Anna and the French Kiss
Ratings205
Average rating3.8
It gave me EVERYTHING I wanted and so much MOREEE. This is the kind of ya romance I was expecting. It deserves 6 ⭐️
It's melodramatic teen drama, if you like that then you'd like this. I didn't.
I probably wouldn't have read this if it wasn't on the list of a hundred YA books (that are suppose to be great) that I'm trying to read through, so take from that what you will.
I honestly think if I'd of read it when I was 13/14 I would've liked it but now... I'm just not in the demographic for this book and I think this book didn't age all that well, it feels very early 2000's to me; even though it's from 2010 it feels like 2005...
Two stars for the bits that did actually entertain me, otherwise would've been one.
Sweet and easy YA read. Makes your dream of Paris and believe in wishing on stars and falling in love with your best friend.
** how and why was this such an iconic YA romance book back in 2011-2012?! *This book is absolute sht! I think it might be the worst one I read all year. It is so bad and I am so mad that I won't be getting back those 2.5 hours. But Sneha, I hear you say, why did you go through with this? Here's why - when I was in ninth grade, this was the book. Everyone was reading it, raving about it, loving it! And in my lockdown state of mind, I thought “what could be more comforting than maybe reading a book my ninth-grade self wanted to read and enjoy that nostalgic ride and forget the reality!”. And oh boy, was I wrong.
To be clear, I am fine with characters been bad, incapable, ignorant overall shtty human beings. I get that, a book doesn't owe it to be to provide brilliant characters whom I'll marvel and adore and idolise. What I don't enjoy is a celebration of these subpar fictional human beings as “heroes” and “heroines” - making them an aspirational figure. When you show a troubled protagonist, you see their stories and their flaws with it and all of that is inculcated in the narrative with ease and intention. So, my problem with this book is two-fold. If this is meant for a teenage audience then you're selling some really dodgy and questionable romantic aspirations for teens here, Ms Perkins. Which would be okay if you projected them as problematic issues instead of absolutely romanticising them. We have this “adorkable” female lead whose ignorance isn't cute but recanting the male-gaze of cute young dumb blonde - that its okay to be dumb if you're cute trope and no, we are not having any more of that nonsense, thank you very much! The lead male is, well, a cheater. Spin it the way you want but if you want to be with this girl just end things or clarify things with that girl before. You're not hot enough to be that emotionally unstable, sorry. I am just so annoyed that a book as recent as 2011 is still selling and propagating these toxic, 19th-century ideals of romance, male-female dynamics, pumped with pure annoying American-French stereotypes. This is a book about the top 1% complaining about how hard the first world problems are and that's not even the most annoying bit. This lead is a brilliant example of why Americans enjoy the “ignorant, bigoted and privileged” stereotype. I primarily picked this book to enjoy Paris and read more about the city through the eyes of late teens but this book doesn't completely acknowledge the city, let alone give it respect. If your book is centred around “being in Paris”, do the city some justice?! tl;dr I dunno why this book enjoys such popularity, love and appreciation. It is beyond me. The story is a snowman made out of cliches, characters are lousy, writing is lazy and I couldn't find one redeeming quality. Do yourself a favour, don't let its 4+ rating on Goodreads trick you - it's absolute sht, don't read.
This is just so super cute that you cannot finish reading it and not have a huge smile on your face!
I liked the characters, the witty banter, the way the relationships progressed and had their moments. I also really loved the setting of Paris which is a gorgeous city.
It was just a load of enjoyable fluffy romance and exactly what I was after!
⭐️⭐️⭐️3.5/5🌟
It's was a really fun, light and fast read. It wasn't the best book i've ever read but i still had a really good time reading it. It had bad moments for me like the exaggerating in some scenes, the fact that she loves his hair wayyyy to much and 1 or 2 unrealistic scenes.
It was a good book and I recommend it 😊
Aku berharap menyukai buku ini, dgn membaca byk review positif dari org2 yg ak follow di GR. Tapi ternyata hem, biasa saja.
Anna dikirim ke Paris untuk sekolah asrama oleh ayahnya, disana ketemu cowok yg mempesona yg bikin Anna suka, sayangnya si cowok, St Clair udh punya pacar. Morality, shocking right, me, of all people, care about morality. SHUT THE FRONT DOOR.
Ini mirip dgn Colleen Hoover's Maybe Someday, yg sbnrnya ceritanya manis, tapi krn jd org ketiga hem, menjatuhkan rating. Bedanya ini untuk YA. Nah, gpp sih, namanya juga remaja, hati berubah tergantung mood. Makanya ak memberi buku ini kesempatan.
Super cute. But it felt a little sloppy, like it needed to be edited one final time. The pacing's rather inconsistent but Perkins has a really engaging style and I fully plan on picking up her later books because I feel like she might become awesome with a little time to develop.
Cute!!! sweet read!!!! I tore through this book so quick it was so brilliant and charming!!!! it made long to return and spend more time in Paris!!!!!
There is a big amount of cheating in this book It's problematic, most the book is about St. Clair cheating on his girlfriend . I did enjoy it , I thought that it was entertaining but I had a big problem it.
love is simply if you love someone just tell that person about your feelings and if you're with someone that you don't love that much anymore just tell that person about your feelings then break up cause it isn't fair for either of you.
Anna is a character that I didn't like much but she is okay , St. Clair in the other hand is a character that I loved with his many flaws.
3 stars.
This was quite enjoyable altough I had my problems with the book.
- Anna was naive and judging. All. the. fucking. time! She assumed things about her friends and family (or more like Étiennes family) without asking or knowing them a bit. This combines with the next point drived me nuts and I put the book down for the last 50 pages.
- Show don't tell. Despite a few conversations there wasn't much ‘evil' doing from his father. He was mean but not as mean as told.
- Miscommunication of doom.
- The bullying aspect was unnessesary and not resolved at all. The little help Lola gave wasn't really a good measurement to give a good lesson except ‘bullying is bad'.
The cheating aspect wasn't my issue. Since we only saw Ellie like.... 10 pages? For me, it felt like Ellie wasn't even there (despite the fact that Anna lost her own head over her like every third page).
Lowering my rating to 2 stars because in contrast to Lola and Isla, Anna had a serious case of double standards (slutshaming, I'm not like other girls syndrome, egocentric behaviour towards her own friends, etc.).
I am usually not one for romances.
But this... this one I was totally, 100% for. It was so adorable and I loved almost every second of it. In the first 100 pages, there was a cliche part, and I thought to myself, this'll be a tough one to get through. Thank the good lord I was wrong. Yes, there was that one part, but the rest was so good it just didn't end up mattering.
I absolutely adored the characters. I found Anna easy to relate to. She had so many flaws that just made her seem so realistic. That was probably one of my favorite parts of the book. All of the characters were flawed in some way, which just made them so much more believable.
The plot is great and moves at a fantastic pace so that the reader isn't bored but they aren't confused either because the book is just flying by. It just oozes with drama that advances the plot and makes sense with the setting, which is Paris. It references the city so many times, which is phenomenal.
On a side note, today I had a crepe for the first time, and I was in love instantly. It may not have been French, but it was still really. Freaking. Good.
The romance itself is wonderful. It's irritating and enjoyable all at once, and I was incredibly pleased by it. It seemed so real too, which I loved even more.
All in all, it was fantastic and I definitely reccommend it!
As a French gal, I've been several times in Paris. A lot, actually. And this book was by far one of the best trips I've ever done there. Like... really.
I was really hoping I was going to love this book, but it was just okay. I felt the plot seemed a little juvenile in the way it was presented. The story didn't get interesting until I was about 80% done with the book. I may read the next book in the series just to see what happens to the characters. Overall, this book could have been better, but I think if I was around the ages of 14-16 I would have enjoyed this book a lot more.
Oh-My-God. That was the cutest, most frustratingly romantic YA contemporary I have ever read in my entire life. Oh-My-God. Yes. I did finish this in one single day.
I like the writing style. Started off really cute but turned way too love-triangly by the end for me. Otherwise, it does bring back memories of high school and how all girls think when it comes to relationships during those years. I laughed when thinking of myself doing some of the same things as Anna way back when.
This is a sweet love story, but I wish the extras with the triangle had been left out.
I like the way this story unfolded. I love the characters and the romance. I would have liked it if there wasn't a love triangle but I am coming to accept that they happen in most contemporary YA romances.
4.5/5 Stars. Amazing just as great as everyone says it was. I absolutely love Stephanie Perkins writing style and cannot wait to read Lola and the Boy Next Door.
It was too cute for words.
August 2018 reread 4.75 stars
I still think it's adorable
