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Scattered Showers

Rainbow Rowell

3.96 AVERAGE

readerette's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Cute, sweet short stories in the author's usual relatable prose. Definitely romance focused (very PG).

anjali_wen's review against another edition

5.0

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My heart is so happy and warm after reading this collection of short stories. This is Rainbow Rowell at her finest, especially the last entry in the book ‘In Waiting’. A personal favourite of mine is ‘Winter Songs for Summer’.

rosalina_bobinson's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

sadieladie21's review against another edition

3.5

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

queenofthemadlads's review against another edition

4.0

emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I love Rainbow Rowell’s writing, and this book is no exception. It’s fun to read a bunch of short stories, some of which are about characters you may already know from other books. A lot of the settings and worlds are modern and simple, but there’s also some fantasy and abstract settings that I really liked (those were probably my favorite stories). I especially liked the one that was set during Covid. The main criticism of these stories seems to be that they’re all very similar -

boy meets girl (or boy already knows girl), they don’t like each other, eventual kiss.

I didn’t love this, but it didn’t alter my overall enjoyment of the book. I do think overall Rowell’s full length stories are better, Fangirl is my current favorite if you’d like a recommendation.

fj_ando's review against another edition

4.0

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My first time reading Rainbow Rowell probably being I am not the YA target audience. I don’t love fantasy so those two related stories weren’t my fave but the rest I really enjoyed. Especially In Waiting - I’ll need to re read it again tomorrow to confirm but probably my favourite short story of all time? Defs a 5/5 on its own merit, so original and beautifully crafted. Who knew a short story could be so rich with depth?! I adored it.

dean196717's review against another edition

3.0

lighthearted medium-paced

riotamy's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jenibearx3's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

axwls's review against another edition

3.0

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3

i think i got a little mislead when i bought this book
i was so sure that the short stories would talk about every form of love there is and in a way it does, some stories talk about the love you have for your family, others for your friends but the structure of these stories is always the same : girl meets boy, boy and girl become friends, boy and girl kiss
and while this structure works and is sweet well after 2 stories i wanted to see more
so i dont really think this is the author's fauot but mine as i was expecting a lot more

its still nice but it gets redundant