Nataly's First Review: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.

  

Synopsis: 

     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 Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home. 
     As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near-misses end with the french kiss Anna- and the readers - have long-awaited?
Thoughts:
 10038364562846554733/5 stars.  
      This book definitely lives up to it's hype. Ignore the iffy title, this book is awesome. Delightful. Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious. After reading this, it made  really want to go to a boarding school in France. Stephanie Perkins narration from Anna's point of view was hilarious and realistic. I really felt like I knew Anna and actually felt anger toward her parents with other emotions expressed throughtout the book. She was a normal character with really funny insight toward topics that I would love to be friends with.
      Now the boy. Etienne St. Clair. His name even sounds sexy and delicious. Really, I think he was every girl's description of their perfect guy. He was funny, smart, and oh, did I mention he was British?! Yeeah, i would date him any day. Anyways, he and Anna's realationship totally made this book a major page-turner. Another character that I really enjoyed reading about was her dad. He wasn't in very much of the book, but when he was it was all laughs. He was a Nicholas Sparks-esque writer (not that I have anything wrong with his novels) and the way he acted made you laugh and cringe at the same time.
     Overall, this book was a major hit with me and I will be looking out for Stephanie's net novel, Lola and the Boy Next Door, which comes out August 29.