Wow. I'll never be able to think about coffee in quite the same way. I just wanted to experience drinking coffee like Wallis did. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I would never have read this book if not for the reading club. I loved wallis. He's witty and funny. I loved the historical aspect with themes of the suffragette movement, the treatments for hysteria, slavery, travels into the continent, the coffee exchange and victorian high life and low life. What doesn't this book have. I was a fan of Anthony Capella's The Wedding Officer and when I found this book in bookstore, I grabbed it right away. The synopsis seemed so exciting. Not a coffee lover myself, I thought this book would turn me into a coffee lover.I still don't like coffee after reading this book.I don't know why, I feel like he was trying to tell a lot in just some hundreds pages. I found some unimportant scenes that has no relation at all with the whole idea of the book. I forced myself to finish this book and I relieved, when I did. It just didn't appeal me the way The Wedding Officer did.
Overall I really enjoyed this book, but it did have a few spots where it was a fairly slow read.
—andy
Nederlandse titel: De koffiehandelaarMooi verhaal over hoe koffie kan smaken
—ioa1995
An interesting bit of historical fiction, especially for a coffee lover.
—Rachel
Simply a great book for coffee lovers!
—skittles
Got it for RM5 on 13 June at KLAB
—zackman
