Etienne St. Clair & Anna Oliphant: Day 7: Kiss Day

Shipname: Annatienne (Maybe?)

Day 7: A ship that makes your heart melt

Anna and Etienne. It's like no matter how much I get, it's not enough.

I just reread the book and I have to say, I fell deeper in lover with it. 

Etienne is definitely the most charming person in this world. He is such a sweetheart!

My favorite thing about him: French Name, English Accent and American School (You'll understand what I mean if you read the book).

This time round I cherished their friendship so much more. I knew how it would go so it was easier not to will them to get over it.

I loved how playful they were with each other, their constant teasing, their fun interactions. Their first meeting was so adorable and from there on it was just... it's something I want.

A friend like that is exactly what everyone needs. I might have been able to bare it if they remained just friends. I'm glad they didn't but I wouldn't have been utterly horrified.

When I read this book the second time around I find myself cherishing those little playful moments they had instead of their romance. I do love their love, though.

I'd find myself smiling at things Etienne would say all the time.

I love how after Bridgit and Toph hurt Anna, Etienne was such a great friend to her.

And when Etienne and Anna weren't on such great terms and he saw Anna cry about Bridget, he was like Do we still hate her? I love that. It's just such a BFF thing to do!

And then the dialogue If you can't tell your best mate then who can you tell?

Any line delivered by Etienne was amazing.

I did think they were both idiots for not coming clean about their feelings earlier.

Also, I thought they were the perfect pick for this prompt because of what Anna says (thinks) after her and Etienne kiss for the first time. She said she finally understood what people meant when they said kissing felt like melting.

I love their point zero wishes, they both wished for each other!

In Lola and the boy next door, any scene with Anna and Etienne was my favorite.

And in Isla and the Happily Ever After, the scene at point zero! That was the best!

These two are just the perfect pair. They're cute, playful, charming, adorable, heartwarming, perfect!

Isla and the Happily Ever After

I love Isla and the Happily Ever After so much. I loved that we saw Isla and Josh's interact together for the first half of the book. In the other books, the main characters do not get together until the very end so it was a great change. Now on to the spoilers.

"'The best part.' And he pulls me back into his arms. 'The happily ever after.'" ~ ISLA

Isla and the Happily Ever After is such a cute story about a girl, Isla, who gets the guys she has pined after since their first year at SOAP.

It was kismet, how they ran into each other at the cafe Kismet.

Due to Isla's slightly sedated stage, she was more open towards Josh due to her visit to the destiny.

It was nice to see Josh again and to be back at SOAP.

I loved Kurt's character and I initially thought that he would be the jealous best friend who falls in love with her but thankfully that didn't happen.

I was ecstatic when they went back to France and they were finally together. Unlike the other books, they were together in the beginning.

Their relationship was so cute. Josh was definitely a better person when he was with her. I loved seeing his artistic side. He was definitely a great artist, yes I know I haven't seen any of it but I have read Isla's views on it.

I loved the scene in Barcelona. I loved reading about their time in Barcelona up until the point when she got the phone call. That broke my heart. It was horrifying when Josh got kicked out of SOAP separating him and Isla.

It was a heart-wrenching experience reading about their time apart. How he couldn't contact her. How she couldn't go to him. How they couldn't be together.

And when they were finally going to see each other again he had to go to the White House. I know it's an honor but come on!!!

And when he sends her the comic! Why would he give her a picture like that of Rashmi? I know he wanted her to know everything.

But then when she broke up with him because she was afraid that he didn't truly love her and would get tired of her. But come on, he was definitely truly in love with her.

And the chapters after that were painfully hard to read. It was nice to see Isla and Hatty make up.

I just wish her and Kurt were still as close as they used to be, but they definitely drifted off.

The part where she met up with Josh, Anna, Etienne, Lola, Cricket, and Meredith was amazing.

Oh! And the scene where Etienne proposed to Anna was beautiful. The fact he did that at Point Zero was amazing.

And finally, the part where he gave her the completed comic.

And even though the book was amazing, awesome, perfect, and so much more I do wish there were more chapters.

Reviews for rest of the series:

Anna and the French Kiss

Lola and the Boy Next Door

Isla and the Happily Ever After

Lola and the Boy Next Door

"And I hold my head high towards my big entrance, hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars." ~ LOLA

Lola and the Boy Next Door revolves around a budding fashion designer and her dilemma about two boys, Cricket and Max. Lola is an expressive character with her outfits and her strong personality. 

Her life was perfect until the Bell twins, Cricket and Calliope returned to their home right next to them after moving again because of Calliope's career.

I love Lola's relationship with her fathers, Andy and Nathan, though I loved Andy more. I loved Lola's relationship with her best friend, Leslie. She unlike Bridgit was a much better friend. 

I love her costumes and Cricket's inventions.

Cricket was such a gentleman, he was one of the nicest characters I've ever read about. He understood Lola. He understood why she wore costumes, he didn't think she was being fake. He understood her need to have costumes.

At first, I felt bad for Max when Lola started to kind of stray off, I don't hate her for it because she didn't actually cheat on him until... well, until that day in her room but he left right after that. 

I hated Calliope all through the book, even in the end. 

She was only nice to Lola when she needed Lola's help. She was the reason Lola thought Cricket didn't invite her to his party. She was the reason he though Lola didn't want to attend the party.

Max was initially not that bad, even though I didn't like him, he was a little controlling but still. But in the end, I loathed him. How could he do that to her? Yes, she broke up with him and told him she kissed Cricket but he hurt her more. He brought up her age, she was sensitive about it. 

He didn't like her when she wasn't in costume because she looked younger. The things he said about her age and costumes was absolutely awful.

I love that Cricket took her to the dance, dressed up as Marie Antoinette. The fact that he did her hair was great. He was such a help in her frantic worry.

I found it astonishing that they were able to make the dress together. That dress was so complicated. But the fact that he helped her was amazing. I also liked that he made his feelings perfectly clear. That he told her how he felt and how he was such a great friend in spite of her feelings.

My favorite parts were the scenes with Anna and Etienne. I love that they finally have a relationship, a beautiful relationship. I love their playful banter, I love how he got a job at the theater to be closer to her.

I love Anna and Lola's friendship. And Lola's friendship with Etienne and his with Cricket. They were such a great group. I love that all of them later are a part of Isla's story. I loved that Lola and Cricket were in the next book and even though it wasn't as much as Anna-Etienne in this book but it was nice to see them again.

Reviews for rest of the series:

Anna and the French Kiss

Lola and the Boy Next Door

Isla and the Happily Ever After

Anna and the French Kiss

Anna, Lola, and Isla is an amazing series. Even though it isn't an actual series, it fits together very well.

I love Anna and the French Kiss best. It is a beautiful story. The three stories are interconnected. The main characters from the first book are in the second, even though they didn't play a major role. It was nice seeing Anna & Etienne together.

"Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home." ~ANNA

Anna and the French Kiss is about a girl who moves to Paris in her senior year. She feels horrified about having to leave her best friend, Bridgit, her crush, Toph and an amazing job.

She attends School of America in Paris, SOAP where she meets Meredith and her group of friends, including an American Boy with a French Name and an English Accent. We follow Anna through her life at SOAP.

Her and Etienne's interactions were amazing. Even as friends they seemed more like a couple that him and Ellie. I hated Ellie. She was awful. Etienne was more in love with Anna. He should have had a spine and told her when he wasn't drunk.

Anna did the right thing not holding him onto his drunken words but if she had told him, they could have been together sooner.

Ellie and Etienne were simply together because they were comfortable with each other and frankly I don't think that's enough. I love that he faced his fear of height of heights to see Anna and that they both wished for each other.

It was the best scene in the book. I love the ending. I love when they finally got together though I wish there were more chapters, I wanted a little bit of Anna and Etienne, a lot more than one chapter.

I wish Ellie was out of the picture earlier and the two of them got their heads together sooner. I loved Josh's character. I was found it harder to believe Meredith forgave Anna so easily. I didn't like Rashmi's character much but she was decent in the end. Also, I loved the whole France theme and Anna's love for movies.

And Bridgit pissed me off. How could she do that to Anna? I got why she forgave Bridgit, I mean she did the same to Mer but still. And the Toph character was a jerk.

I love that Anna and Etienne's story continued in Lola and the Boy Next door. Yes, the role isn't big but it gives us an idea as to what happens to them.

This series is perfect and I love every second of it but, I do wish we got to see more of each couple. It would have been great to have a book with all six characters focusing on each of them with multiple points of views.

This series was the first contemporary novel I loved. I did like Fangirl but this was better.
My favorite in the series is Anna and the French Kiss.

Reviews for rest of the series:

Anna and the French Kiss

Lola and the Boy Next Door

Isla and the Happily Ever After