Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this audiobook!
A sweet little book, "Matcha Tee am Montag" allows the reader (or, in my case, listener) glimpses into the lives of various individuals that all, in some way, are intertwined with one another.
I really enjoyed the two narrators, and once more appreciate the German voice acting/ synchronisation/ narration scene. The audiobook was very pleasant to listen to, with the narration perfectly fitting the vibe and the voices being very easy on the ears.
As for the plot, this was a very sweet book, with a fairly light plot that still hints at deeper issues and topics, allowing the reader to appreciate the characters without it feeling too heavy. The various settings (such as a small lingerie shop, a family-owned candyshop, or an antique fleamarket, among others) all feel familiar and cosy, despite being fairly different in nature still. The characters, too, all have their sympathetic sides, and I appreciated the way that each character is connected, in some way, to at least one of the others.
This was basically exactly what I expected of a recently published Japanese novel, and it fits in very well with novels such as Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Sweet Bean Paste, The Lantern of Lost Memories, etc. etc., that all share the cosy vibe will still being deeper than at first expected, but in a very light-hearted way.