"You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions."
—Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Title: Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss #1)
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Page Count: 372 (Paperback)
Synopsis:
Can Anna find love in the City of Light?
Anna is happy in Atlanta. She has a loyal best friend and a crush on her coworker at the movie theater, who is just starting to return her affection. So she's less than thrilled when her father decides to send her to a boarding school in Paris for her senior year.
But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna meets some cool new people, including the handsome Étienne St. Clair, who quickly becomes her best friend. Unfortunately, he's taken —and Anna might be, too. Will a year of romantic near misses end with the French kiss she's waiting for?
Anna is happy in Atlanta. She has a loyal best friend and a crush on her coworker at the movie theater, who is just starting to return her affection. So she's less than thrilled when her father decides to send her to a boarding school in Paris for her senior year.
But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna meets some cool new people, including the handsome Étienne St. Clair, who quickly becomes her best friend. Unfortunately, he's taken —and Anna might be, too. Will a year of romantic near misses end with the French kiss she's waiting for?
Thoughts:
Read for Arithmancy Prompt for O.W.L.s Magical Readathon 2020 (Magical qualities of number 2: balance/opposites - read something outside your favourite genre). My favourite genres are horror, thriller, psychological and mystery but I find that I still reach for contemporaries and family oriented ones. I would very much like to read classics too, I just don't know where to start. What I'm not much drawn into are fantasy and romance but I read a lot of fantasy last year so I opted for romance for this prompt.
As much as I enjoyed majority of the book (thanks to the setting, I learned some new things), I sometimes can't help but be annoyed with Anna Oliphant and Étienne St. Clair. Throughout the book, I try to convince myself that Anna has redeeming qualities when I read about her thoughts and doubts but still! Ugh she became more and more unbearable towards the end, I wanted to cry out of frustration. She abhors the people that bullies her at school but her thoughts mimic their meanness anyway. I quoted the line above, but boy was there stereotyping in this book! XD Blond girl crushing on your love interest? Definitely a B. Main-girl-doesn't-know-she-is-attractive/beautiful trope is also present. So if you are one of the people who are so done with this, it will add to the reasons why you would roll your eyes while reading this book. And St. Clair! I don't even know where to begin.
I think Meredith also has problems but it's forgivable compared to the two main protagonists lol. At least she admits to her mistakes. Oh well, at least the story was light enough and is still educational so I wasn't mad about it to rate it low.
Final Verdict: I still like it but I'm not ecstatic about it. It was an okay experience but I'm pretty sure I won't be friends with the likes of Anna. I'd rather have Rashmi--i don't know. Will I check out the other books tied to the "series"? Maybe. I'm kind of interested what's in store for Isla.
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