Anna and the French Kiss By Stephanie Perkins

We all have those books that we read that we can hardly put down, the ones that consume our thoughts when we aren't reading them and stay with us long after we have finished them. The ones that ruin all other books for us because, they will never be as good as the one we just put down. This book? This book was that book for me.

Anna's father decides he's going to send her to an international boarding school in Paris. It's her senior year and she wants nothing more than to stay at her high school with her best friend and her crush that works at the local movie theater. Which means stays in Atlanta and not moving to Paris. Her father, who is a famous author, won't take no for an answer and her parents fly out with her to the School of America in Paris. Then they left her. They just left, it's rather sad actually. Her neighbor Meredith from the next room in the dorm welcomes her warmly and they click nicely though Anna still feels lonely without her friends. On the way back to her room she meets St. Clair., little does she know but everything will change for her because of him. She grows closer to her new group of friends but naturally, to St. Clair more than anyone. It doesn't take her very long to develop a crush on him, even though she still claims to like Toph, the guy from her hometown. When she finally gets to go home for Christmas break, she had to stay in Paris for thanksgiving and that's when she got super close to him, Anna finds out that her best friend is dating her crush. She's brokenhearted and leans more on St. Clair. She figures out she loves him when she comes back from the break and sees him. But, lots of other drama keeps them from getting together, like St Clair has a girlfriend he won't dump and Meredith is in love with him as well.  It's such a fun and cute book. It has it's moments where you just want to scream and tell them to get together already. I read this book in very little time, finding I simply couldn't put it down.  I loved this book so much I already ordered the second one and can't wait till it gets here. I love how these characters, the way they talk, isn't all clean and fake like some authors do. They are real teenagers, there is cursing and they talk about sex. It's refreshing to see as real teenagers act this way. It's a great book and it was so nice to see glimpses of Paris as I've always wanted to visit.