Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (Book Review)

Anna and the French Kiss
Author : Stephanie Perkins
Series : Anna and the French Kiss #1
Pub Date : December 2nd 2010
Publishers : Dutton
Genre : Romance, Contemporary
Pages : 372

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Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in paris-- until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all... including a serious girlfriend.
But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French Kiss?

Review

Before you start, i just wanted to warn you that i'm going to gush and fanboy right here. So if you don't like stuff like that, please leave right now. Trust me, you do not want to see me fanboy! Except if you don't mind it then please continue on!

I LOVED this book! It's like i'm falling in love with the book in a fictional Paris. Darn, why didn't i picked this up earlier? Everyone recommend this to me but i just shrug it off because the title is so feminine. But after reading Isla and the Happily Ever After's plot, i was intrigued and i finally decided to pick it up. And i'm really grateful i picked it up.

Oh god, i think i'm going to have a reading slump if i don't read Lola and the Boy Next Door soon. Oh god.

So if i have to describe this book in one word it would be : Phenomenal. Why? Because it's just is. It's super amazing and ugh. I love this book. This book will be in my favourite list, for sure. And i'm totally going to include this on my top 14 books of 2014!

I never really liked Contemporaries that much, though. But this book change it. I will look at Contemporaries differently now, liked after i finished this book, there's one book called "Better Off Friends" that i didn't really care but now i'm curious. I can see myself loving contemporaries in the near future.

Okay, now let's discuss. Get it together, it's not the time to gush! Okay, this book was epic and very, very realistic. It's probably what i loved more in this book, the realisticness of the story. When i was reading, i can relate to her, i can relate to Anna. It's about school and love and awkwardness, you're going to love it.

The characters are very charming, indeed. Anna already grab me when she said : "Here is everything i know about France : Madeline and Amélie and Moulin Rouge." Can't you just love her from the start? She's definitely my favourite character in the book. Anna can sometimes be annoying and frustrating, though... but in a good way.

Although i really loved some characters, there's some that i hate so, so much. Which is good! I don't really like books that only have favorable characters in it. But Stephanie Perkins played with the characters so we feel a burning sensation to some of them. Every characters has it on "buzz" so it's like different peoples collide in this story.

The romance in here was EPIC. OTP forever, surely. Oh god, epic fanboy what i just said. Anyway, the romance here was probably the one i will like most. It's not like your typical-couple but it's more graceful and awkward, it's like a rhythm that made you want to dance and i just loved them both. Those awkward moments together.. awww! If i could go into the book, i would hug them fiercely. When they laugh together, when they're happy, i almost fainted.

The characters cracks me up. Their dialogues and what they do, especially Anna. We hear her midn since it's Anna's POV and the way she talks to her mind. The way she handles capslock in her mind. You'll find very loveable quotes in here.

The message here is clearly seen. I learn something in this book. I thought about friendship, i thought about love, i thought about family and life. You just can't help feeling it stirring inside of you and, like, for a second you'll think of what will we do if we were Anna. Anna has an amazing journey.

There's some scenes where i just, I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT JUST HAPPENS. There's plot twist and sudden realisation that just made you feel so shocked about it. Even i did that, i gasped when i read the book because WHAT? and then when the scene it's over you're like "What just happened?"

I. Can't. Look. Away. From. The. Book. It's like there's a glue or something that keeping me reading this book. I read it around 2 or 3 days and in the final day, i read it around 7 or 8 am and i finished it in 2 pm and the best thing is that i didn't stop. I kept reading and reading and reading and boom it's over. It left me awed there because reality just sinks in for me.

As i said before, it's very realistic. So Anna is transferred into a new school and i don't know about you but i felt that before. I know what it felt like to be sweep up and left you in this bizarre world, alone. It's not a kind memory, but for this book, it's totally worth it. Very, very relatable. 

The only thing that i didn't liked is that I REALLY NEED A SEQUEL PLEASE. I know in Isla that we're going to meet some familiar faces but i just need it. Like the aftermath after what happens and i wanna know their next journey. I just really need it. Stephanie Perkins can made that, right? No? What do you mean, no?

But the ending. THE ENDING. THE ENDING. The ending is the highlight of the book. Its where the feels just like explode and circled you. You'll get a twinge of... something strange in your heart and you will enjoyed it. Oh goodness, the ending. The best show of the night. 

At the ending, you will smile like a maniac. At times, you will maybe cry. I'm not a book cry-er, but if i am, i would probably already cry by now. There's this scene where Anna and this and that and ugh. You will be satisfied, yes, satisfied. Maybe you'll get angry too and you probably feel pity to a character. 

And the ending is the most realistic of all scenes. Well.. maybe for some of us. Have you ever felt like something just, like, appears inside and you get this strange feeling. And you heart is thumping and it doesn't stop until it really is over? That's how i felt about it. I'm so lame at describing things so to feel it, you have to read the book yourself.

"Words cannot express how i feel towards this book."

FIVE out of FIVE stars. No excuses, no hesitation. In my number scale, i would give it a 98 points! I would probably give it 100 but it's like saying this book is flawless and it has its little flaws in it but i still did really, really enjoyed it. If i'm so going to reread this sooner, it's probably before i read Isla. Stephanie Perkins' writing style was very enjoyable and somewhat graceful and beautiful and i'm excited to read her next works. If you're still not convinced, i would hit you with a hammer.