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A review by pil4r
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
5.0
JEEZ.
This was so so great.
I'm not one to read a lot fantasy books but I KNOW this is the book you read when you're mourning and you need to smile and swoon and awwwww.
For starters the characters were GREAT. So relatable, so easy to follow their thoughts. They are all so different and quirky in their own ways, they're fun to read, you just want to know more and more about them. I loved how most of their backstories make sense with how they behaved as characters.
Anna was so lovable and witty. She had flaws but she always ended up being aware of them and tried to fix stuff. Her voice as a narrator made everything funnier.
It was also extremely difficult not to swoon for St.Clair like: BRITISH accent, INTO HISTORY, CUTE, FUNNY /AND/ NICE (he wasn't an actual douche in any part of the book. VICTORY??). I'm OUT. AND He did have flaws but I really liked that. I love when characters face their mistakes and their shitty stuff.
There were times in which Anna got too hormonal and seemed to worship St.Clair and that was a bit too much. But then again, we are dealing with teenagers, so. AND I was a little troubled about how she was a bit of a snob when she came back to Atlanta for Christmas. But that somehow made her a realer person.
Stephanie Perkins built these characters extremely well.
PARIS, is another aspect itself. The descriptions made me feel I was actually there, getting to know the city as Anna did.
Although, what I need to highlight the most about this book is the main couple's build up. Also extremely well built, it had me "will they? won't they" all the freaking time. It was pure emotion: sexual tension, teen angst, fury and confusion. Sometimes the friends-to-lovers build up can get dense but this wasn't the case at all. The twists had me going all the time, I just couldn't stop reading. And that's what made me fall in love with St. Clair, the couple and the book itself.
We could discuse if this book is over-hyped or not, but it IS awesome and lovesy cutesy fluffy funny swoon-worthy and maybe the epitome of YA contemporaries. I really can't help but give it 5 glowing stars.
This was so so great.
I'm not one to read a lot fantasy books but I KNOW this is the book you read when you're mourning and you need to smile and swoon and awwwww.
For starters the characters were GREAT. So relatable, so easy to follow their thoughts. They are all so different and quirky in their own ways, they're fun to read, you just want to know more and more about them. I loved how most of their backstories make sense with how they behaved as characters.
Anna was so lovable and witty. She had flaws but she always ended up being aware of them and tried to fix stuff. Her voice as a narrator made everything funnier.
It was also extremely difficult not to swoon for St.Clair like: BRITISH accent, INTO HISTORY, CUTE, FUNNY /AND/ NICE (he wasn't an actual douche in any part of the book. VICTORY??). I'm OUT. AND He did have flaws but I really liked that. I love when characters face their mistakes and their shitty stuff.
There were times in which Anna got too hormonal and seemed to worship St.Clair and that was a bit too much. But then again, we are dealing with teenagers, so. AND I was a little troubled about how she was a bit of a snob when she came back to Atlanta for Christmas. But that somehow made her a realer person.
Stephanie Perkins built these characters extremely well.
PARIS, is another aspect itself. The descriptions made me feel I was actually there, getting to know the city as Anna did.
Although, what I need to highlight the most about this book is the main couple's build up. Also extremely well built, it had me "will they? won't they" all the freaking time. It was pure emotion: sexual tension, teen angst, fury and confusion. Sometimes the friends-to-lovers build up can get dense but this wasn't the case at all. The twists had me going all the time, I just couldn't stop reading. And that's what made me fall in love with St. Clair, the couple and the book itself.
We could discuse if this book is over-hyped or not, but it IS awesome and lovesy cutesy fluffy funny swoon-worthy and maybe the epitome of YA contemporaries. I really can't help but give it 5 glowing stars.