3.5* 
 This was definitely a "cute" book. I was in the mood for a lovey dovey kind of book (which rarely happens) and this book definitely delivered. I loved that it was set in Paris, France: the city of love! The descriptions of the places, people, and things were pretty good and left me wanting to visit France at some point in my future if possible. I definitely wanted to be Anna a few times and live at a school like SOAP (School of America in Paris) and experience new things like she does and meet a cute boy like she does, and just overall have a great experience someplace far away from home where things are still relatively risk free. This book brought me back to the beginning of my first real relationship and how I wanted to spend every waking moment with that person and how wonderful everything was with that person. I remembered the first time I realized that I no longer had a crush on that person but that I actually loved them and that it was similar to what Anna had experienced. These were a few things that I think Stephanie Perkins captured wonderfully! 
 While I definitely felt invested in the characters, I felt they could have been fleshed out more. Obviously Anna and Etienne's characters were pretty dynamic, but I felt like several characters could have been more dynamically written about but were left pretty static (perhaps because they didn't want a YA book to be over 400 pages). Anna's other close friends (Meridith, Rashmi, and Josh) could have been fleshed out more with further information about not only their lives, but also their characteristics. I wanted to hear more about Rashmi (she was interesting to me), but we only seem to see her when she is making out with Josh. Meredith was slightly more dynamic, but I felt like Stephanie Perkins chose two major characteristics and then dwelt upon them for the entire book (the fact that she liked soccer and is athletic, and she likes St. Clair). 
 While I was looking for a cute love story, there were certain things about Anna's and Etienne's realtionship (perhaps more-so about Anna) that I couldn't get over. I completely understood the difficulties that Etienne was facing and didn't hate him or anything for choices that he made, however, there was too much teenage angst in this book. I cannot stand teenage angst in books. Anna seemed like a cry baby to me. At one point in the book, she cried three times in one day. Unless she is on her period, in my world, there is no reason that she needed to cry this many times. The ease of her tears drove me nuts and had me just about literally rolling my eyes. I perfer a strong woman who even though she loves someone, can still get things done on her own and doesn't depend upon a man to make her happy. This book stepped over that line for me and for that main reason, I felt like I had to dock it a full star. 
 I thought this book was definitely cute and would highly suggest to high school readers, but maybe I was getting a little ahead of myself by stepping back into the YA genre when looking for a romance novel.