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Jan 31, 2017 Charlene rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I don't know why, but I didn't feel the love. I struggled a lot with this one, I'm surprised I finished it at all. ...more

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Jan 12, 2015 Piepie | The Napping Bibliophile rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, paris, pretty-covers, read-in-2015, favorites

Paris! A hot young guy with great hair! An awkward, adorable girl! These are the elements of "Anna and the French Kiss."

Anna was a good character- she was imperfect, naive, and all too human. At times she did strike me as being a little dumb/blonde, but she has to be admired for the way she hung on to her love for Etienne St. Clair practically all year. The wildly popular St. Clair - with a few personal demons of his own - drove me crazy by the way he spent time with Anna, but had a girlfriend, ...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-fiction, ya-romance, coming-of-age

Despite being short, Étienne St. Clair not only has amazing hair and slightly crooked-cute bottom teeth, but also is a perfect combination of French maturity and American goofiness – with a British accent! Does it get any better? Anna doesn’t think so. But it could get worse. St. Clair (as everyone calls him) is taken.
Anna and the French Kiss begins with Anna’s move for her senior year in high school from Atlanta to and exclusive boarding school in Paris. It is tricky at first, because the schoo ...more

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Dec 25, 2016 Lisa added it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, ya-lit

Yes, it is a cute story. It's mushy and accordingly intense with teenaged angst. I also think it is a subliminal method for getting teenagers to learn vocabulary,rudimentary French, and history. There was a lot of info dumps in those areas; not complaining. I enjoyed the book despite not being in the demographic for it and so the never ending angst got a little old after a while. ...more

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Apr 22, 2012 Celeste rated it liked it · review of another edition

Fun young adult romance. Fast read and entertaining. The characters misunderstandings are frustrating at times, but it was worth the read.

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Dec 06, 2016 Jen (NerdifiedJen) added it · review of another edition

I have read this book so many times now. I didn't realize I had already listened to the audiobook once this year. Oh well! ...more

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Jun 14, 2021 Amy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, young-adult, romance, audible-deal, book-challenge-2021

Grrr.... after heavy books sometimes I just want to loose myself in a fluffy book for a read. This was going well for the first half - American girl studying abroad in Paris her senior year.... Then lost the plot for me. Got a bit bored and felt the behavior was pretty juvenile. But what was I expecting?! It’s about high schoolers. Which I didn’t realize when I picked it.

Made it through, and fairly decent time, this the 3 stars. I don’t really like to give 2 stars because I can see the value in ...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Amanda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 4-stars, recs-from-friends, spirituality

This was a brilliant and beautiful book, and I don't remember it entirely in order now. But I remember being surprised that I loved it as much as I did. I loved how much the main character changed, and that while it is set up as a falling-in-love, girl-boy story, the love story is more tangential to the main character finding her feet and herself, than it is about her finding the boy and the answers to the mystery of the boy.

I really, really, really do need to go read the others in this series. ...more

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