"Anna and the french kiss" by Stephanie Perkins.
This book is about a girl called Anna who is send to a Boarding School in Paris. She is from Atlanta and is not very happy about having to leave his American life behind. When the school year starts she meets a bunch of new friends but, overall, a handsome boy with a British accent and then, as expected, their love story develops.
I have to say that I didn't like this book, this is an essential information because all my review will consists on me explaining why. Don't get me wrong I didn't dislike the predictable fact about this book. I usually like teenagy love stories.
I dislike it mainly because I didn't get along with Anna. I tried through the whole novel to excuse her behavior because she was a teenager but then I realize that it would be unfair. Being a teenager doesn't have to mean to be immature and to think you are the center of everything. Anna is not empathetic and everything in her life is a drama. She thinks she can flirt with St. Clair, even if he has a girlfriend, but her friend Bridge doesn't have the right to date a boy she used to like. She is not a good friend: not for Bridge and not for Rashmi either.
I dislike it mainly because I didn't get along with Anna. I tried through the whole novel to excuse her behavior because she was a teenager but then I realize that it would be unfair. Being a teenager doesn't have to mean to be immature and to think you are the center of everything. Anna is not empathetic and everything in her life is a drama. She thinks she can flirt with St. Clair, even if he has a girlfriend, but her friend Bridge doesn't have the right to date a boy she used to like. She is not a good friend: not for Bridge and not for Rashmi either.
Besides, St. Clair does cheat on his girlfriend Ellie. I know that this character has good characteristics and that he is quite charismatic, but I couldn't forget the fact during almost the whole book that he didn't love his girlfriend and that he liked Anna and still he didn't broke up with Ellie and, for me, the fear or being alone doesn't justify it.
In addition, everything was soooo stereotypical. Every boy liked Anna and the rest of the girls have some kind of flaw: Mer was chubby, Rashmi was rude, Ellie was a stuck up university girl, etc.
These are my reasons for not liking "Anna and the french kiss" but you can comment me your reasons for liking, loving of disliking it. There is nothing I can enjoy more than a good debate.
Side note: This is just my opinion, it is not my intention to offend anyone or to say that this book doesn't deserve to be liked. I respect others' opinions, this is just my own.
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