By Stephanie Perkins (372 pages)
Published by Dutton
Bookish rating: 3.25
I was due to read a young adult (YA) book. It's a genre I adore, without apology. And it had been some time.
Anna and the French Kiss is a light, breezy, adequately witty, OMG-does-he-like-me? YA novel. It's fun. It's adorable, even, in a blessedly non-obnoxious way.
The premise: Georgia-dwelling Anna gets shipped off to boarding school by her wealthy douche canoe of a father who writes crappy soap opera-y mass market novels (a detail I loved). While there, Anna falls for the accent-endowed Brit, Etienne. But alas, Etienne has a girlfriend. And that's the dilemma for the next 300+ pages.
'Tis not a perfect novel. It meanders in the middle and definitely could be shorter. The plotting is a little loosey goosey and, um, lacking, but the setting of Paris is fun, especially when our heroine, Anna, does not speak French. But there was something sweet and refreshing about Anna and her teen love drama.
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