Almost Midnight

Rainbow Rowell

2017 • 96 pages

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Almost Midnight: Two Festive Short Stories by New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell contains two wintery short stories, decorated throughout with gorgeous black and white illustrations by Simini Blocker. 'Midnights' is the story of Noel and Mags, who meet at the same New Year's Eve party every year and fall a little more in love each time . . . 'Kindred Spirits' is about Elena, who decides to queue to see the new Star Wars movie and meets Gabe, a fellow fan. 'Midnights' was previously published as part of the My True Love Gave to Me anthology, edited by Stephanie Perkins and 'Kindred Spirits' was previously published as a World Book Day title.

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Ywa

The rating is exclusively for Midnights as I have already read Kindred Spirits a while back and rated it separately. Anyhow, after finishing this I realized I have actually read Midnights before as well, as part of an anthology. So you can imagine just how memorable this was to me since I had to reach the end to figure out I've been there before.

June 9, 2018

Shannon

I truly love Rainbow Rowell's New Year's Eve themed short story, Midnights, and already have it in two other volumes of her short stories. This year, I was delighted to enjoy the story in this adorably small paperback, which also has unique illustrations that are not in the other volumes. I also enjoyed Kindred Spirits, a story about camping out to see Star Wars Episode VII in 2015. I'm now somehow nostalgic for 2015.

January 1, 2024