Anna and the French Kiss

  

Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins
400 Pages

For 90% or so of the book it was great reading and a real surprise. Anna is a fun, easy to relate to character and a very smart girl (even if she did whine a little bit too much about her horrible father sending her to Paris. I get homesick too.) Her friends are lovely the relationship with St. Clair has a nice build to it and the descriptions of Paris made me want to hop on a plane and stay for the whole year because I didn’t know what sounded better spring or winter.

 It wasn’t that the last ten percent of the book was bad per say it definitely just descended into your typical teenage crying in the streets everything is the end of the world because he doesn’t/might not love me as much as he does/might love his girlfriend. Yeah, Anna pretty much unravels before coming to some hard truths about herself. Hey annoying as she gets in that part I guess give her the credit for coming to those truths especially about her relationships with her Paris BFF and her Atlanta BFF.

I’d still recommend it despite not loving the angst stuff. It’s a fast, fun and mostly enjoyable read.

BONUS: I love when I read books and I get ideas from the books about other stories or authors that I want to read and I took quite a few from this one including; Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Like Water for Chocolate, Pablo Neruda's poetry and finding a good Rasputin biography. All of which went right onto my wish list!