Cats once again prove to be the best medicine in the wonderful third book following the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We’ll Prescribe You a Cat.

When you are lost, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul will find for you.

Dr. Nikké and his clinic are always ready to offer their unconventional approach to healing. Although one never quite understands how they ended up there, each person who has walked through the door has left with a cat and a deeper understanding of themselves. Every time, the clinic reaffirms that the unbreakable bond between cats and people has the potential to heal and transform lives.

With Dr. Nikké as the constant that weaves each of these stories together, we meet a woman anxious about an upcoming competition, an overwhelmed young father, an illustrator questioning her career, and a young woman burdened with guilt. Digging ever deeper into the complicated minds of humans—and the love of their feline companions—this poignant, episodic novel provides something richer and more challenging than mere comfort: compassion.

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Dr. Nikké and Chitose are back again and helping more people by prescribing cats in the third installment of the We’ll Prescribe You a Cat series. While the format is the same, with different people finding their way to the Clinic for the Soul and being described a cat to help them figure out what is troubling them, in this installment we learn even more about the history of the space the clinic inhabits and what led to it’s creation. While the original events are somewhat described in books 1 and 2, we get a clear recollection of what originally happened from one of the people who were there, and their lingering feelings regarding the situation. There were definitely a lot of loose strings that were starting to be pulled together, but it’s obvious that there’s more to the underlying stories. As always there is a lot of introspection as people work through the things plaguing their hearts, not all of which are resolved.

I had previously thought this was the conclusion, but it looks like another three books are in the series in Japan, so I’m eager to see them come out in the US as well and continue with the story of the clinic.

Thank you to the publisher for the eARC copy of this book through Netgalley. Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinic came out today, so make sure to pick up a copy (and make sure to read the first two as well)!

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For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife.

Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother’s will spells out two conditions: Yeon-hwa must keep the shop going for at least another month and only open it to customers from 10 PM until midnight. Yeon-hwa is hesitant at first; her grandmother was always distant, raising Yeon-hwa after her parents died in a car accident. But she agrees to the terms, hoping that running the bakery will help her to finally understand her grandmother after all these years.

Yeon-hwa soon learns that the Hwawoldang—the name means “flower moon temple” —is not an ordinary dessert shop. The customers who arrive late at night are spirits, there to attend to unfinished business before being reincarnated. The sweets they crave hold some deep significance in their earthly lives, and they expect Yeon-hwa to meet their requests, as her grandmother did.

With each customer who arrives, Yeon-hwa learns which special desserts live in their memories and will help them on their way. Aided by the shop’s resident black cat, Yeon-hwa learns how to find closure for her customers—and begins to unravel her own family’s secrets as well.

Yeon-hwa’s grandmother has just died, leaving her with more questions than answers and a pastry shop mired in debt that she has to keep open for at least 30 days, but only from 10 p.m. to midnight. Over the next month she discovers more about her grandmother as well as the various souls she meets and more importantly, finds herself.

I love translated cozy fiction, or healing fiction as some call it, so I had to pick this one up. The writing was lyrical and heartfelt, each character having their own unique personality as they came into Yeon-hwa’s story and then sometimes left just as quickly as they appeared. Each character has their own story and lesson to teach Yeon-hwa, helping her to discover who she really is. This is not only a story about findings yourself, but also grief, learning to forgive and so much more. Definitely have some tissues handy when reading as it is just as much catharsis and release as it is emotional.

Happy reading!