Li's Reviews > Anna and the French Kiss
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Anna and the French Kiss
by Stephanie Perkins (Goodreads Author)
by Stephanie Perkins (Goodreads Author)
Li's review
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Apr 26, 11
Recommended to Li by:
Everyone!
Read in March, 2011 — I own a copy
So much hype around this book... and yeah, totally well-deserved.
It's a feel-good book that avoids being too fairytale-like, because the characters are just, well, real. I liked how both Anna and St Clair had had flaws, and I think that made the story more believable - things aren't always black-and-white in real life either.
I thought the voice and the setting was spot-on - it very much reminded me of my college/university days (though sadly without a St Clair). So that was a bonus, as I obviously identified with Anna's fish-out-of-water feelings and rooted for her as she settled into her new life.
I have to say St Clair's "sexy" British accent threw me, as I couldn't quite place it and it kept on taking me out of the story. And the British swearwords - umm, they verged on the rude side! I'm sure the equivalent American swearwords were not used. I think.
But moving on... there was some excellent chemistry between Anna and St Clair, and the falling-in-love part was done beautifully.
Oh, and the ending? Perfect.
It's a feel-good book that avoids being too fairytale-like, because the characters are just, well, real. I liked how both Anna and St Clair had had flaws, and I think that made the story more believable - things aren't always black-and-white in real life either.
I thought the voice and the setting was spot-on - it very much reminded me of my college/university days (though sadly without a St Clair). So that was a bonus, as I obviously identified with Anna's fish-out-of-water feelings and rooted for her as she settled into her new life.
I have to say St Clair's "sexy" British accent threw me, as I couldn't quite place it and it kept on taking me out of the story. And the British swearwords - umm, they verged on the rude side! I'm sure the equivalent American swearwords were not used. I think.
But moving on... there was some excellent chemistry between Anna and St Clair, and the falling-in-love part was done beautifully.
Oh, and the ending? Perfect.
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I started this book and then set it aside. I must have quit too soon. Where I got was when Anna gets there and she's homesick and she's just met her new classmates and St. Clair and I felt the story just was for lack of a better description "doing nothing" but going through the school routine. I don't like that.
Hey Keishon - yes, it took a while (agree the first part was school routine - which I liked, but then I'm a big fan of academy-type stories) but Stephanie Perkins then introduced an external conflict which kicked the underlying internal conflicts into life. I'm in two minds about whether that should have come a bit earlier - on one hand, part of the charm was reading about Anna settling in, making friends, discovering Paris etc, but on the other, like you said, it did mean a slow-ish start.
