So What If I’m High Maintenance Potato Salad, and so on. I personally am itching to try my hand at making the Red Flags Megastore Hamburger Steak 🤤
My full review of The Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee is up now on Keeping Up With The Penguins.
My full review of The Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee is up now on Keeping Up With The Penguins.
July 20, 2025
While I was intrigued by the concept of this book (women gathering for meetings at a cafe with their tales of and recipes for ex-boyfriends), ultimately, it was not for me. Unfortunately, I found the translation stilted and the recipes unappealing. I hope others have a different experience. Thank you to Crown Publishing for an advance uncorrected proof.
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September 29, 2025DNF. Thanks to Crown for a free copy of this book won through a Goodreads giveaway, but I could not finish this book and stopped reading on page 78.
January 24, 2026
Much enjoyable than I thought. The writing kind of hooked me and I liked how it was not entirely focusing on heartbreaks, grief and foods but also towards one’s self-discovery, friendship and community. Told in episodic narrative, I followed Momoko who gets dumped one night and found herself to waking sober up in a small, struggling Amayadori café owned by Iori. She shared her story with Iori and Hozumi, a young trainee monk who is a regular and cooked her ex’s favourite curry recipe that later spark an idea to Iori in starting The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee; a weekly gathering to help his café in getting more customers by inviting people to come and cook their heartbreaks recipes and share their stories.
The friendly interactions in between Momoko, Iori and Hozumi were so admirable and I loved how apart of tale on broken relationship, it also delved into stories of familial bonds, career stress and unrequited love. The food sounds yummy (with actual recipe tied to the story) and I liked how each go so sentimental with an intimate reason of how it was attached to their memories. My fav would be Kimura’s episode about missing the taste of his late wife’s onigiri, Hozumi and his mom’s pizza recipe also both Nagi’s hamburger steak and Momoko’s curry.
Loved the moments of realisation, acceptance and that buried resentment at the end of each episode, though with no high drama or twist in its exploration it was still a fairly reflective and uplifting read overall. Glad that I enjoyed it despite the mixed reviews on goodreads 🙌🏻
(thank you Pansing Distribution for the gifted review copy!)
The friendly interactions in between Momoko, Iori and Hozumi were so admirable and I loved how apart of tale on broken relationship, it also delved into stories of familial bonds, career stress and unrequited love. The food sounds yummy (with actual recipe tied to the story) and I liked how each go so sentimental with an intimate reason of how it was attached to their memories. My fav would be Kimura’s episode about missing the taste of his late wife’s onigiri, Hozumi and his mom’s pizza recipe also both Nagi’s hamburger steak and Momoko’s curry.
Loved the moments of realisation, acceptance and that buried resentment at the end of each episode, though with no high drama or twist in its exploration it was still a fairly reflective and uplifting read overall. Glad that I enjoyed it despite the mixed reviews on goodreads 🙌🏻
(thank you Pansing Distribution for the gifted review copy!)
August 21, 2025
I was so excited to get this book free from a Goodreads lottery. But I guess you get what you pay for. I tried so hard to like this book but after giving a few chapters, I just could not go on any longer. I would rather sit quietly and stare out the window of this train than read the book. Sorry, not sorry. Unreadable.
October 28, 2025
There are no actual funerals in this book, only metaphorical ones. Considering the state of most of the clients of the Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee, if there actually WERE funerals, there would be a LOT of them, the recently deceased would probably have died in some gruesome way, and this would be an entirely different kind of book.
Instead, it’s rather a lot like Before the Coffee Gets Cold, which shouldn’t be a surprise as the author of THIS book was discovered by the author of THAT book.
Although the seed for this story is true. Or at least true-ish. Also really, really relatable, because the only people who have not been dumped from a romantic relationship in their whole, entire lives are either under the age of 10 (crushes count!) or have never in those lives put themselves out there in any way at all.
Momoko has just been dumped by her boyfriend of FOUR years – at a love hotel which adds a whole lot of insult to the injury. She’s invested four years of her life to doing her damndest to be the woman she thinks he wants, instead of the person she actually is. And she’s been so damn patient with him, so busy trying to play the part she thinks she’s supposed to, that she’s made excuses for all the terrible, and terribly rude and neglectful, signals he’s been sending that he wants to break up with her because he wants her to take care of that for him.
Which is kind of how he’s been operating for years by that point.
So yes, he’s been an asshole, she’s been complicit in his assholery, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. Which doesn’t help her deal with the fact that he’s been the focus of her life for four years and now everything in her life reminds her of him – because she’s made her life be that way.
And now she has to deal with the fallout of her romantic relationship. And she has to reckon with the fact that her job is toxic and now that’s all she’s got.
Which is where the Funeral Committee comes in – but only after Momoko finds herself in a rundown cafe on a quiet Tokyo sidestreet, drunk and sobbing her heart out.
She knows she needs to make some changes. She needs to make a LOT of changes. And she needs time to process her grief and move on. More importantly, Momoko needs to remember who SHE is and what SHE wants, and be herself in the world instead of who anyone thinks she’s supposed to be – even herself.
The recipe, the truly excellent Butter Chicken Curry recipe she invented and made for her ex, is the start of her healing process. First she makes it for the cafe’s manager and one of the regulars – and they both literally eat it up because it’s WAY better than anything the cafe’s ever served.
But as she’s cooking, processing her grief and reclaiming her love for the recipe she invented, the three of them have a revelation. She can help others just like they are helping her. All she has to do is quit her toxic job, take over the kitchen at the cafe, and once a week meet with someone who needs the same kind of healing she did to cook the recipe that meant the most in the relationship that they are grieving and lay those emotions to rest. Just as Momoko is trying to do – even if her success at that endeavor can only be measured in nanometers – if that.
Escape Rating A-: Books like this one have become their own kind of thing, and The Ex-Broyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee is a terrific example of it. The format is fairly simple, a series of loosely connected short stories connected by a place or a theme or a circumstance or all of the above, with an overarching story or theme about that connection.
In this particular case, the place is the Amayadori Cafe, the obvious theme is healing after a loss or a break-up, but mostly break-ups, and the connecting tissue is the “Funeral Committee”. In the case of this particular story, there’s also a less obvious theme about the masks that people wear, and just how difficult it is to set those masks aside and be authentic. For Momoko, and for the other women who tell their stories to the “committee” there’s an even deeper element about just how pervasive and restrictive the masks that women feel compelled to wear can be, and the way those masks are formed both by external pressure and internal adoption of that pressure.
Unlike many of the other books similar to this one, Momoko, the cafe manager Iori and the monk-in-training/regular customer Hozumi who becomes part of their inner circle, become a big part of each person’s story – and each other’s – instead of being confined to the background and/or small parts in smaller interconnecting bits between the stories. So this one feels more like a novel than many of the other books of this type.
Because these stories are all wrapped around loss, this definitely qualifies as “sad fluff”. Most of the stories are not about finding happiness. Either they are about finding closure – or they are focused on learning to live with the pain. And each of the three has their own tale and RECIPE to add to the committee’s archives. Their own stories don’t and in fact can’t lead to happy ever afters, at least not in the near term, but they can, and do, help each other deal with their respective losses. As all the best families do. Because that’s what they are, a found family.
Of all of the books of this type I’ve read, from Before the Coffee Gets Cold to Monday’s The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park, the book that this reminds me of the most is The Kamogawa Food Detectives, which is also one of my favorites in the genre. It’s not just that both are based around food, and it’s not even that neither includes so much as a whiff of magic. Instead it’s that the through story in both does a terrific job of keeping the linking team as an integral part of all the stories and that Momoko does specifically recreate a recipe for one of their clients, just as the ‘food detectives’ do.
I did like this one better than I did Hinode Park, because ALL of the stories in this novel, by the nature of the Funeral Committee, are centered on adult problems and adult relationships. It’s not that Hinode Park wasn’t good and wasn’t a good book for the mood I was in, but this one just had characters whose shoes I could slip into better. (Everyone’s reading mileage probably varies from each other’s on this particular point.)
All of that being said, The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee isn’t just a cute title. It’s a charming book that plucks at the reader’s emotions even as it soothes the characters within who really need to lay at least a bit of their pasts to rest. It might even give the reader the opportunity to do the same.
If that doesn’t work, the reader certainly has the chance to eat their feelings along with the Committee. All the recipes are included and they look like YUM!
Originally published at Reading Reality
Instead, it’s rather a lot like Before the Coffee Gets Cold, which shouldn’t be a surprise as the author of THIS book was discovered by the author of THAT book.
Although the seed for this story is true. Or at least true-ish. Also really, really relatable, because the only people who have not been dumped from a romantic relationship in their whole, entire lives are either under the age of 10 (crushes count!) or have never in those lives put themselves out there in any way at all.
Momoko has just been dumped by her boyfriend of FOUR years – at a love hotel which adds a whole lot of insult to the injury. She’s invested four years of her life to doing her damndest to be the woman she thinks he wants, instead of the person she actually is. And she’s been so damn patient with him, so busy trying to play the part she thinks she’s supposed to, that she’s made excuses for all the terrible, and terribly rude and neglectful, signals he’s been sending that he wants to break up with her because he wants her to take care of that for him.
Which is kind of how he’s been operating for years by that point.
So yes, he’s been an asshole, she’s been complicit in his assholery, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. Which doesn’t help her deal with the fact that he’s been the focus of her life for four years and now everything in her life reminds her of him – because she’s made her life be that way.
And now she has to deal with the fallout of her romantic relationship. And she has to reckon with the fact that her job is toxic and now that’s all she’s got.
Which is where the Funeral Committee comes in – but only after Momoko finds herself in a rundown cafe on a quiet Tokyo sidestreet, drunk and sobbing her heart out.
She knows she needs to make some changes. She needs to make a LOT of changes. And she needs time to process her grief and move on. More importantly, Momoko needs to remember who SHE is and what SHE wants, and be herself in the world instead of who anyone thinks she’s supposed to be – even herself.
The recipe, the truly excellent Butter Chicken Curry recipe she invented and made for her ex, is the start of her healing process. First she makes it for the cafe’s manager and one of the regulars – and they both literally eat it up because it’s WAY better than anything the cafe’s ever served.
But as she’s cooking, processing her grief and reclaiming her love for the recipe she invented, the three of them have a revelation. She can help others just like they are helping her. All she has to do is quit her toxic job, take over the kitchen at the cafe, and once a week meet with someone who needs the same kind of healing she did to cook the recipe that meant the most in the relationship that they are grieving and lay those emotions to rest. Just as Momoko is trying to do – even if her success at that endeavor can only be measured in nanometers – if that.
Escape Rating A-: Books like this one have become their own kind of thing, and The Ex-Broyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee is a terrific example of it. The format is fairly simple, a series of loosely connected short stories connected by a place or a theme or a circumstance or all of the above, with an overarching story or theme about that connection.
In this particular case, the place is the Amayadori Cafe, the obvious theme is healing after a loss or a break-up, but mostly break-ups, and the connecting tissue is the “Funeral Committee”. In the case of this particular story, there’s also a less obvious theme about the masks that people wear, and just how difficult it is to set those masks aside and be authentic. For Momoko, and for the other women who tell their stories to the “committee” there’s an even deeper element about just how pervasive and restrictive the masks that women feel compelled to wear can be, and the way those masks are formed both by external pressure and internal adoption of that pressure.
Unlike many of the other books similar to this one, Momoko, the cafe manager Iori and the monk-in-training/regular customer Hozumi who becomes part of their inner circle, become a big part of each person’s story – and each other’s – instead of being confined to the background and/or small parts in smaller interconnecting bits between the stories. So this one feels more like a novel than many of the other books of this type.
Because these stories are all wrapped around loss, this definitely qualifies as “sad fluff”. Most of the stories are not about finding happiness. Either they are about finding closure – or they are focused on learning to live with the pain. And each of the three has their own tale and RECIPE to add to the committee’s archives. Their own stories don’t and in fact can’t lead to happy ever afters, at least not in the near term, but they can, and do, help each other deal with their respective losses. As all the best families do. Because that’s what they are, a found family.
Of all of the books of this type I’ve read, from Before the Coffee Gets Cold to Monday’s The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park, the book that this reminds me of the most is The Kamogawa Food Detectives, which is also one of my favorites in the genre. It’s not just that both are based around food, and it’s not even that neither includes so much as a whiff of magic. Instead it’s that the through story in both does a terrific job of keeping the linking team as an integral part of all the stories and that Momoko does specifically recreate a recipe for one of their clients, just as the ‘food detectives’ do.
I did like this one better than I did Hinode Park, because ALL of the stories in this novel, by the nature of the Funeral Committee, are centered on adult problems and adult relationships. It’s not that Hinode Park wasn’t good and wasn’t a good book for the mood I was in, but this one just had characters whose shoes I could slip into better. (Everyone’s reading mileage probably varies from each other’s on this particular point.)
All of that being said, The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee isn’t just a cute title. It’s a charming book that plucks at the reader’s emotions even as it soothes the characters within who really need to lay at least a bit of their pasts to rest. It might even give the reader the opportunity to do the same.
If that doesn’t work, the reader certainly has the chance to eat their feelings along with the Committee. All the recipes are included and they look like YUM!
Originally published at Reading Reality
August 4, 2025
As soon as I read the title, I knew I was in for something different and refreshing: The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee did not disappoint. From the very first page, this book had me picturing a soft-focus Japanese romantic drama playing out in my head. I’m a huge K-Drama girl, so the emotional beats, the quiet intimacy, and the unexpected humor felt like curling up in my favorite warm blanket.
What made this book stand out most for me were the recipes sprinkled throughout the chapters. It’s such a charming, unexpected element. It was like flipping through someone’s grief journal and finding not only their pain but also their comfort food. I found myself bookmarking pages, not just for the story, but because I wanted to try the dishes myself. There’s something so healing about food tied to memory, and this book captures that beautifully.
As a Mortician, I found the concept of a “funeral committee” for an ex to be surprisingly profound and deeply human. Grief isn’t reserved just for death. We grieve breakups, estranged friendships, aging pets, and versions of ourselves we’ve had to let go. This story treats all of that with a light touch but doesn’t diminish the reality of those feelings. It’s the kind of book I’d recommend to someone who’s not ready for something heavy, but still wants to feel seen in their sadness.
It’s heartfelt without being overly sentimental, quirky without being forced, and comforting in a way that makes you want to hug the book when it’s over. If you’re looking for something refreshingly different with a dash of nostalgia, a pinch of romance, and a generous helping of healing. I can’t recommend this one enough.
What made this book stand out most for me were the recipes sprinkled throughout the chapters. It’s such a charming, unexpected element. It was like flipping through someone’s grief journal and finding not only their pain but also their comfort food. I found myself bookmarking pages, not just for the story, but because I wanted to try the dishes myself. There’s something so healing about food tied to memory, and this book captures that beautifully.
As a Mortician, I found the concept of a “funeral committee” for an ex to be surprisingly profound and deeply human. Grief isn’t reserved just for death. We grieve breakups, estranged friendships, aging pets, and versions of ourselves we’ve had to let go. This story treats all of that with a light touch but doesn’t diminish the reality of those feelings. It’s the kind of book I’d recommend to someone who’s not ready for something heavy, but still wants to feel seen in their sadness.
It’s heartfelt without being overly sentimental, quirky without being forced, and comforting in a way that makes you want to hug the book when it’s over. If you’re looking for something refreshingly different with a dash of nostalgia, a pinch of romance, and a generous helping of healing. I can’t recommend this one enough.
August 17, 2025
A sudden heartbreak brings a distraught Momoko to a failing cafe. After pouring out her heart to the cafe manager and making the curry that used to be her exe's favorite, he asks her to come work as the chef. Moloko, the cafe manager and the only regular customer( a Buddhist monk in training) form a committee to take in people and their recipes to soothe their broken hearts and bury the relationship. By helping others the three begin to help themselves which in turn makes the cafe popular and makes the reader feel good too. A warm and cozy story translated from the original Japanese that warms the heart and the included recipes are a bonus. The main theme is the power of sharing food and community that brings people together. My thanks to the publisher for the advance copy.
February 2, 2026
The Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee by Saki Kawashiro.
At first, when I saw the ad for this book, I thought, “Nope, not for me.” I’m not usually into couple or love‑heartbreak stories, and I expected this one to be a bit cringe. But the title intrigued me enough that I couldn’t ignore it. So I took a chance, picked it up, and wow… it turned out to be absolutely unputdownable! (For me at least) 😆🤭
This book is quirky, heartfelt novel that blends heartbreak, food, and healing into a story that is both humorous and tender. It’s based on the author’s real-life viral project of cooking ex-lovers’ favorite dishes, and the book expands this idea into a fictional narrative about reclaiming identity and finding community through recipes.
The novel follows Momoko, a 29-year-old woman who is suddenly dumped by her boyfriend after four years of relationship. Heartbroken, she stumbles into a café, gets drunk, and begins sharing her story.
Iori is the café owner where Momoko stumbles in after her breakup. He listens patiently as she pours out her pain after waking up drunk in his café. He offers her a place to heal, asks her to cook her ex’s favorite dish, and even proposes adding it to the café menu (since the café itself is already close to imminent closure). This act unexpectedly leads to a new job and a new purpose. Hozumi, meanwhile, is a fellow committee member who in charge burying customers resentment for good.
From there, they form a “funeral committee” of exes recipes at the café, cooking dishes tied to past relationships as a way of finding closure. Each chapter introduces new characters who share their own stories of heartbreak, and at the end of the chapter you’ll find the actual recipe, complete with instructions on how to cook and prepare it.
This book becomes a metaphor for how food, memory, and companionship can transform grief into comfort. I really loved all the conversations, the friendships they built, and the self‑reflection and resilience that emerged toward the end of the story.
And that concludes my 5‑star rating for this book, as I truly appreciated how it entertained me right up to the end!
At first, when I saw the ad for this book, I thought, “Nope, not for me.” I’m not usually into couple or love‑heartbreak stories, and I expected this one to be a bit cringe. But the title intrigued me enough that I couldn’t ignore it. So I took a chance, picked it up, and wow… it turned out to be absolutely unputdownable! (For me at least) 😆🤭
This book is quirky, heartfelt novel that blends heartbreak, food, and healing into a story that is both humorous and tender. It’s based on the author’s real-life viral project of cooking ex-lovers’ favorite dishes, and the book expands this idea into a fictional narrative about reclaiming identity and finding community through recipes.
The novel follows Momoko, a 29-year-old woman who is suddenly dumped by her boyfriend after four years of relationship. Heartbroken, she stumbles into a café, gets drunk, and begins sharing her story.
Iori is the café owner where Momoko stumbles in after her breakup. He listens patiently as she pours out her pain after waking up drunk in his café. He offers her a place to heal, asks her to cook her ex’s favorite dish, and even proposes adding it to the café menu (since the café itself is already close to imminent closure). This act unexpectedly leads to a new job and a new purpose. Hozumi, meanwhile, is a fellow committee member who in charge burying customers resentment for good.
From there, they form a “funeral committee” of exes recipes at the café, cooking dishes tied to past relationships as a way of finding closure. Each chapter introduces new characters who share their own stories of heartbreak, and at the end of the chapter you’ll find the actual recipe, complete with instructions on how to cook and prepare it.
This book becomes a metaphor for how food, memory, and companionship can transform grief into comfort. I really loved all the conversations, the friendships they built, and the self‑reflection and resilience that emerged toward the end of the story.
And that concludes my 5‑star rating for this book, as I truly appreciated how it entertained me right up to the end!
December 29, 2025
Without a doubt the Japanese novels I’ve read come with a healthy dose of quirkiness and uniqueness and this book is no different. Just like the “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series, this book is also one of short stories set in a cafe albeit this time there is no time travel that needs to be completed before the coffee gets cold but instead we are introduced to an unconventional therapy group revolving around heart broken people sharing their stories whilst cooking and eating the food that played a part in their relationships. This also has other parallels with another Japanese story I read called “Butter” that also intertwined food and relationships. The short stories all feature 3 characters - the handsome owner of the cafe Iori, the Buddhist monk & regular customer Hozumi and Momoko who visits the cafe heartbroken one night, tells her story and cooks up her ex boyfriends favorite curry to console herself before becoming the regular chef. The stories throughout the book are all lovely, quirky, interesting and do a darn good job at showing the breadth and depth of relationship woes ( in families, in work settings, in friendships and in traditional lover relationships) and how food is intrinsically linked with how we feel and how we remember times in our lives. Each story beautifully finishes with the recipe that was significant in the relationship. I gave “Butter” 2 stars and the “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series either a 4 or 5 star rating and this short sweet book sits in the middle - probably a 3.5-4 star rating from me. Easy and light to read.
November 27, 2025
Sweet book, occasionally sparkling, only wish I could read Japanese. The translation really got in the way!
August 1, 2025
"Yet we try to comfort ourselves by giving a name to everything. We tend to think that labeling our emotions is better than having to carry undecipherable, unclear feelings. When our emotions are in a mess, instead of leaving them that way, we try to process them and kick them out of our hearts, because it feels like that is the "correct" thing to do."
This story begins in heartbreak. That results in a new job and with that the start of THE EX-BOYFRIEND'S FAVORITE RECIPE FUNERAL COMMITTEE. Each chapter contains a story of heartbreak and the tastes and smells that bring up the memories.
The chapters have fun names like THE RED FLAGS MEGASTORE HAMBURGER STEAK and at the end of each chapter the author shares the recipe that the chapter is about. (YES, it's a story and cookbook in one).
This isn't a tale that starts in heartbreak and ends in a new relationship. This tale is about learning how to love yourself, be yourself and moving on.
This story begins in heartbreak. That results in a new job and with that the start of THE EX-BOYFRIEND'S FAVORITE RECIPE FUNERAL COMMITTEE. Each chapter contains a story of heartbreak and the tastes and smells that bring up the memories.
The chapters have fun names like THE RED FLAGS MEGASTORE HAMBURGER STEAK and at the end of each chapter the author shares the recipe that the chapter is about. (YES, it's a story and cookbook in one).
This isn't a tale that starts in heartbreak and ends in a new relationship. This tale is about learning how to love yourself, be yourself and moving on.
February 28, 2026
Néha úgy érzem, mindig ugyanazt a japán regényt olvasom. Szerkezetében, stílusában és tematikájában is hasonlít az elmúlt 1-2 évben fogyasztottakhoz, és nem is emelkedik ki a kínálatból. Gusztusosak az ételek (meglepően európai közülük több is), de furcsák a szereplők, kissé hiteltelenek a párbeszédek. Momoko gyakran idegesített. Van hangulata, de nekem túl édeskés volt.
February 28, 2026
"Il piccolo caffè della felicità ritrovata" di Saki Kawashiro
Newton Compton Editori, 2025
288 pagine
📚 Genere: Letteratura giapponese, Narrativa contemporanea
⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️
"«Me lo hai detto tu, no? Quando ci siamo conosciuti. Che viviamo tra mille difficoltà. Che lottiamo ogni giorno solo per vivere.
Che, anche se ci sentiamo sciocchi o sbagliati, non dobbiamo vergognarci di niente...»" 😊🙏🏻
Ci sono giorni o fasi della vita in cui una lettura abituale non basta, ti serve una lettura "particolare", e trovare (per caso) un libro "coccola" è una sensazione meravigliosa 🥰
Per me sono quei libri che alla fine ti fanno stare bene. E "Il piccolo caffè della felicità ritrovata" di Saki Kawashiro è uno di questi ❤️
A Tokyo, c’è un piccolo caffè nascosto, l'Amayadori Café, dove è possibile ritrovare la felicità... è un caffè unico e speciale, dove è possibile aggiustare il proprio cuore infranto. Accoglie chiunque stia soffrendo, aiutandolo a superare la tristezza, offrendogli uno spazio sicuro per esprimere le proprie emozioni e iniziare un percorso di rinascita!
In un freddissimo giorno d'inverno, Momoko è stata lasciata dal suo grande amore, Kyōhei, nella stanza di un love hotel dopo una bella serata passata insieme 😨
Momoko Yūki è una ragazza di 29 anni, è disperata e si è appena risvegliata all'Amayadori Café, il bello è che non sa quando e né come ci sia arrivata.
"Com'era finita lì dentro?"
Il locale si chiama Amayadori Café, e i caratteri sull’insegna significano “Riparo dalla pioggia” 🌧️😊
Così, con la testa pesante e la nausea post sbornia, affranta e sconsolata, in quel locale incantato e misterioso, Momo si ritrova a condivide la sua storia con Iori Amamiya, il premuroso e bellissimo proprietario, e un'altro cliente, Hozumi Kuroda che si sta formando come monaco presso un tempio nelle vicinanze, il Seizanji 🙏🏻
E, mentre racconta il suo dolore, e apre il suo cuore, entra in cucina e prepara il piatto preferito del suo ex fidanzato: il butter chicken curry 🍛
NUOVO MENÙ! IL BUTTER CHICKEN CURRY CHE PIACEVA AL MIO EX! 😁
Momoko si è licenziata ed è stata assunta come cuoca all'Amayadori Café e Amamiya ha un'altra idea geniale, crea il COMITATO DI SEPOLTURA DEI PIATTI DEGLI EX, è deciso, ogni venerdì sera lui, Kuroda e Momo ascolteranno i loro clienti delusi dall’amore e dalla vita... chiedendo poi la ricetta legata alla storia 😊
Ogni storia è differente. Ogni ricetta è differente, l'unica cosa certa è che quando il Comitato di sepoltura si riunisce, stranamente piove sempre!! 🌧️
Come già detto "Il piccolo caffè della felicità ritrovata" di Saki Kawashiro è un libro "coccola" che scalda il cuore, perfetto con la sua tipica atmosfera intima e giapponese ❤️
È una storia di rinascita, amore e resilienza.
Il piccolo caffè è un luogo magico dove il tempo si è fermato, dove il quotidiano diventa straordinario e le emozioni trovano spazio 🍚
Ogni storia è una ricetta e la trovi alla fine di ogni capitolo 👍🏻 top!
Ho amato i tre protagonisti, sarei stata volentieri seduta al divano con Amamiya, Kuroda e Momo, a chiacchierare con loro, a mangiare con loro... oppure sul terrazzo a guardare le stelle 🥰
Da leggere assolutamente!
Newton Compton Editori, 2025
288 pagine
📚 Genere: Letteratura giapponese, Narrativa contemporanea
⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️
"«Me lo hai detto tu, no? Quando ci siamo conosciuti. Che viviamo tra mille difficoltà. Che lottiamo ogni giorno solo per vivere.
Che, anche se ci sentiamo sciocchi o sbagliati, non dobbiamo vergognarci di niente...»" 😊🙏🏻
Ci sono giorni o fasi della vita in cui una lettura abituale non basta, ti serve una lettura "particolare", e trovare (per caso) un libro "coccola" è una sensazione meravigliosa 🥰
Per me sono quei libri che alla fine ti fanno stare bene. E "Il piccolo caffè della felicità ritrovata" di Saki Kawashiro è uno di questi ❤️
A Tokyo, c’è un piccolo caffè nascosto, l'Amayadori Café, dove è possibile ritrovare la felicità... è un caffè unico e speciale, dove è possibile aggiustare il proprio cuore infranto. Accoglie chiunque stia soffrendo, aiutandolo a superare la tristezza, offrendogli uno spazio sicuro per esprimere le proprie emozioni e iniziare un percorso di rinascita!
In un freddissimo giorno d'inverno, Momoko è stata lasciata dal suo grande amore, Kyōhei, nella stanza di un love hotel dopo una bella serata passata insieme 😨
Momoko Yūki è una ragazza di 29 anni, è disperata e si è appena risvegliata all'Amayadori Café, il bello è che non sa quando e né come ci sia arrivata.
"Com'era finita lì dentro?"
Il locale si chiama Amayadori Café, e i caratteri sull’insegna significano “Riparo dalla pioggia” 🌧️😊
Così, con la testa pesante e la nausea post sbornia, affranta e sconsolata, in quel locale incantato e misterioso, Momo si ritrova a condivide la sua storia con Iori Amamiya, il premuroso e bellissimo proprietario, e un'altro cliente, Hozumi Kuroda che si sta formando come monaco presso un tempio nelle vicinanze, il Seizanji 🙏🏻
E, mentre racconta il suo dolore, e apre il suo cuore, entra in cucina e prepara il piatto preferito del suo ex fidanzato: il butter chicken curry 🍛
NUOVO MENÙ! IL BUTTER CHICKEN CURRY CHE PIACEVA AL MIO EX! 😁
Momoko si è licenziata ed è stata assunta come cuoca all'Amayadori Café e Amamiya ha un'altra idea geniale, crea il COMITATO DI SEPOLTURA DEI PIATTI DEGLI EX, è deciso, ogni venerdì sera lui, Kuroda e Momo ascolteranno i loro clienti delusi dall’amore e dalla vita... chiedendo poi la ricetta legata alla storia 😊
Ogni storia è differente. Ogni ricetta è differente, l'unica cosa certa è che quando il Comitato di sepoltura si riunisce, stranamente piove sempre!! 🌧️
Come già detto "Il piccolo caffè della felicità ritrovata" di Saki Kawashiro è un libro "coccola" che scalda il cuore, perfetto con la sua tipica atmosfera intima e giapponese ❤️
È una storia di rinascita, amore e resilienza.
Il piccolo caffè è un luogo magico dove il tempo si è fermato, dove il quotidiano diventa straordinario e le emozioni trovano spazio 🍚
Ogni storia è una ricetta e la trovi alla fine di ogni capitolo 👍🏻 top!
Ho amato i tre protagonisti, sarei stata volentieri seduta al divano con Amamiya, Kuroda e Momo, a chiacchierare con loro, a mangiare con loro... oppure sul terrazzo a guardare le stelle 🥰
Da leggere assolutamente!
January 19, 2026
i’ve got quite a bit to say about this one.
it started off good; caught my attention, was easy to read and enjoyed the dialogue. i really loved the trio at Amayadori/the cafe and genuinely thought that their little friendship group that was formed was the best part of the book. i really enjoyed their banter and their interactions. so the first 100 or so pages i read in one sitting and really enjoyed.
but then it kind of got a bit repetitive, and the characters that were introduced i didn’t really care too much about and didn’t feel as though they were relevant. it ended up feeling like a series of short stories where different people would share their relationship experiences, but there was no actual plot or any real resolution at the end apart from “oh yeah, i can move on now.” the best parts, again, were the interactions between the three main characters.
if there had have been a main plot line following the three of them, whilst the other characters and stories were introduced, i genuinely think i would have really really enjoyed the book. but by the half way point, the club were established and so were the main characters, and from there it just resumed to individual stories that i didn’t find interesting or really resonate with me.
the end of the book was also a bit disappointing, as i feel like they could have done more with it. instead it felt like Momoko just decided to love herself (which is great but felt like she came to that conclusion much earlier in the book) and still didn’t really have much closure. and Iori and Hozumi (the other two main characters) had interesting backgrounds but i didn’t feel as though they too got the ending or closure they deserved. i suppose the book just didn’t feel final (i kept turning pages after the last chapter because i expected there to be at least a few more).
overall, it was a cute book and easy read, very easy to pick up, put down, and resume later and still follow along. the translation was a bit off at points but not too bad. just wish there had have been more on the trio and their friendship, and the scenes with the three of them were longer and had more plot.
it started off good; caught my attention, was easy to read and enjoyed the dialogue. i really loved the trio at Amayadori/the cafe and genuinely thought that their little friendship group that was formed was the best part of the book. i really enjoyed their banter and their interactions. so the first 100 or so pages i read in one sitting and really enjoyed.
but then it kind of got a bit repetitive, and the characters that were introduced i didn’t really care too much about and didn’t feel as though they were relevant. it ended up feeling like a series of short stories where different people would share their relationship experiences, but there was no actual plot or any real resolution at the end apart from “oh yeah, i can move on now.” the best parts, again, were the interactions between the three main characters.
if there had have been a main plot line following the three of them, whilst the other characters and stories were introduced, i genuinely think i would have really really enjoyed the book. but by the half way point, the club were established and so were the main characters, and from there it just resumed to individual stories that i didn’t find interesting or really resonate with me.
the end of the book was also a bit disappointing, as i feel like they could have done more with it. instead it felt like Momoko just decided to love herself (which is great but felt like she came to that conclusion much earlier in the book) and still didn’t really have much closure. and Iori and Hozumi (the other two main characters) had interesting backgrounds but i didn’t feel as though they too got the ending or closure they deserved. i suppose the book just didn’t feel final (i kept turning pages after the last chapter because i expected there to be at least a few more).
overall, it was a cute book and easy read, very easy to pick up, put down, and resume later and still follow along. the translation was a bit off at points but not too bad. just wish there had have been more on the trio and their friendship, and the scenes with the three of them were longer and had more plot.
December 30, 2025
This was such a sweet read, and from the cover exactly what I was expecting. A whimsical low stakes translated fiction with a whole lot of heart driving it forward. It was such a nice read, and very reminiscent of books like Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Dallergut Dream Department Store. If you’ve enjoyed either of those titles, you’ll definitely enjoy cosying up with this one.
I found some of the translation (or it may have been an original writing error) to be a bit clunky and choppy. It was fairly basic, but it worked for the purpose of telling the story. Likewise the plot and characters were very simplistic. The whole thing is rather surface level, but it does mean that it remains fairly lighthearted and sweet throughout which I liked. It’s quite an easy book to fall into and dip in and out of without having to remember too much. I absolutely adored the idea and the inclusion of real recipes at the end of every chapter - I couldn’t help but take pictures of them for future reference!
It did start getting a little repetitive and formulaic around chapter four for me and lost its initial sparkle. I feel like there needed to be more plot in between each client and more bridging between the chapters. It could have done more with the core three characters, instead of trying to cram it all in at the end. I liked them regardless though and it finishes on such a wholesome and heartwarming note. A smile inducing quick little read.
I found some of the translation (or it may have been an original writing error) to be a bit clunky and choppy. It was fairly basic, but it worked for the purpose of telling the story. Likewise the plot and characters were very simplistic. The whole thing is rather surface level, but it does mean that it remains fairly lighthearted and sweet throughout which I liked. It’s quite an easy book to fall into and dip in and out of without having to remember too much. I absolutely adored the idea and the inclusion of real recipes at the end of every chapter - I couldn’t help but take pictures of them for future reference!
It did start getting a little repetitive and formulaic around chapter four for me and lost its initial sparkle. I feel like there needed to be more plot in between each client and more bridging between the chapters. It could have done more with the core three characters, instead of trying to cram it all in at the end. I liked them regardless though and it finishes on such a wholesome and heartwarming note. A smile inducing quick little read.
October 19, 2025
I want to thank Crown Publishing and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee. All opinions presented here are solely mine.
4.5 Rounded to 5
The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee is based on Saki Kawashiro’s actual experiences. While working in a cafe, her story came to the attention of Toshikazu Kawaguchi, the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
The book is around 300 pages long and contains only eight chapters. As there are so few chapters, each one is over 30 pages in length. While that may feel long, the chapters are all quick and easy reads. Even better, each chapter concludes with a recipe.
Each chapter focuses on a different character trying to find closure or healing with a particular relationship. Not all of the relationships are romance-based. In the end, each chapter discusses the focal character and untying their emotional knots.
Overall, if you’ve enjoyed reading other cozy Japanese fiction, including The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, you will enjoy reading The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee.
4.5 Rounded to 5
The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee is based on Saki Kawashiro’s actual experiences. While working in a cafe, her story came to the attention of Toshikazu Kawaguchi, the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
The book is around 300 pages long and contains only eight chapters. As there are so few chapters, each one is over 30 pages in length. While that may feel long, the chapters are all quick and easy reads. Even better, each chapter concludes with a recipe.
Each chapter focuses on a different character trying to find closure or healing with a particular relationship. Not all of the relationships are romance-based. In the end, each chapter discusses the focal character and untying their emotional knots.
Overall, if you’ve enjoyed reading other cozy Japanese fiction, including The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, you will enjoy reading The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee.
November 30, 2025
The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee by Yuka Maeno is such a whole mood funny, sad, and super cozy all at once. Momoko’s way of dealing with a breakup by cooking her ex’s fave butter chicken curry? So unique and relatable! Food here isn’t just food It’s such a fresh and unique way of showing how food can be tied to memories and emotions.
The whole recipe funeral committee thing where people share breakup stories and recipes, That hit different like, breakup therapy but yummier.
The mix of chill and emotional moments kept me hooked. Plus, the squad like café boss Iori and monk-in-training Hozumi gave the story those good vibes and warmth you just wanna soak in.
Yuka Maeno’s writing style is gentle and unpretentious, which makes the emotional moments feel very real without being heavy or overwrought. The food descriptions made me lowkey drool, and the little secrets sprinkled in kept me curious till the end. What really got me? It’s not just about sad breakups but finding yourself and glowing up after.
However the pacing is bit slow at some places, so if you are a fast reader try to read one or two stories at a time to get the Essence of the book.
If you love cozy, food-filled, and lowkey deep stories, grab this one ASAP!
The whole recipe funeral committee thing where people share breakup stories and recipes, That hit different like, breakup therapy but yummier.
The mix of chill and emotional moments kept me hooked. Plus, the squad like café boss Iori and monk-in-training Hozumi gave the story those good vibes and warmth you just wanna soak in.
Yuka Maeno’s writing style is gentle and unpretentious, which makes the emotional moments feel very real without being heavy or overwrought. The food descriptions made me lowkey drool, and the little secrets sprinkled in kept me curious till the end. What really got me? It’s not just about sad breakups but finding yourself and glowing up after.
However the pacing is bit slow at some places, so if you are a fast reader try to read one or two stories at a time to get the Essence of the book.
If you love cozy, food-filled, and lowkey deep stories, grab this one ASAP!
February 28, 2026
4.25
Cover 4; characters 5; Plot 4; Pace 5; Intrigue 4; Logic 3; worldbuilding 4; Writing 5; Enjoyment 4
This was such an interesting read. Each chapter takes on a different person and their break up story along with the food that reminds them of their ex. But with that it circles around three MC's who are the founding members of the committee. With having those same three MC's and the cafe they are in daily as a grounding moment, the revolving cast of brokenhearted characters doesn't feel off-putting.
The break-up stories we hear are all different. Outside of standard break-up stories it includes someone's "break-up" with their family rather than a lover. There's also a story from an older gentleman whose wife died 20 years prior and he can't remember the taste of a dish she made him every day. I think if you're dealing with a tough break-up or struggle with finding self-love, or dealing with the ticking clock and feeling like you 'need' to find someone to marry and have children with to be happy, that this book can be for you.
There were a lot of really sweet moments mixed in with some amazing descriptions of food. Also the recipes are included for the foods so if you want to try them, you can!
Cover 4; characters 5; Plot 4; Pace 5; Intrigue 4; Logic 3; worldbuilding 4; Writing 5; Enjoyment 4
This was such an interesting read. Each chapter takes on a different person and their break up story along with the food that reminds them of their ex. But with that it circles around three MC's who are the founding members of the committee. With having those same three MC's and the cafe they are in daily as a grounding moment, the revolving cast of brokenhearted characters doesn't feel off-putting.
The break-up stories we hear are all different. Outside of standard break-up stories it includes someone's "break-up" with their family rather than a lover. There's also a story from an older gentleman whose wife died 20 years prior and he can't remember the taste of a dish she made him every day. I think if you're dealing with a tough break-up or struggle with finding self-love, or dealing with the ticking clock and feeling like you 'need' to find someone to marry and have children with to be happy, that this book can be for you.
There were a lot of really sweet moments mixed in with some amazing descriptions of food. Also the recipes are included for the foods so if you want to try them, you can!
March 3, 2026
Ehhh it was okay! I feel like maybe the translation was a bit awkward at times??
I like the idea with certain dishes having memories and people attached to them and after these people leave your life you realise you likely won’t make or have that dish again for whatever reason that may be, only cooked it bc they liked it, they cooked it and you don’t know the recipe or too many emotions attached etc.
But the story of each chapter was usually pretty boring - the best one I think by far was the star pizza but otherwise pretty forgetful?
Def not the worst book I’ve read but pretty lacking overall I’d say
I like the idea with certain dishes having memories and people attached to them and after these people leave your life you realise you likely won’t make or have that dish again for whatever reason that may be, only cooked it bc they liked it, they cooked it and you don’t know the recipe or too many emotions attached etc.
But the story of each chapter was usually pretty boring - the best one I think by far was the star pizza but otherwise pretty forgetful?
Def not the worst book I’ve read but pretty lacking overall I’d say
February 7, 2026
這本有點令我意外。看完第一章原本要棄書的，因為字很小，而且感覺也不脫一般公式化的日式小說架構（固定班底的主角們＋不同章節的客角）。告訴自己至少要看完兩章再決定是否棄書。沒想到，看各式＂渣男＂也挺療癒—有分手經驗的人，看到渣到不可思議的情節，多少有安慰的效果；對比有些章節主打"純情至愛"，雖然感人，但總覺離自己遙不可及。挫敗的戀情 VS 用情真心，人還是想看比自己更不幸的那一面。
再加上作者描寫戀愛的細節與過程的確生動深入，是挺有趣的。雖然女主太愛哭真的很煩。
摘句：
人生在世得面對許多痛苦，包括生病、衰老、和討厭的人往來等，而佛教將這些人類無法避免的苦痛與煩惱，統稱為『四苦八苦』。
「我之所以出家，是因為對我來說「活著』也屬於四苦八苦的一種，也就是說，連活著都是一種苦。」34頁「前男友喜歡的奶油雞肉咖哩飯」
但是能夠在面對形形色色的事情時都靈活面對，想必是因為曾經在受傷的時候、傷害某個人的時候有確實大呼小叫過、掙扎過、向某人祈求幫助過吧。113頁「變身大麻煩要吃的馬鈴薯沙拉」
愈是每天使盡全力、認真生活的人，就愈會假裝沒有受傷，愈會扮演一個成熟的人、愈會表現得一點也不麻煩、愈會假裝自己馬上就能夠適應變化。因為不這麼做的話，就沒辦法好好地活下去。166頁「想看到超越友誼景色的胡蘿蔔蛋糕」
「人家，到底該怎麼辦才好捏，我覺得已經不可能再更努力了。我，已經竭盡全力，告訴藤本我喜歡他了喔。這五年來人家什麼撩男技巧都沒用過，是用最真實的我認真去衝撞、去受了很多的傷，儘管如此人家還是真的很喜歡藤本捏。但是，人家的喜歡，現在已經用光光了喔。」339頁「超級桃花女的真心年
（註：奇怪的尾音字是譯者用來表現關西腔)
再加上作者描寫戀愛的細節與過程的確生動深入，是挺有趣的。雖然女主太愛哭真的很煩。
摘句：
人生在世得面對許多痛苦，包括生病、衰老、和討厭的人往來等，而佛教將這些人類無法避免的苦痛與煩惱，統稱為『四苦八苦』。
「我之所以出家，是因為對我來說「活著』也屬於四苦八苦的一種，也就是說，連活著都是一種苦。」34頁「前男友喜歡的奶油雞肉咖哩飯」
但是能夠在面對形形色色的事情時都靈活面對，想必是因為曾經在受傷的時候、傷害某個人的時候有確實大呼小叫過、掙扎過、向某人祈求幫助過吧。113頁「變身大麻煩要吃的馬鈴薯沙拉」
愈是每天使盡全力、認真生活的人，就愈會假裝沒有受傷，愈會扮演一個成熟的人、愈會表現得一點也不麻煩、愈會假裝自己馬上就能夠適應變化。因為不這麼做的話，就沒辦法好好地活下去。166頁「想看到超越友誼景色的胡蘿蔔蛋糕」
「人家，到底該怎麼辦才好捏，我覺得已經不可能再更努力了。我，已經竭盡全力，告訴藤本我喜歡他了喔。這五年來人家什麼撩男技巧都沒用過，是用最真實的我認真去衝撞、去受了很多的傷，儘管如此人家還是真的很喜歡藤本捏。但是，人家的喜歡，現在已經用光光了喔。」339頁「超級桃花女的真心年
（註：奇怪的尾音字是譯者用來表現關西腔)
February 7, 2026
I picked it up because of the title and it did justice to it and surprisingly offered more than what i was looking for in terms of the failed relationships which were not always romantic ones. Though closure is a myth one can somehow maybe get near it. Towards the end it felt like im overhearing a bunch of youngsters negotiating relationship issues by confiding in each other where neither are sure of their stand but are extremely earnest in their intentions to be there for one another.
November 22, 2025
This type of book is always so comforting…they’re like an adult, Japanese-version of Mrs. Piggle-wiggle. Everyone learns an important thing about themselves and how they should move forward in the world, and I really love how direct they are in their “you are good enough as you are and you’ll be fine” messaging.
October 21, 2025
3.75 ⭐️
December 13, 2025
I think I needed this.
December 27, 2025
Not interesting - didn’t end up finishing it
January 5, 2026
it was cute. nothing too special and some of the bits were cheesy, but i loved the friendship in this book
January 27, 2026
solid! when it hits, it hits. a fun read overall!
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