Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

Summary: "Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door, Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on cricket."

The sweetest surprise of this book is the reappearance of 2 favorite characters from Anna and the French Kiss! I love that Stephanie Perkins is connecting her lovely characters in a cute, easy fashion. It's nice to have familiar faces in an unfamiliar setting. This book moves even faster than Anna, but it's even more heartwarming in its tale of the triumph of first loves. It's so sweet and fluffy, it might give you a tooth-ache. 

338 pages

Anna & the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Anna is an aspiring film critic and normal teenage girl who is forcibly relocated by her novelist father to spend her senior year of high school at an American boarding school in Paris, France. Anna is reluctant to leave her family, friends and crush behind, but she soon adjusts to her new life in Paris. She struggles to learn French and navigate a new city, but she luckily finds a welcoming group of friends, including the charming Etienne St. Clair.

Anna and the French Kiss is 100% fluffy and feel-good. It moved quickly and kept me entertained, enough that I requested Perkins' next book: Lola & the Boy Next Door (which I'll put on here as soon as I finish it!). 

372 pages