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French Kissing Series Box Set: Seasons 1-3
At over 800 pages with 100+ 5-star reviews for the individual books, French Kissing is serialised fiction at its most dramatic, romantic and steamy. Perfect for binge reading!
Can best friends Claire and Juliette, along with their employee Steph, successfully navigate the drama of relationships — and find their soulmates along the way?
This title contains sensual language, ladies making love and possibly more feelings than you can process.
"Unbelievable, fantastic, gripping... the twist, the turns, the passion, the love. It’s all you would want and so much more"
"Great love scenes with a great ending ."
Can best friends Claire and Juliette, along with their employee Steph, successfully navigate the drama of relationships — and find their soulmates along the way?
This title contains sensual language, ladies making love and possibly more feelings than you can process.
"Unbelievable, fantastic, gripping... the twist, the turns, the passion, the love. It’s all you would want and so much more"
"Great love scenes with a great ending ."
1003 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 11, 2016
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Harper Bliss
139 books2,372 followersHarper Bliss is a best-selling lesbian romance author. Among her most-loved books are the highly dramatic French Kissing and the often thought-provoking Pink Bean series. She is the co-founder of My LesFic, a weekly newsletter offering discount deals on lesbian fiction.
Harper lived in Hong Kong for 7 years, travelled the world for a bit, and has now settled in Brussels (Belgium) with her wife and photogenic cat, Dolly Purrton.
Together with her wife, she hosts a weekly podcast called Harper Bliss & Her Mrs.
Harper lived in Hong Kong for 7 years, travelled the world for a bit, and has now settled in Brussels (Belgium) with her wife and photogenic cat, Dolly Purrton.
Together with her wife, she hosts a weekly podcast called Harper Bliss & Her Mrs.
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June 13, 2019
OK so I was reading this 800 + page series at the same time as Michelle Obama's biography for my hetero book club, and for the record, there could not be two more different books to switch back and forth with. I went from learning about Michelle's arduous bus route to school throughout various Chicago neighbourhoods to Juliette being full out naked, splayed and spanked joyously. What a head trip.
I wasn't fully sure what I was getting into with this series but was pleasantly surprised that it took way longer to get through these three seasons than I expected (me normally being a very fast reader), and I found I really like Ms. Bliss's writing. This was a mega beefed up L Word for adults in a beautiful Parisian world, and would make a damn hot television series if it weren't for those pesky censors. It read like a full on soap opera bordering telenovella, and some parts and characters were very unrealistic, but I am ok with unrealistic if the execution is solid, and Ms. Bliss does just that.
It was interesting to read continuously b/c i found myself flip-flopping with my connection to the characters, and I kind of loved this. In season 1 I was Team Claire all the way, an unapologetic 40-something, successful, gorgeous and confident lady who had her casual dalliances with no regrets, and really seemed to be the glue of the group. In season two I wanted to bang her head against the bottom rung of the Eiffel Tower till her eyes crossed, and in season 3 I wanted to ship her off on my boat to Nevercomingback along with Nickelback, Drake and patchouli oil. Unfortunately Margot remained really boring throughout, and I'm waiting and hoping for some oomph with her....like is a long lost mob relative from Korea going to come shake up her world? Give us something cool! Steph was somewhat hard for me to get a handle on, and it took me awhile to warm up to her and Dominique but I eventually got there. And I quite enjoyed the back and forth continuous dramas with Juliette and Nadia. We get a lot more of Juliette's past and her traumas which only strengthens her character development, even if I didn't always agree with her decisions. I do hope for more of Nadia's past to be revealed in the following seasons, as she is often the Zen Garden of the group and the most rational, even if her behaviour doesn't always match these attributes.
There is a lot of cheating and infidelity and breaking up and reconciling and love and hate and angst. Basically, all topics are touched upon, which kept me on my toes. I had many negative reactions to some of the content but the author always found a way to turn a corner and keep me reading. There is also a strong theme among all couples of one being submissive and the other partner being dominant, so this BDSM stance took some getting used to and prompted me to try to learn a little more about this culture. Not all is up my alley personally, but I remain respectful and do like being challenged from usual vanilla romance. And there is a helluva lotta sex in this series, believe you me! Wooo!
Looking forward to the next seasons, and HBO take notice!
I wasn't fully sure what I was getting into with this series but was pleasantly surprised that it took way longer to get through these three seasons than I expected (me normally being a very fast reader), and I found I really like Ms. Bliss's writing. This was a mega beefed up L Word for adults in a beautiful Parisian world, and would make a damn hot television series if it weren't for those pesky censors. It read like a full on soap opera bordering telenovella, and some parts and characters were very unrealistic, but I am ok with unrealistic if the execution is solid, and Ms. Bliss does just that.
It was interesting to read continuously b/c i found myself flip-flopping with my connection to the characters, and I kind of loved this. In season 1 I was Team Claire all the way, an unapologetic 40-something, successful, gorgeous and confident lady who had her casual dalliances with no regrets, and really seemed to be the glue of the group. In season two I wanted to bang her head against the bottom rung of the Eiffel Tower till her eyes crossed, and in season 3 I wanted to ship her off on my boat to Nevercomingback along with Nickelback, Drake and patchouli oil. Unfortunately Margot remained really boring throughout, and I'm waiting and hoping for some oomph with her....like is a long lost mob relative from Korea going to come shake up her world? Give us something cool! Steph was somewhat hard for me to get a handle on, and it took me awhile to warm up to her and Dominique but I eventually got there. And I quite enjoyed the back and forth continuous dramas with Juliette and Nadia. We get a lot more of Juliette's past and her traumas which only strengthens her character development, even if I didn't always agree with her decisions. I do hope for more of Nadia's past to be revealed in the following seasons, as she is often the Zen Garden of the group and the most rational, even if her behaviour doesn't always match these attributes.
There is a lot of cheating and infidelity and breaking up and reconciling and love and hate and angst. Basically, all topics are touched upon, which kept me on my toes. I had many negative reactions to some of the content but the author always found a way to turn a corner and keep me reading. There is also a strong theme among all couples of one being submissive and the other partner being dominant, so this BDSM stance took some getting used to and prompted me to try to learn a little more about this culture. Not all is up my alley personally, but I remain respectful and do like being challenged from usual vanilla romance. And there is a helluva lotta sex in this series, believe you me! Wooo!
Looking forward to the next seasons, and HBO take notice!
April 2, 2021
I've had this to read for months now - this is the 3rd time I've started this and I just don't buy the story: it's a saga, boasting 800 pages plus but I really don't like the 4 M/Cs. I give up.
March 2, 2019
Once I started reading this. I realized I have read a couple episodes before. It was definitely better reading all three together. I had read some reviews before I started and wasn’t sure what to expect. Well...the book didn’t disappoint. Booze, drama, sex, and some more booze. I loved the group of characters and how they all fell together. I can’t wait for the next one!
May 30, 2019
I've never read a book, far less for a complete drama series that had my emotions knotted up and I couldn't think of anything else except getting back to the story to find out what would happen next. This box set should be reserved for long weekends with bank holidays included because I made the error of reading this story during the work week and I couldn't focus on work because I just wanted to know if Nadia and Juliette would be okay, I wanted to comfort Steph and I got heavily invested in Claire and Margot's relationship as well. These unforgettable and flawed women blew me away because no other writer has brought lesbian drama to the forefront like this superb author. This entire series should be made into television series because I would make sure that I am one of the first viewers!
July 30, 2020
2.25* And yes, I know I'm an outlier, but I read to 50% but I really couldn't go any further.
Ostensibly set in a PR company in Paris, I saw little evidence of PR in play at all. Most of the story was about drinking, havings meetings to talk about personal issues, talking about sex and partners, getting drunk, and getting laid. Oh and lots of drama, handcuffs and tops and bottoms.
It reads like some soap opera of the sort that spends an entire season on one or two nights. So we flip POV so often the head spins and it is hard to get to understand anyone at all. Of course, the character personality filters in overtime but I really did not care much for any of the characters at all.
This style also creates. maintains, and promotes drama-rama to the extent that the drama creates more drama. oh and when you have had enough of that it throws in lots of sex, lots of dom, trust issues, and to me unsatisfying sex.
One book might have been OK. But three?
Sorry, I truly can't see the good in this when it just goes on and on.
Ostensibly set in a PR company in Paris, I saw little evidence of PR in play at all. Most of the story was about drinking, havings meetings to talk about personal issues, talking about sex and partners, getting drunk, and getting laid. Oh and lots of drama, handcuffs and tops and bottoms.
It reads like some soap opera of the sort that spends an entire season on one or two nights. So we flip POV so often the head spins and it is hard to get to understand anyone at all. Of course, the character personality filters in overtime but I really did not care much for any of the characters at all.
This style also creates. maintains, and promotes drama-rama to the extent that the drama creates more drama. oh and when you have had enough of that it throws in lots of sex, lots of dom, trust issues, and to me unsatisfying sex.
One book might have been OK. But three?
Sorry, I truly can't see the good in this when it just goes on and on.
September 25, 2017
Oh the drama!
I'd been thinking of reading the "French Kissing" series for a while, then the crossover with Harper Bliss' fantastic, and slightly less soap opera like, "Pink Bean" series came around and I was enthralled by Dominique and Stephanie's story. I had to pick up the original to find out how those fascinating women came to be together. Plus I wanted to continue reading about Zoya and Camille (Pink Bean 4: This Foreign Affair) when the next season of "French Kissing" comes around. I wasn't sure if I'd like the more soap opera style story, but I think I'm hooked. The eye roll moments are held to a reasonable level and there seems to be some reasonable character growth. Not that some of them don't seem to regress back into bad habits and make horrible choices on a regular basis. (I expect Claire to take the information she learned about Steph's old habits and mess up royally after some issues with her biker doctor. It just fits her self destructive style. And the parasitic neurosurgeon will have two extra people to try to seduce next season...) All in all, it's a lot of fun.
I'd been thinking of reading the "French Kissing" series for a while, then the crossover with Harper Bliss' fantastic, and slightly less soap opera like, "Pink Bean" series came around and I was enthralled by Dominique and Stephanie's story. I had to pick up the original to find out how those fascinating women came to be together. Plus I wanted to continue reading about Zoya and Camille (Pink Bean 4: This Foreign Affair) when the next season of "French Kissing" comes around. I wasn't sure if I'd like the more soap opera style story, but I think I'm hooked. The eye roll moments are held to a reasonable level and there seems to be some reasonable character growth. Not that some of them don't seem to regress back into bad habits and make horrible choices on a regular basis. (I expect Claire to take the information she learned about Steph's old habits and mess up royally after some issues with her biker doctor. It just fits her self destructive style. And the parasitic neurosurgeon will have two extra people to try to seduce next season...) All in all, it's a lot of fun.
April 3, 2018
OMG!! I am so glad I was able to read all at once! Don't think I would have been able to handle waiting for each season. I love when an author can take me on a roller coaster of emotions and Harper Bliss has done exactly that with French Kissing! I laughed, cried, cheered & screamed as if I was there with them! And of course, had to fan myself several times from those sizzling love scenes! Whew! This seriously needs to be on television as a weekly show!
April 7, 2019
Perfectly detailed, emotionally and zigzag-adly draining with the depth of infidelity, and major life events-navigating through all characters’ POVs. I never arrived at peace with Jules’ and Nadia’s relationship (though kept looking to identify with it more), nor with Margot and Claire’s. I rooted for Steph and Dominique from start to finish perhaps attracted to the strength and empowerment of their characters. Like so many relationships, theirs starts assertively through physical intimacy, feels hallow after they fall “in lust,” mistaking it for love, and then finally realize they are magnetized together so work on developing something sustainable within the bubble of a national election campaign. Hard to relate to that bubble but one may identify with the emotional sequence, and figuring it out during the hardest of times if you don’t want to give in. At one point, probably about 55-60% of the way through, I was trudging through, determined to finish the book just to say so. Usually I enjoy Harper Bliss’ perfect composition and detail so this surprised me. So many levels of interpersonal relationships in this book: parental, children, spouses, lovers, friends, business partners! The reader better at compartmentalizing could read through it all as a distraction. For the likes of me, however, this is not a beach read, though it’s rife with enough explicit details to ratchet up your rate of breathing now and then; this is a journey—the end of which you might wonder if you’re better for having taken it.
Four stars for its perfect composition, and all the ways I was led to feel but I wouldn’t read it again, and didn’t even think to bookmark the deliciously steamy parts.
Four stars for its perfect composition, and all the ways I was led to feel but I wouldn’t read it again, and didn’t even think to bookmark the deliciously steamy parts.
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January 16, 2019
Long and complicated and full of exciting twists
I really should have broken up my reading of this more, with other books in between. This sounds like a complaint, but it's not when you realize this is three huge books in one, and just a lot to digest. And so much drama, I could have used a "palate cleanser" book in between.
One thing I enjoyed about this - and I won't say it very well, unfortunately - is that the main characters would get themselves into a deep hole and then philosophically think "this is the way things are," and then things would change doe the better.
Watching the progression (and sometimes regression) of the relationships of the main characters (and their love interests) was fun and often comforting.
I really should have broken up my reading of this more, with other books in between. This sounds like a complaint, but it's not when you realize this is three huge books in one, and just a lot to digest. And so much drama, I could have used a "palate cleanser" book in between.
One thing I enjoyed about this - and I won't say it very well, unfortunately - is that the main characters would get themselves into a deep hole and then philosophically think "this is the way things are," and then things would change doe the better.
Watching the progression (and sometimes regression) of the relationships of the main characters (and their love interests) was fun and often comforting.
April 30, 2022
2.75 stars. I really expected to enjoy this, but… I felt it a bit of a chore. It did get better as it went along (I think there wasn’t enough connection between the characters early in the book, and too many characters treated the women they love horribly).
To try to put it succinctly: this book felt to me like it didn’t know whether to be erotica, romance, or some hybrid of the two, and I found it difficult to connect with too many of the book’s characters.
To try to put it succinctly: this book felt to me like it didn’t know whether to be erotica, romance, or some hybrid of the two, and I found it difficult to connect with too many of the book’s characters.
January 12, 2020
the format of this one did not do it for me. The story was good enough that I finished and somewhat enjoyed it, but it's written like an ongoing tv series rather than as a novel and that structure was not as compelling to me. I suppose there is a hint about that in the title but I it took me a while to realise that this was more than a bit of clever wordplay.
March 5, 2017
Interesting story line
I liked this book. It was not my favorite of the Harper Bliss novels I've read, but it was good and kept my attention enough to finish all three seasons. I would recommend this novel to my friends
I liked this book. It was not my favorite of the Harper Bliss novels I've read, but it was good and kept my attention enough to finish all three seasons. I would recommend this novel to my friends
September 1, 2017
I hope to help there's a sequel!!
I'm in love with the characters, and could completely picture their lives, interactions, dramas...and, not to forget the steamy sex scenes. Please bring more of Claire & Margot!
I'm in love with the characters, and could completely picture their lives, interactions, dramas...and, not to forget the steamy sex scenes. Please bring more of Claire & Margot!
April 6, 2018
So good!
Oh my god, I couldn't stop reading this! All the wonderful lesbian drama and sex in this was enough to keep me reading as much as I could whenever I could. Excellent series!
Oh my god, I couldn't stop reading this! All the wonderful lesbian drama and sex in this was enough to keep me reading as much as I could whenever I could. Excellent series!
July 30, 2020
always writes a good book
The women in this book can be a little tiring. One problem after another but it keeps you involved in the story. You find yourself pulling for some and wanting to knock off the outside problem causers.
The women in this book can be a little tiring. One problem after another but it keeps you involved in the story. You find yourself pulling for some and wanting to knock off the outside problem causers.
August 31, 2017
Great
Loved the stories about all the women. They are great friends. The stories are well written and I have been binge reading. Great love scenes with a great ending.
Loved the stories about all the women. They are great friends. The stories are well written and I have been binge reading. Great love scenes with a great ending.
April 8, 2018
Loved it!
Omg! These books were great! These really played out like a soap opera on tv. I can't wait to read season 4!
Omg! These books were great! These really played out like a soap opera on tv. I can't wait to read season 4!
May 16, 2018
Worthy of binge reading!
I fell in love with the characters right from the beginning. Great writing! Thank you Harper Bliss! Next purchase, Season 4.
I fell in love with the characters right from the beginning. Great writing! Thank you Harper Bliss! Next purchase, Season 4.
June 3, 2018
Couldn't get into. Like other Harper Bliss books, just not this series.
April 28, 2019
Fabulous series
I just loved this series. All the ups and downs in relationships. I would recommend this series to anyone. I can't wait to read the next book.
I just loved this series. All the ups and downs in relationships. I would recommend this series to anyone. I can't wait to read the next book.
February 6, 2022
Hot!! sexy!! Drama!!
Great Lesbian Drama!! Roller coaster ride with each of the main characters. I could not get enough. I definitely recommend this series.
Great Lesbian Drama!! Roller coaster ride with each of the main characters. I could not get enough. I definitely recommend this series.
July 8, 2019
Amazing box set, every single story mixing so nicely together. All the characters with full feelings and emotions. So lovely series which I couldn't put down. Well down Harper Bliss once again you impressed me.
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