Anna and the French Kiss is only one book, which is unfortunate because I really enjoyed it a lot. I was not able to put it down, and I finished it in two days I liked it so much. I wish that this was a series, because it was one of the best books I’ve read this year.
The plot takes place in Paris, where Anna from Atlanta goes for her senior year of high school. Throughout the novel, there is conflict because she likes St. Clair, who becomes one of her closest friends, but since he has a girlfriend through most of the novel, she is discouraged to tell him how she really feels. But through the course of the novel there is change in their relationship to one another until they finally realize how much they like each other.
This is one of the best examples of “does he like me or not,” because as Anna falls for him, the reader is desperate to know how St. Clair really feels about her. When it becomes apparent that he does like her, you kind of have a new desire as the reader, which is for him to finally confess to Anna. Even though there are signs throughout the novel, Anna is too scared to tell him, because he is stuck trying to break out of his old relationship, yet they have history together.
As it is in the City of Lights, the setting really adds to the novel as well. With a sense of beauty and admiration, it is only fitting for such a romantic novel. The sense of the old architecture but the newness of it to Anna also really strikes across the point that Anna doesn’t really know how to behave around St. Clair.
Honestly, anyone who likes a romantic-comedy sort of novel would LOVE this book. I can’t say enough how amazing this novel is. On a side note: in this genre there is a lot of repetition of the plots of a secret admirer or suddenly having the jock kiss the geek, but this novel is something I’ve never seen before. The best part about it is that it is relatable and exciting, yet not something that scares the mind, such as dystopian. I never got bored while reading it.