She immediately clicks with his group of friends, including Meredith, Rashmi, and Josh (who goes on to become the lead in Isla and the Happily Ever After!).Īnna and Étienne instantly get along, and become the best of friends despite some mutual attraction. Clair, who is an American-born, English-raised French boy– who’s already been going steady with an college girl for a year. I mean, how common is it for the resident hot guy to be shorter than all of the girls swooning after him?Īnna Oliphant, the protagonist, is an American sent to spend her senior year of high school as a boarding school in Paris. Sure, they might all sound rather cliché at first, but Perkins has no problem deviating from the norm of teenage romance in a way that’s both subtle and lovable. But don’t think that they’re devastating, somber romances (à la Nicholas Sparks), because they are instead overwhelmingly charming in their humor and quirky couples. These books launched Perkins’ career as a master of the easily believable, effortless YA romance. Anna and the French Kiss is a Young Adult (YA) romance that was published in 2010. It is author Stephanie Perkins’ debut novel in a companion-style trilogy, and books two and three, Lola and the Boy Next Door and Isla and the Happily Ever After (my personal favorite of the three!), quickly followed and feature overlapping characters in the same heart-filled universe.
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