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Coffee
Her insecurities should not control her happiness.
187 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
About the author
Katrina R. Lippolis
6 books33 followersA self published author who began her writing journey at the age of 19 when she delve deeper into the world of poetry.
At the age of 34, she discovered the Kpop group, BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan), and wrote fan fiction stories based around the group.
After retiring her fan fiction, she began writing her novel - the historical fiction titled, Where the Wallflowers Grow.
After hitting a writers block, poetry (her first love) became her go-to in the world of Twitter (which she "officially" joined July 2019).
Thanks to her friends in the #writingcommunity she was encouraged to publish her poetry. After much hesitation, she did it.
After self publishing her first book of poetry, The Way We Fall: Love Amid the Thistles, she published her second book, The Moon is Ours: Dance Among the Stars - both of which were well received.
Despair, Spare Me Not, the third book of poetry, was released October 2020.
Coffee, her first ever adult fiction romance novel, dropped January 2021.
At the age of 34, she discovered the Kpop group, BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan), and wrote fan fiction stories based around the group.
After retiring her fan fiction, she began writing her novel - the historical fiction titled, Where the Wallflowers Grow.
After hitting a writers block, poetry (her first love) became her go-to in the world of Twitter (which she "officially" joined July 2019).
Thanks to her friends in the #writingcommunity she was encouraged to publish her poetry. After much hesitation, she did it.
After self publishing her first book of poetry, The Way We Fall: Love Amid the Thistles, she published her second book, The Moon is Ours: Dance Among the Stars - both of which were well received.
Despair, Spare Me Not, the third book of poetry, was released October 2020.
Coffee, her first ever adult fiction romance novel, dropped January 2021.
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April 27, 2021
Nice and brief romance exploring an uplifting interracial relationship.
At first I was a little baffled by the fact that the guy prepared a complicated and costly date after talking to a girl for a total of ten minutes – but this falls into the "love at first sight" trope, and, all things considered, it was well-executed. The tensions and conflicts were believable and were resolved in a sane way (which is a plus – there are plenty of ridiculous conflicts in romance books!) I found some things rushed and not well-explored. Like, why did Sweets blow up after learning about Coffee's name? This is a strange reaction that hints at some insecurity of his but I was left not really understanding all that anger. And why did Coffee change her name? This is hugely drastic, but she seems to have an okay relationship with her parents, and the trauma that made her take this radical step is not shown. People don't just change their name like that, do they? I'm sure the writer was trying to tell us something by that, but I didn't get it.
Coffee becomes a successful author, but we see nothing of it. It's just mentioned in passing ("my book was on the NY Times bestseller list – WOA! I wanna know more about that!). I understand that the book is about the relationship and the conflicts, but her struggles, her decade-long work on her manuscripts, her perseverance could have been shown with some paragraphs interspersed throughout the book. The laden racial bias theme could also have been more explored. Okay, Coffee's mum and dad were weird at the beginning but accepted Sweets pretty much immediately, although we've been told dating out of Coffee's race was a huge issue in the past. How did the issue go away so easily?
The book was well-written, in the sense that it flowed well and there were no typos. But the grammar was problematic. There were whole paragraphs where the narrator switched from past tense to present tense, punctuation was problematic at times, even the typesetting was strange (for example, two simple dashes in place of an em-dash). There were multiple-line gaps in the Kindle version, as if denoting the pages of a paper book. I won't go further into the editing of the book because whatever I saw was a standard new-author mistake that an experienced editor can very easily fix.
All in all, this was fresh and uplifting. I'm going to keep following this author and will be happy to see her progress!
At first I was a little baffled by the fact that the guy prepared a complicated and costly date after talking to a girl for a total of ten minutes – but this falls into the "love at first sight" trope, and, all things considered, it was well-executed. The tensions and conflicts were believable and were resolved in a sane way (which is a plus – there are plenty of ridiculous conflicts in romance books!) I found some things rushed and not well-explored. Like, why did Sweets blow up after learning about Coffee's name? This is a strange reaction that hints at some insecurity of his but I was left not really understanding all that anger. And why did Coffee change her name? This is hugely drastic, but she seems to have an okay relationship with her parents, and the trauma that made her take this radical step is not shown. People don't just change their name like that, do they? I'm sure the writer was trying to tell us something by that, but I didn't get it.
Coffee becomes a successful author, but we see nothing of it. It's just mentioned in passing ("my book was on the NY Times bestseller list – WOA! I wanna know more about that!). I understand that the book is about the relationship and the conflicts, but her struggles, her decade-long work on her manuscripts, her perseverance could have been shown with some paragraphs interspersed throughout the book. The laden racial bias theme could also have been more explored. Okay, Coffee's mum and dad were weird at the beginning but accepted Sweets pretty much immediately, although we've been told dating out of Coffee's race was a huge issue in the past. How did the issue go away so easily?
The book was well-written, in the sense that it flowed well and there were no typos. But the grammar was problematic. There were whole paragraphs where the narrator switched from past tense to present tense, punctuation was problematic at times, even the typesetting was strange (for example, two simple dashes in place of an em-dash). There were multiple-line gaps in the Kindle version, as if denoting the pages of a paper book. I won't go further into the editing of the book because whatever I saw was a standard new-author mistake that an experienced editor can very easily fix.
All in all, this was fresh and uplifting. I'm going to keep following this author and will be happy to see her progress!
February 11, 2021
Love surprises.
Coffee didn't plan to find love but she did. Katrina Lippolis writes a true love story that will be enjoyed by young and old. When I was reading it I felt like Coffee and Sweets could be my neighbors. It takes a lot of effort and thinking to get a book that can take a modern day life and make it beautiful with very little turmoil. Katrina Lippolis has done it.
Coffee didn't plan to find love but she did. Katrina Lippolis writes a true love story that will be enjoyed by young and old. When I was reading it I felt like Coffee and Sweets could be my neighbors. It takes a lot of effort and thinking to get a book that can take a modern day life and make it beautiful with very little turmoil. Katrina Lippolis has done it.
April 25, 2021
This book was wonderfully written by a talented author! I found the main character (Coffee) to be someone I could completely empathize with and the author did a great job in making her completely transparent to the reader. I would characterize the story as "feel good," genuine and extremely uplifting. The introduction (epilogue) set the right tone for the story and the ending brought it all together nicely. I'm looking forward to reading more from this great author!
April 26, 2021
One of the must read love stories of the year, Katrina R. Lippolis has created a real romance page turner. Her characters in Coffee make the story all the more intriguing. Life, music, and a whole lot of heart went into this story. Like a cup of coffee, it is rich, strong, & energized. I look forward to reading another book this author.
April 8, 2021
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.
I like the writing but the story just never went anywhere. I mean it does chronologically but nowhere other than that. There wasn't a big conflict. I kept waiting for the big oh no! And while I like that the characters talk and conflict isn't built up because characters don't talk to each other I needed something more to get me going. I give this book a C-. Though i would be interested to see some future works by the author.
I like the writing but the story just never went anywhere. I mean it does chronologically but nowhere other than that. There wasn't a big conflict. I kept waiting for the big oh no! And while I like that the characters talk and conflict isn't built up because characters don't talk to each other I needed something more to get me going. I give this book a C-. Though i would be interested to see some future works by the author.
March 29, 2021
A sweet and endearing character, Coffee is the girl next door. When love comes knocking in the form of a young Korean music producer, Coffee can't help but answer. For fear of giving too much away, suffice it to say that 'Coffee' is a modern love story for young and old alike.
January 2, 2023
Cute romance
This was a really cute, well written story. I liked how the relationship developed between Coffee and Sweets. They were two nerdy people who were made for each other. I loved how the love story included the challenges they faced with their families as well. The only thing I didn’t like was that the book seemed to tense shift a long from past to present and there was a lot of head hopping so that I didn’t know who’s perspective I was getting the story from at times. Very minor issues to an otherwise adorable romantic read.
This was a really cute, well written story. I liked how the relationship developed between Coffee and Sweets. They were two nerdy people who were made for each other. I loved how the love story included the challenges they faced with their families as well. The only thing I didn’t like was that the book seemed to tense shift a long from past to present and there was a lot of head hopping so that I didn’t know who’s perspective I was getting the story from at times. Very minor issues to an otherwise adorable romantic read.
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