Publication Date- December 2, 2010
Pages- 372
Awards- Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Goodreads Author, Young Adult Fiction (2010), The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky longlist (2011),Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee (2013)
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home. As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near - misses end with the French kiss Anna - and readers - have long awaited?
I was a skeptic at first. I decided to get this from my state's eBook program (I swear they're not paying me to talk about them, I've just gotten a lot of books from them lately) because I thought it would be a nice light read. It was, but I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did.
I hear almost everybody say this about this book, but I didn't have any expectations, despite everyone loving it. I thought they were just crazy people who loved cliche YA romance. This was cliche YA romance, but there was just something about it that made me love it! I'm not one for cheesy romance, but this was wonderful.
The characters were very real. And Etienne St. Clair was totally swoon-worthy (I imagined him as an Aaron Johnson type; think Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging Aaron Johnson). I really felt for the characters. I read this almost all in one night, and I'm pretty sure my parents could hear me yelling at the characters in the middle of the night.
Plot: cliche as heck. But it so worked. It was lovely. It was cheesy. But it was amazing. I don't know how to describe this very well, just read it. I swear it's better than it sounds and better than the cover looks!
My Rating:
I will be getting Lola and the Boy Next Door as soon as one of my library books expires, which should be Friday. (I can only have 4 at a time) That is, if nobody has checked it out by then. They'd better not!
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