Remember my "5-star book love" Anna and the French Kiss
? Well, Stephanie Perkins second book, Lola and the Boy Next Door
, just came out & can I just say I absolutely LOVED it!
? Well, Stephanie Perkins second book, Lola and the Boy Next Door, just came out & can I just say I absolutely LOVED it!
Again, she is an amazing author: her writing, the dialogue, her characters (the main character, Cricket, tops my literary "hot nice guy" list & I love how authentic the characters felt despite some of them being pretty eccentric),. All together it's just a FANTASTIC read.
My 5-star caveat: Everyone I know who read Anna and the French Kiss loved it. It was a book I was comfortable recommending to everyone & I think if you loved Anna you'll love this book too. However, these characters are NOTHING like Anna & St. Claire & in general the book felt more edgy.
Here's the first chapter from Penguins website: it's not quite as instantly gripping as Anna, but give it time: it's sweet, romantic, & loveable.
Has anyone else enjoyed this book? Did you love it?
My 5-star caveat: Everyone I know who read Anna and the French Kiss loved it. It was a book I was comfortable recommending to everyone & I think if you loved Anna you'll love this book too. However, these characters are NOTHING like Anna & St. Claire & in general the book felt more edgy.
Here's the first chapter from Penguins website: it's not quite as instantly gripping as Anna, but give it time: it's sweet, romantic, & loveable.
Has anyone else enjoyed this book? Did you love it?
5 comments:
Can't wait until I get done with this crazy busy week so I can read it! Woohoo!
I need to read both of these after I finish my Becca Fitzpatrick book... which I haven't started yet. Slacker!
I downloaded the sample on Ibooks! So good...such a different story and characters. Can't wait to read the whole thing!
I will have to download these to my kindle. I just finished a free book YA fantasy and it was so fun to read. I guess I need more fantasy in my life.
LOVED them both and I think actually I liked Lola more. What do you think? Mrs. Perkins is absolutely in my top 5 (ok possibly in my top 2) favorite authors list.
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