Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop is a magical, feel good, lessons to be learned from life story about love, loss and regret. Charming and heartwarming yet heartbreaking in some ways, this is the third in the Full Moon Coffee Shop series. I did not read the first two and had absolutely no trouble diving into the story, and its cast of characters. I actually yearn for more and will go back and read the first two.
As the cats ready the coffee shop, Neptune who becomes the human named Sala prepares to give their next visitors enlightenment, life lessons and guidance. Patient and kind Sala will walk them through their past in the hopes of encouraging them to see what their life truly was and could be.
The story begins when a young woman, an actress named Satuski comes home to see her mother after an absence of three years. With her is a man who loves her and wants to marry her. He wants to ask Santuski’s mother for her hand.
Santuski’s mother, Fujko has secrets she has kept from her daughter and perhaps in some ways from herself. A single mother she raised her daughter to be independent and to rely only on herself. Unfortunately, Fujiko’s life has been hard, lonely and filled with many regrets. She is the first to visit the Full Moon Coffee Shop.
Wataru was best friends with Fujiko since childhood. But their relationship ended years ago. Now a famous writer, the memory of his friend continues to haunt him. Their last meeting horribly regretful. Now, he is at a crossroads and must come to terms with the life he chose. He too will visit the coffee shop.
Fortunately for them they may be able to have a second chance, as the mysterious cat who turns human tries to point them in the life direction they possibly could have taken. where they could have still been in each other’s life with no regrets as to how they left their friendship.
Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop is a beautifully uplifting, delightful read with valuable lessons to be taken away by the reader thanks to such extraordinary mystical cats whose advice to all of us is “the only person who can make you happy is you”.
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