Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend.
But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?
You know that kind of books that you can’t wait to read because the description sounds so good?
Those reviews you read before the book where everyone says they loved it? And you finally put your hands on it and begin to read and the story isn’t what you hoped it might be?
Well, that was for me, Anna and the French Kiss.
I was so excited to see what all the fuss was about, because some of my friends recommended it. And don’t get me wrong, because I wasn’t disappointed. I just wasn’t able to connect with the characters.
In the beginning, we meet Anna, a teenage girl who’s looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta. She’s the typical student: good grades, she has good friends, and her biggest passion is watching movies - which she loves to write about.
Things changes when she has to go to a boarding school in Paris. She’s less thrilled about the concept of leaving her entire life behind, and the fact that she doesn’t even know to speak French in order to survive her last year of high school. There, she meets Étienne St. Clair. He’s charming, intelligent, attentive, kind and beautiful and about to complicate Anna’s life.
It was very interesting to see how she is accommodating with her surroundings and makes new friends.
I found the other characters interesting and I think they had an important role in the development of the story. I’m actually excited to read more about them.
I liked the author’s style, even though, there were moments where I thought everything was just dragging and other times when Anna got on my nerves for being very irresponsible.
There were a lot of funny scenes, making up for the story moving at a slow pace and saving it from being boring. I think Stephanie Perkins did a great job at pointing out the fact that it’s a great thing when you fall in love with the right person and I’m looking forward to reading her other books.
Hi, there! I'm Steph, and I wrote ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS, LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, and ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. I also edited the romantic holiday anthology MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME and the upcoming SUMMER DAYS & SUMMER NIGHTS.
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