Anna and the French Kiss // Review

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Published on December 2nd, 2010 by Dutton Juvenile
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased
Buy It: Amazon • The Book Depository • Goodreads 
My Rating: 5/5 stars

"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 Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming,beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?" 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Synopsis from Goodreads

Anna and the French Kiss is a cute, fluffy contemporary that is a great mood lifter. I read this book in one day and it was absolutely perfect, I have no complaints whatsoever. I enjoyed every moment and I wish it was longer so I could read more about Étienne!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is the ultimate book boyfriend: cute, smart, foreign, oh and did i mention, REALLY DANG CUTE???

This book gave me all of the feels. First of all, Étienne is 2nd on my list of top book boyfriends (Noah Shaw coming in at number 1, of course) and I wish he was real so that he could date me..pls. I really like Anna as well, she seems like someone I would want to be friends with. I really don't know how to put my feelings about this book into words... it was just so cute and it was a great book to read during a read-a-thon because it was quick and easy to read. Once I finished this book, I actually searched about the school that they were attending and I asked my mom if I could go because then I could find my own Étienne.
__________________________________________________________________________________

QUOTES:

“Most people in Atlanta don't have an accent. It's pretty urban. A lot of people speak gangsta, though," I add jokingly. 
"Fo' shiz," he replies in his polite English accent. 

I spurt orangey-red soup across the table. St. Clair gives a surprised ha-HA kind of laugh, and I'm laughing too, the painful kind like abdominal crunches. He hands me a napkin to wipe my chin. "Fo'. Shiz." He repeats it solemnly.

Cough cough. "Please don't ever stop saying that. It's too-" I gasp. "Much."

"You oughtn't to have said that. Now I shall have to save it for special occasions."

"My birthday is in February." Cough choke wheeze. "Please don't forget.” 

//
“This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Bridgette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home.

I mull this over as our voices grow tired and we stop talking. We just keep each other company. My breath. His breath. My breath. His breath. I could never tell him, but it's true.

This is home. The two of us.” 

__________________________________________________________________________________

THIS BOOK IN ONE GIF:

__________________________________________________________________________________

I would recomend this book to anyone looking for a quick contemporary with a super swoon worthy boy! Stephanie Perkins created such a feel good romance and I cannot wait to read Lola and the Boy Next Door and Isla and the Happily Ever After!

P.S. THANK YOU BRIANNA FOR CONVINCING ME TO READ THIS!!!!  

-Ana :)