The Cheesy itibaren Salia, Uttar Pradesh, India

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anna and the french kiss is not the typical YA "chick-lit" (god, i hate that word) novel you might make it out to be. a summary would seem cliche enough to fit this genre: anna oliphant is a girl from atlanta entering her senior year of high school, in paris. her dad ships her off to experience culture and the like, and anna isn't thrilled. back home, she has an almost-boyfriend, best friend, and little brother. but when she gets there and meets etienne st. clair, she falls almost insantly for him. he's british, beautiful, (afraid of heights,) and has a serious girlfriend. ~but in the city of light, wishes can come true~ and all that. you know there's gonna be a happy ending. and there is. but it's so much better than that. right there on the front page, i know i'll enjoy this book. the mention of films like moulin rouge! and amelie and even madeline assured me that i would not be disappointed with the rest of the book. i think nearly any girl can relate to anna, what she says, her fears and loves and the voice stephanie perkins gives her narrator is flawless. i feel like if i were placed in anna's situation, i would be having those exact same thoughts. it's impeccable. the novel is rich in details, like the beautiful views of the streets of paris and the smell of the bakery one busy afternoon. if i wanderlusted for paris before, it's nothing compared to now. as anna becomes best friends with st. clair, her secret love for him is contagious. i want an etienne of my own! the thing i liked most about the romance, though, is that it wasn't love at first sight, really. i mean, it was--but they were friends first. best friends. and that's the kind of relationship i, and probably most other teenage girls, would like to have. anna is so relatable, and to such a wide audience of girls. i'm no film critic nerd, but if anna were real, we could definitely be best friends. anna's other friends, and bully, are so, just, PERFECT that the characters practically seem real. these people could really exist, and i know people who do exist who are just like them. it's this eye to detail that makes the book so flawless. of course, there's drama throughout the novel, of course. anna returns home for winter break and finds out her almost-boyfriend and so-called best friend are not they add up to be. etienne's mother gets cancer and his dad is a total asshole. anna's friend meredith likes st. clair right along there with anna. and, of course, there's etienne's stupid girlfriend, who he's been fighting with for months but neither can bring themselves to dump the other. oh, and we can't forget that horrible bully girl, amanda, who teases anna relentlessly because she, too, likes st. clair. it's a bit ridiculous, how cliche this all sounds--but perkins handles it with such care and grace that you're swept up in the midst of it all and it consumes your thoughts when you're not reading, right alongside anna through the rough times. and, of course, there is the predictable happy ending. anna and etienne end up together, finally, finally (you are itching for them to kiss the entire time. the entire time. all you will want is for them to end up together, and thankfully, they do) they are. i know what you're thinking, cliche cliche cliche, but it's such a fun, easy, delightful read that you won't even notice. the ending is probably the best part, at least that's my immediate reaction. throughout the novel, anna struggles with the idea of home--first atlanta was her home, but when she returns and nothing is quite like how she left it, paris becomes her home. and then she realizes, finally, at the end, that home is not a place--it's a person. and she has found her home with st. clair, who will be going to school in san francisco with her next year. a new city, but home all the same. and the end just leaves you feeling so whole and happy that it's impossible to deny that this is a good, no, fantastic book. oh, also--the entire time i read the book i couldn't help but imagine alexander rybak as etienne! there was just something about him that made me envision that. and i've been looking at some fanmade graphics for the book, and i have to say, people out there have fantastic taste. if anna were ever to be made into a movie--and if they did it right and it earned favor in miss ophilant's eyes, i think it could be brilliant--i think aaron johnson and leighton meester could be a great etienne and anna. although, personally, the girl on the cover of the book is exactly how i would want anna to look. is she an actress? she should be. because if this were to be done right in hollywood, she would be perfect for the job.

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