Review: Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell

 

Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell is a series of nine short stories based around love, including teenage romance, fantasy and even a story working through menopause. One of these stories, “Snow For Christmas”, includes characters from Rainbow Rowell’s Simon Snow trilogy, a young adult fantasy series. Although I haven’t read the series myself, from what I have read about Snow, I would love to read more. Without spoiling the stories from the book, I can simply say I was glued to the book. The characters were so interesting. It was fun to find out who actually ends up falling in love, and the backstories of the characters. 

My two favourites were definitely “Kindred Spirits”, which was a story about two Star Wars fans lining up outside a cinema after a new movie is going to come out, and “In Waiting”, where the characters in the story are all original characters, waiting patiently to be put into a story. Even though those two were my favourite, all of the stories were interesting, and I adored reading about the characters, despite getting only a short glance into their stories of love. This book is for fans of any kind of love story, especially with happy endings – but I may be a bit biased, as I am obsessed with sappy books.

Hanna Geszczak, 13