Anna And The French Kiss

Source:  E-Book
Publisher: Dutton 
Age Group: Yong Adult – 12 Above
Pages: 372
Genre: Young Adult Romance
In Series: Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door (To-Be-Released), Isla and the Happily Ever After (TBR) 

Reading the title name, a primary school kid may go like, Eww! It had the word Kiss In IT!! A normal teenager boy doesn't pay a damn, a parent may ask her teenage already swooned daughter if the book is according to her age. 

When I came across it, I didn’t think much about it. All I knew was that this book was very much hyped about in the blogosphere world and that Mr. John Green, author of Looking for Alaska and Maureen Johnson, author of The 13 Little Blue Envelopes was fanatic over it. If Mr. John Green and Maureen Johnson liked it so much, it had to be good. Really Good.

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Anna’s family isn’t perfect and she is severely flawed. But just as things are becoming better then before, her dad ships her off to a boarding school in Paris. Of course she doesn’t want to go, she’ll have let go of her life in Atlanta, her best friend, her almost-to-be-boyfriend, her seven year old brother and her mom. Anna doesn’t sulk in Paris for long, she quickly becomes friends with a popular group of teenagers and most importantly with an unavailable boy called Etienne St. Clair. 

Style of writing:

The thing that attracted me to Anna and the French kiss beside the two main characters was the writing.

Check this out: “I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.”

The writing is my favourite aspect towards the book. Its ridiculously funny, its written perfectly, the timings are great and WOW, for a debut author Stephanie Perkins can write, she surely does know her stuff.

Stephanie Perkins has a thing for colorful streaks,

anyone noticed? Anna with white, Lola with purple

and the writer herself with blue. I know this is irrelevant.

But I love it!

Stephanie Perkins writes in such manner that the characters make the book itself and not the author. Anna and Etienne scream out REAL!! because Perkins has written in such a detailed manner you just want to fall into them and do whatever fun they do in boarding school.

To say the truth, this book isn’t a ground breaking novel and the story really isn’t really original. I mean almost all love stories are as such aren’t they? A girl and a boy who is taken by another girls but eventually the two love birds come together. Then why do I love this book so much? The true fact is that, I can see so many imperfections in it but I don’t want to see them at all. The characters are heavily flawed and are showed in such a teenage way. Anna and her friends are so true and honest you believe in there story entirely because it can be real. This story can be my best friends story. Who knows?

My Opinion:

“WOW! Wow !WoW! Did I mention WOW? I can re-read it again and again and again. WOOWWW!!!!”

Its ridiculously funny to see my so giddy and so badly hyped about a book I read a month back. I had to wait an entire month before reviewing it to you so I wont sound like any other hysterical teenager. Well, the wait was quite wrong because while writing this I feel more then hysteria.

I am DYING! I need this book NOW!

One of the saddest things that crossed my mind was “I’ve lived in Paris (I was only 1 year old) and I haven’t enjoyed it like Anna! The city is so beautifully described I was equally swooned by Paris then I was by St. Etienne. Although, the city is described in a clichéd manner it’s some amazing description for a person (aka Perkins ) who hasn’t even been to France.

And now to the romantic bit, I loved the two characters Anna and Eitenne (I've mentioned it before, sorry but I cant help it). I adore the fact that Etienne wasn’t great amazing and perfect. He was even more flawed then Anna herself. He was scared about leaving the past and making new decisions, he was afraid to get hurt and was much more confused then anyone in the book maybe save Josh. Another thing was he was really short, even shorter then Anna (Where do you see that?!) and definitely not your average ‘6 foot above guy who think you smell in you biology class and follow you around obsessively 24/7’ types. Etienne relied on Anna because they were best friends.

Its romantic, yes of course but other very important themes like individuality, confrontations, family, loyalty as such. The book is about  leaving you home facing a new world, confronting things and most of all growing up. I really look forward to reading more of Perkins and her next book is coming out September 29 2011. I hear Anna and St. Clair are going to be in it too!     

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