Scattered Showers

review in progress...

Four of the nine stories were previously published, the other five were new for this book.

I loved these short stories in this collection:
1: MIDNIGHTS - very sweet “friends to romance” story, previously published in My True Love Gave to Me (2014)
2. KINDRED SPIRITS features a small group of hardcore Star Wars nerds waiting in line for the first sequel “Winter Songs for Summer,” mix CD throwbacks, cute little story. Previously published as a stand-alone in 2016.
4: THE SNOW BALL
9. IN WAITING - I really loved this one!

I liked:
3: WINTER SONGS FOR SUMMER
5: IF THE FATES ALLOW - I had previously listened to this one through Amazon Prime in 2021, so I think I liked it a little more the first time. It's still cute but also, I don't really need to relive the 2020-2021 Pandemic era... and even though I remember really enjoying Fangirl and Reagan is a character from that novel, it's been long enough since I read Fangirl that I don't remember her at all.
7: MIXED MESSAGES (an Attachments spinoff story, which I haven't read) - I wasn't super into this one but I do like that the characters are in their forties, and the very end of it was really sweet.
8: SNOW FOR CHRISTMAS - another reviewer described this as “Baz and Simon (who are a vampire and ... a dragon-man, I think? and the subjects of a trilogy) in the Harry Potter-meets Twilight-meets Heartstopper” which is too perfect =)

meh
6: THE PRINCE AND THE TROLL