“I cheated on her every day. In my mind, I thought of you in ways I shouldn’t have, again and again. She was nothing compared to you. I’ve never felt this way about anybody before—” What's the saying? Once a cheater, always a cheater? Oh, the fucking hypocrisy.There were many things I wanted to do to Anna Oliphant throughout this book. Some of them involve a bottle of choloroform, a shovel, and an unmarked grave. Mostly, I just want to bring Anna in front of the US Congress as an example of h

[minor unmarked spoilers ahead]what i signed up for: a cute, sweet contemporary what i got instead: a whole load of girl-on-girl hate and slut shaming, plus an insufferable, ridiculously ignorant protagonist (how on earth do you think that ‘oui’ is spelt ‘wee’?). oh, and did i mention cheating? case exhibit 1: on amanda: “a blonde with a beaky nose and a teeny tank top coos as soon as we get in line… she leans over her friend, a short girl with a severe ponytail, and positions herself for m...

I found this online...NOW WHY COULDN'T THIS BE THE ACTUAL COVER?St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. St. Clair. ST. CLAIR!!!!Can’t I just fill this review with his name instead of explaining how much I effing LOVED this book and trying to describe in vivid detail how beautiful and amazing and gorgeous and sexy and adorable and...

When I was four, I fell off a tree. I hit the ground face first. What I didn't know was that there was a very small, sharp root sticking out of the ground at the base of the tree. It went through my cheek. I went to the ER but had to wait until 2am because it was a busy night. I sat there for hours in that ER with a hole in my cheek. When the doctor finally saw me he thought that since it was a busy night and there were so many people in the ER that he would just sew up my cheek without having t...

This book is adorable, I’m not gonna lie. Wealthy white teenagers having first-world problems. Anna, the valiant, is plucked from Georgia and “abandoned” by her parents at a boarding school for rich American teens living in Paris, where she collapses into tears at the injustice of it all.Intrigued? That's only the beginning of this incredible tale.Sadly, my hopes for a dramatic twist of the Taken variety came to naught as the entire novel progressed without a single gun fight, kidnapping, or car...

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Is there nothing that this godforsaken year will not take from me?Is nothing sacred? No offense too far?I am suffering. In fact, I was already suffering. “Rereading my favorite book from when I was 15 for the sixth time” does not exactly scream ~mentally well~. And yet the universe must have decided I deserved more suffering for, like, my middle school Justin Bieber phase when I once responded to my enemy in eighth grade chemistry’s accusation that JBiebz was auto-tuned with a specific moment wh...

Update after reading this book for the THIRD time:Etienne. ETIENNE. The boy of my dreams (well...second place after Will Herondale, but still, that's a high honor). Stephanie Perkins is one of my favorite YA contemporary writers as she has this way of writing books (which really sound SO cheesy plot and title-wise) that leaves you in a puddle of happy tears and hormones after the last page. This book has an inexplicable quality that even after reading the book multiple times, I can fall in love

This is one of the cutest feel-good teen romances I have ever read. It has a bit of everything that you want... humour, a likeable protagonist and a completely swoon-worthy guy called Etienne St. Clair. You could fall in love with the name alone, even without the fact that he's sweet, kind, honest and nothing at all like any of the English boys I grew up with. It's a very cute book, a very nice book, neither is a bad thing but if I start mentioning words like 'cute' and 'nice' in a review you ca...

Cheating trope 🤢

So, Anna is forced to go to boarding school in Paris (I know! Poor bébé) and she crushes on a guy who already has a girlfriend. They flirt and obsess over each other while he is still dating the other girl. To add icing to Anna’s miserable cake, she is then forced to get mad at her friend who does something despicable: her friend dates a boy that Anna thought liked her instead. Life is just not fair. I gave this book one star because:1) Anna is a whiny hypocrite who has very different ideas abou...

Edited to Add a Disgruntled Reader's Reply at the Bottom. Apparently, I don't know how to write reviews.The best thing about this book? The end.I don't read chick-lit. In fact, I avoid it like the plague. But this book received rave reviews from every single person on my friendlist. So I thought, hey, why not? Maybe this won't be like the formulaic Mary Kate and Ashley movies my teachers made me watch in first grade. Maybe Anna will be smart and witty. And maybe Etienne will be awesome. I'm too

ahhh, paris. the city of lights. la ville d’amour. the perfect setting for any book, in my opinion, and this story only made me fall in love with the city all over again. <3and thats about the only positive experience that came from reading this. whomp whomp. i have seen an overwhelming amount of positive reviews for this and thought i was going to be in for a light-hearted and fluffy YA novel, but i was surprised at how problematic i found this to be. and normally that wouldnt bother me - i do

”I live here.” I point dumbly at my room while my mind whirrs: French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.”This quote! *lol* It about sums up at least 90% of all the teens who ever fell in love and were completely dumbstruck by the sudden appearance of their love interest. And I think this wasn’t just a nice scene but also relatable af. XDSo I apparently enjoyed the book, but unlike the majority of my friends I only gave “Anna and the French Kiss” three stars. I’m sure you can’t...

GOD! I’m giddy... I’m actually giddy after reading this book! Oh and I’m officially a Nook hugger. This book made me a chronic giddy Nook hugger. What a hot mess! But so what I ♥ it. Jolly good book indeed!Anna and the French Kiss is an absolute hit. It immediately takes top rank in my fave YA romance, chicky-type lit reads and there is absolutely no doubt I’ll be reading this book every year over and over again. The blokes and blokettes are loveable, the storyline is perfect, and the light roma...

My passion includes :- lowering the rating of books I once adored from 5 stars to 4 stars to 2 stars within a span of 11 months.🙄🧐

What I like about Stephanie Perkins is that her books are fluffy, and they're okay with that: there's no heavy message attached to this as the author attempts to shove an after-school special down our throats. I didn't like that when I was a teenager, and I don't like it now. Sometimes I feel like that's my real problem with contemporary novels - that they want desperately to be didactic in the way that dystopia or high fantasy is but their settings are too literal to pull it off properly. But S...

I’m going to be right up front and honest: I really, really, really did not like this book. Before I get into why I’m going to start off with the parts I did like. This won’t take long because there aren’t many. Perkins is definitely a talented writer as far as the technical stuff goes. Her prose flows nicely, Anna has a distinct voice (the only distinct voice in the novel, sadly), and not once did her writing feel strained or forced. She’s actually good, which is why my intense dislike of this...

This book was so bad. I mean, it was terrible.Lack of communication. checkCheating. checkMake the cheater look romantic (or try to). checkLOADS of unnecessary drama. checkJustification for cheating is no where near acceptable. checkWEIRD and obsessive lines like, Like an obsessed stalker, I tally the evenings he spends with me verses the evenings he spends with her, I'm winning. checkPersonalityless and underdeveloped characters that are only inserted into the story to create drama. checkRanty...

CW/TW: emotional cheating, slut-shaming, girl-hate, mentions of eating disorder as an insult, homophobia, bullying"The only French word I know is oui, which means yes, and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e."Paris, France (2010) — Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Anna Oliphant is enthused to return to school for the upcoming year as a senior, especially when her life is going exactly how she wants it to be: with a great job, a supportive best friend, and an almost boyfriend...