I did enjoy the stories in this book, but some things felt super repetitive, mostly the rules for time travel. I get it's something that's important for the characters to understand, but having to read the same thing multiple times when you're already into the third book of the series was kind of annoying.
Changing café's was also weird for me. At first I thought being in a new café in a new city would be a nice way to freshen things up in this book, but by the end I was wondering what the point really was. The rules are all the same, nothing about that café's ghost or origin were really talked about, so why bother? I'm guessing it sets something up for the fourth book, but I didn't find that the new setting really added anything in this book.
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