Stephanie Perkins

4.5 stars! Anna has been sent from Atlanta to Paris by her somewhat pretentious author father to attend school there her senior year. She is not happy about this at all - she doesn't want to leave her best friend and she also has an almost-blossoming-something going on with a guy at the movie theater where she works that she would rather stay home and explore. However, go to Paris she must. Once there, she makes friends with a cast of likable characters, including a good-looking, British-sounding young man named Etienne St. Clair. He happens to have a girlfriend we rarely see, as she finished school the year before and sort of dumped all her friends when she moved off-campus. St. Clair and his girlfriend seem to be on rocky ground. Anna and Toph (the boy back home) - well, aside from what goes on in her head and some back and forth email between them, we don't really know what they are and when Anna goes home for Christmas, she finds out that he has hooked up with her best friend while she was gone and was never really that into her. Anna and St. Clair seem to have a connection that neither one of them will act on. They just keep dancing around it as "just friends." While I could see where all this was going, I completely enjoyed the ride! Great characters, great ending, a little predictable, but that's okay - I really liked it. I loaned it out to one of my students already, and she liked it, too. It's a hit!… (mehr)

I wasn't going to read this last of the Stephanie Perkins books but it was on my library hold list already and when it was ready I couldn't resist.

Like the others it is a charming teen romance with quirky fun characters. She's really good at that. Just like with the Book about Isla I can't believe some of the completely inappropriate situations the kids are in: a 16 year old dating a 22 year old??? What?? (To be fair there's outrage from lots of characters but our heroine is all wrapped up with him. Spoiler alert: he is NOT the boy next door.)

Like the others this is an easy to read romance and perfect fluff for when you don't have a lot of brain power to spend on reading.

… (mehr)