'Filled with romantic nearmisses, Anna and the French Kiss is a charming, down to earth book'
Anna and the French Kiss follows Anna Oliphant in her senior year of high school. Except, she's not graduating at her school in Atlanta. She's at SOAP: the School of America in Paris. While Anna struggles to master the language and continue her film review blog, she finds herself falling head over heels for Etienne St. Clair who just so happens to have a girlfriend.
Filled with romantic nearmisses, Anna and the French Kiss is a charming, down to earth book. For all of its drama, there was a definite sense of calm to the writing and the storyline that made the book very appealing, along with the vast amount of cute scenes in the book.
Relationships were a prominent theme and not just the romantic ones, but also relationships with fathers, mothers and parents, as well as sibling relationships and friendship driven ones. That constant throughout the book also helped it to stay quite relaxed because it focused in depth on one major theme.
In terms of characters, St. Clair was my favourite. He was funny, charming and described as brilliantly good-looking. While I don't always agree with the way he deals with his problems in the book, I'm still glad of the way the book ended for him. Other characters I liked were Rashmi and Anna. As a pair they don't have many scenes together but the ones they do share are funny and heartfelt. As a narrator, Anna is slightly grating in her constant inner monologue but overall she is an interesting female lead.
The cover of the book is adorable with the pink filter over the picture of Paris and the chalk effect heart in the corner. Overall, I adored this book and thought it was a perfect feelgood book for summer holidays.
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