{"id":42095,"date":"2025-04-01T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42095"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:25:33","slug":"review-of-scattered-showers-by-rainbow-rowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42095","title":{"rendered":"Review of Scattered Showers, by Rainbow Rowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/scattered_showers_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/scattered_showers_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45080\" \/><\/a><em>Scattered Showers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Rainbow Rowell<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday Books, 2022.  282 pages.<br \/>\nReview written January 15, 2023, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow Rowell is exceptionally good at quirky romances.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what this book is full of &#8212; short stories featuring quirky romances.  The stories are indeed short, but they pull you in and make you root for the couple, each with their own obstacles to romance.<\/p>\n<p>My favorites were the ones at the beginning of the book, self-contained sweet stories.  Later, she included characters from her books <em>Fangirl<\/em>, <em>Attachments<\/em>, and the <em>Simon Snow<\/em> trilogy.  I probably would have enjoyed those more if I&#8217;d read the books.<\/p>\n<p>The first story is about friends who are always together at midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve &#8212; and simply tells what happens each successive midnight.  Another story I enjoyed takes place in a college dorm, with a girl listening to breakup music over and over.  The guy who lives underneath her starts giving her mixtapes of music he likes better, and it turns out she does, too.<\/p>\n<p>What they all have in common is the stories are quirky and feel so individual they seem like there must be real people like this.<\/p>\n<p>These stories made me smile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainbowrowell.com\/\">rainbowrowell.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1250855411\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/scattered_showers.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/scattered_showers.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell Wednesday Books, 2022. 282 pages. Review written January 15, 2023, from a library book Rainbow Rowell is exceptionally good at quirky romances. And that&#8217;s what this book is full of &#8212; short stories featuring quirky romances. The stories are indeed short, but they pull you in and make you root [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-short-stories","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45082,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42095\/revisions\/45082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}