*3.5


While this book will probably go on a list of Most Problematic Books of All Time I still found myself enjoying this book. When I tell you this book is a dumpster fire, I’m being 100% honest. This book is terrible. The writing is god right awful, the characters are all shallow and stacked up with cliches, making them have less personality than a fish, the girl on girl hate is insufferable, and Anna is a very very stupid bitch, I was enjoying myself.


I laughed at the sarcastic, and dry wit Between all of the characters, and I found myself liking Étienne against my better judgment (even though the dude can’t decide if he’s British, American, or French. He’s got a British accent, but he’s being raised in America, and France. At this point I’m convinced he’s Scottish). Étienne’s character is just basically every male love interest trope from the late 2000s, and early 2010s, but for some reason his British accent wooed me. (Even though the guy cheated on his girlfriend. More than once).


The writing in this book is so juvenile that is was blatantly hard to read, but I was still laughing at it the entire time. The girl on girl hate is absolutely hilarious in this book. Anna our main character can’t be friends with any girl without one of them calling her a slut, or them fighting over the Beautiful Étienne or for Anna to be a narcissistic bitch.


Speaking of Anna, she was most definitely a narcissistic bitch, but she also falls into the category of DUMB BITCH. She’s really, really dumb. And whiny. In the beginning of the book she’s angry her father is sending her to a boarding school IN PARIS because she’s going to miss the boy she’s crushing on. I was actually speechless. Then she’s lusting over Étienne St. Claire the whole book even though he, has a girlfriend (he’s lusting over her too, so). And then she claims that she wants to be a film critic from how much she just lurvssss movies, yet she doesn’t know France is the country where movies are one of the biggest things. Even St. Claire was shocked at this news, who wouldn’t be. She also decides to let herself starve for a whole week because she’s embarrassed to butcher French to the lunch ladies, and she doesn’t know how to point to pictures apparently or talk in English.


All the side characters were mediocre at best, and served no other purpose than to cause drama, and put rifts between Anna and Étienne. They didn’t do anything exciting, and weren’t very close to Anna even though they did everything together. Yeah their is that trope in here too.


And what better why for our love interest to confess his love to Anna with a direct quote her,


”I cheated on her everyday. 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”


Because that’s just so romantic.


But even though all these things are true, and this book is terrible, I still enjoyed it. It was fun to laugh at, and I definitely didn’t take this book, or myself for that matter to seriously while reading this book.