Anna was 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. So she’s less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris-until she meets Etienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Etienne 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?
Stephanie Perkins keeps the romantic tension crackling and the attraction high in a debut guaranteed to make toes tingle and hearts melt.
‘Very sly. Very funny. Very romantic.
You should date this book.’
– MAUREEN JOHNSON,
New York Times bestselling author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes and Scarlet Fever
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 1/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 3/5
3/5
Summary
So I read the most ADORABLE book the other day after meeting the author at RT and I feel like everyone should know about it. It's weird to say a book is \"adorable\" but that feels like the perfect word to describe Anna and the French Kiss. It had me giggling from the first page all the way too the end. I seriously couldn't use the phrase \"my heart melted\" enough to accurately capture the CUTENESS. The sexual tension in this book is off the charts. I found myself wishing I had character dolls I could smush together and yell \"KISS!!!\" (That sounds weird. But read the book and you will feel the pain.) But the great thing was that there were all these beautiful moments happening and no one was kissing at all. The romance wasn't nearly as relevant as the friendship aspect of the story, between Anna and Etienne, between Rashmi (a dormmate) and Anna, Meredith (another dorm mate) and Anna, and Etienne and his best friend Josh. That was probably my favorite aspect of the book, that she didn't look at a guy and it was insta-love. Anna had other friends, and she and Etienne were friends for a long time before they ever dated. There were no sword fights, explosions, or spy recon missions, yet this was one of the best books I've read in a while. I loved Anna's witty commentary and her adorable moments with Etienne. The only thing thing that bothered me and made me dock a star was Anna's pining and ridiculous behavior concerning Etienne's on-again-off-again girlfriend and her own sort-of no-good boyfriend back home. She wasted a lot of time worrying about them instead of GETTING WITH ETIENNE. Other than that, it was great. I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone looking for a cute, swoony teen romance or a new fictional boyfriend.
Violence-There were some fistfights
Language-There was some crude language (I always have trouble remembering this, but I feel like the f-bomb may have been dropped once or twice) and offensive language concerning homosexuals.
Sexual-This book was more about sexual tension than actual sex. Some making out and sex jokes.
Drug & Alcohol-The kids live in Paris, where at 18 drinking is legal, so they spend a shocking amount of time drunk and spilling secrets, drunkenly dancing in the street, or hungover and puking in a sink.