Anna and the Frech Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Synopsis/Summary:

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?

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⭐⭐⭐⭐💫/5

This love story had become the snug book that I have to read once a year definitely.

Anna had a settled life in Atlanta and what she least expected was to be forced to go to a boarding school on the other side of the world: Paris. She will have to leave her friend, her crush, her job, and even her family to start fresh again. She is tenacious that she does not belong and will never belong until Anna unexpectedly meets someone worth staying for.

Warning: this book contains the cutest love story I had ever read. Be prepared to fall in love hard with the characters in a way you will want to buy a ticket immediately to Paris :) It doesn’t matter if you are 8 or 25 this book is for you, I know it, you will know it.

I had recently re-read this book and immediately thought that I have to review it. Anna and the french kiss is an uncomplicated book and such a vice that I read it in two days. First of all, I never went to Paris before, but when I read these pages I have the sensation that I am there. The theatres, point zero, the stone streets, you go discovering them and loving them as Anna does. I had the oportunity to see it through my imagination, I was there. I was in the city of love <3 The description of the food, culture, architecture, was just perfect. There was the right amount for me to fall for it and not get bored in the process. I enjoyed every minute of this reading. Every world. Stephanie reached my expectations with this lovely romance story. It had everything: a love story that gave me goosebumps, friendships that taught me what being a friend really means, and problems in where you could relate to how the characters decide to cope with them.

You can associate with the characters because they are not just superficial fictional people. You understand the why to their decisions because you got to know them. Etienne St.Claire, one of the protagonists, is my favorite character since he is the one with who I could connect the most. You are able to see how he battles with his personality and morals constantly. He has a good heart that guides him through the good side of the road. Etienne wants to cause no evil, he doesn’t want to hurt anyone, only does what is best for the people he loves. But now his heart is playing him a bad trick and he feels lost between what he wants to do and what is correct to do. And by doing neither of these things he ends up hurting more than one person. So he fights, he struggles, he goes through a lot, and you end up understanding and thus, loving him. Btw, he is also an English boy, with an English accent so how can you not have a crush on him?

I take my hat to Stephanie Perkins and her lovely way of hooking me into a book. It was realistic, a breath of all that fantasy that leaves me without a heart. This novel was funny, cute, and addictive. It will be a bandage to all your poor hearts that go through a lot constantly. Because that is what YA readers have to withstand, but as it exists those novels that destroy, there also exist those novels that heal like Anna and the french kiss.