Name: Anna and the French Kiss Collector's Edition
ISBN: 9780593111260

Stephanie Perkins

A one-of-a-kind edition of the beloved romance classic, featuring a custom patterned edge and new bonus content. New York Times Holiday Gift Guide selection! ♥ New cover art accented with gold foil ♥ A custom, patterned-edge design of Point Zéro ♥ Ribbon marker ♥ Patterned endpapers ♥ BONUS CONTENT: A map of Anna and Étienne's Paris annotated by the author "Stephanie Perkins's characters fall in love the way we all want to, in real time and for good." -Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna can't wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she's less than thrilled when her father unexpectedly ships her off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair, the perfect boy. The only problem? He's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her crush back home. Will a year of romantic near-misses end in the French kiss Anna awaits?

Anna and the French Kiss Collector's Edition

I’m a sucker for a cute romance. And in Paris! What could be better? I read this in one sitting and it was wonderful! 

Brittnee Coffmen

definitely cute! i’m still debating whether or not all the drama was too much for me/if the resolution was too abrupt but i did really like the complexity of anna and étienne’s story? it definitely wasn’t easy, it was ripe with misunderstandings and miscommunication, and it took a while for them to get there. hoping mer gets her hot roman mans soon 🫢

🌙

my very first ya novel as a teen. it's full of cute moments! however, upon rereading I do now notice the problematic moments between characters, particularly the way anna is 100% a not like other girls stereotype. but at the end of the day, idgaf, still a great read :)) super kilig

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Kaley Catron

This is one that will never get old. It will forever hold a special place in my heart. And I really want to visit Paris and find my Ètienne.

Stephanie Vischer

Phew, this took me waaayyy longer to finish than I anticipated. I was surprised I didn’t fly through it because the style of writing was easy to understand but I guess I just never really bought into the story itself.
Such a shame because the cover is sooo beautiful! 😋

I didn’t connect with the main character, Anna, which is always a bad sign for me. I didn’t care for her problems and story, and I also didn’t like her throughout most of the book. She was so self-centered it was a relieve when a page didn’t describe how everything was supposed to be about her. And the over the top drama just isn’t my thing.

Why would you keep on belittling your crush’s current girlfriend when she’s done nothing but be that – the girlfriend? It makes Anna look so bitchy whenever we read what she thinks of her and what she’d like to do to her. 
As if she had some sort of claim on her crush. I might have been able to relate to that when I was in my early teenage years but now it seems so silly and overly dramatic.

At some points she seemed lovely and concerned, though that just didn’t really add up in my opinion.
For example, she’s described as 'rule-loving' and 'rule-abiding', yet she’s acting the complete opposite in quite a few instances (mostly when a boy is involved).

Next, I didn’t like her double standards. She LOVED Étienne’s messy bedhead but woe betide the unlucky people she didn’t fancy who would go out in similar hairstyles. Quote: 'Couldn’t these people have at least brushed their hair before leaving their houses?'

And the most irritating thing is that she lacks self-reflexion quite badly, and that this is used to drive ALL the drama in the book.
I can see why people might like it (as I said I might have liked it too in my teenage years) but it’s just way too much drama for my taste.

Unfortunately, I didn’t like the author’s style of writing too much either which is why I struggled with keeping on reading.
I can see that Stephanie Perkins tried using some metaphors but they just didn’t land with me. They felt too 'explained' and spelled out which I don’t like because I as a reader like to catch on to those things and figure out why it’s there. What its relation to the story might be.

Maybe, I’m a bit too hard on this book but I just really didn’t enjoy it.