young adult, contemporary fiction, short stories
I've read, and mostly enjoyed, several books by Rainbow Rowell. From adult fiction, to YA, to graphic novels she has an impressive writing range.
Scattered Showers is a lovely series of meet-cute stories.
Each of the stories in this collection feels like the beginning of a book that never happened; the kernel of an idea that might have been, but that Rainbow Rowell never developed into more. And yet, each one of them is delightful all on their own.
Whether waiting in line for a movie, or a friend group who always spends New Year’s Eve together, and others, each of these vignettes is a slice of life leading up to what might be… will it be true love? Will it just be a moment?
Each of the stories in this collection feels like the beginning of a book that never happened; the kernel of an idea that might have been, but that Rainbow Rowell never developed into more. And yet, each one of them is delightful all on their own.
Whether waiting in line for a movie, or a friend group who always spends New Year’s Eve together, and others, each of these vignettes is a slice of life leading up to what might be… will it be true love? Will it just be a moment?
A few of the stories do feature characters from Rowell's previous novels. Of course there is a Simon Snow story- the one story I did not enjoy (which is not surprising as I did not like his portion of the book in which he originated), and one featuring the characters from Attachments which I did not realize until a friend pointed it out to me.
Generally I read with a smile on my face, wondering what might happen to
the characters next. I marked this as young adult because there’s truly
no reason that it can’t be- overall it’s a pretty chaste series of
stories. I’ll be curious to see if any of them make it into
Rowell’s lineup of novels.
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