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* AdjustingYourGlasses: Rashmi does this after Amanda makes a mean comment about them, showing that it got to her at least a little.
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* OutnumberedSibling: Nikhil Devi is the only brother to older sisters Leela and Rashmi and younger sister Sanjita.
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* SkunkStripe: Anna has a bleached stripe in her dark hair. It earns her the EmbarrassingNickname "Skunk Girl", courtesy of Amanda.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted; Sean was happy to have Bridgette as a babysitter but he gets mad at her for [[spoiler:hurting his older sister's feelings since she's been crying every day]]. Anna is touched that this means he doesn't like Bridgette more than her but tells him he has to behave for his babysitter for their mother's sake.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Sean, who has been gushing about Bridgette, says that he doesn't like her anymore, Anna takes concern. [[spoiler:It's because he found out that Bridgette made Anna cry and no one hurts his big sister]].
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** Averted when [[spoiler:Bridgette gets together with Anna's crush Toph, since Anna and Toph had never actually gone out or become a couple. Anna is still obviously mad because an entirely different line was crossed]].
** St. Clair admits he feels like he was emotionally cheating on Ellie for the whole year he spent with Anna, and is blasted for it.
** Averted when [[spoiler:Bridgette gets together with Anna's crush Toph, since Anna and Toph had never actually gone out or become a couple. Anna is still obviously mad because an entirely different line was crossed]].
** St. Clair admits he feels like he was emotionally cheating on Ellie for the whole year he spent with Anna, and is blasted for it.
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** A user handle on Anna's website is [[Literature/AClockworkOrange ''clockworkorange88'']].
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** A user handle on Anna's website is [[Literature/AClockworkOrange ''clockworkorange88'']].
''[[Literature/AClockworkOrange clockworkorange88]]''.
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** Toph calls Anna
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** Anna invites her friends to see Film/ItHappenedOneNight at the cinema. She later watches Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington and Film/TexasChainSawMassacre1974.
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* AbusiveParents: St. Clair's father is emotionally abusive, to the point that he wants to keep St. Clair isolated from his sick mother.
* AlphaBitch: Amanda is one at soap, complete with snark, hair flips and a GirlPosse.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted with Josh and Rashmi in the first novel. They argue constantly despite caring about each other, and Anna notes that their relationship is unhealthy. They break up in the end.
* AlphaBitch: Amanda is one at soap, complete with snark, hair flips and a GirlPosse.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted with Josh and Rashmi in the first novel. They argue constantly despite caring about each other, and Anna notes that their relationship is unhealthy. They break up in the end.
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* AlphaBitch: Amanda is one at soap, complete with snark, hair flips and
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted with Josh and Rashmi in the first novel. They argue constantly despite caring about each other, and Anna notes that their relationship is unhealthy. They break up in the end.
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* ButNotTooForeign: St. Clair is British and French, but also American.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cricket and Lola, where Lola claims she's loved him since she's known him.
* CoolOldGuy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, who Isla notes he seems to tell absolutely everything to.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* EtTuBrute: Anna is devastated and upset when she finds out that [[spoiler:Bridgette and her crush Toph have become a couple. She calls out Bridgette for dating her crush, and for not telling her]].
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cricket and Lola, where Lola claims she's loved him since she's known him.
* CoolOldGuy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, who Isla notes he seems to tell absolutely everything to.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* EtTuBrute: Anna is devastated and upset when she finds out that [[spoiler:Bridgette and her crush Toph have become a couple. She calls out Bridgette for dating her crush, and for not telling her]].
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.
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* ButNotTooForeign: TheBroCode: Anna tells herself that even if St. Clair is British and French, but also American.were single, Meredith has dibs because she's liked him for a longer time.
*ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cricket CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The book titles all follow this formula.
* FunWithAcronyms: The School of America in Paris is commonly referred to as SOAP.
* GayParee: The main setting of books 1 andLola, where Lola claims she's loved him since she's known him.
* CoolOldGuy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, who Isla notes he seems to tell absolutely everything to.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* EtTuBrute: Anna is devastated and upset when she finds out that [[spoiler:Bridgette and her crush Toph have become a couple. She calls out Bridgette for dating her crush, and for not telling her]].
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.3.
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* FunWithAcronyms: The School of America in Paris is commonly referred to as SOAP.
* GayParee: The main setting of books 1 and
* CoolOldGuy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, who Isla notes he seems to tell absolutely everything to.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* EtTuBrute: Anna is devastated and upset when she finds out that [[spoiler:Bridgette and her crush Toph have become a couple. She calls out Bridgette for dating her crush, and for not telling her]].
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.
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* IAmVeryBritish: St. Clair's accent is swooned over by Anna over the course of the novel, and he uses stereotypically British phrases liberally.
* InLoveWithLove: Isla decides Josh must be more interested in the idea of a relationship than the one he has with her, so she breaks up with him.
* IntimateArtistry: Josh draws Isla for his book... and she also finds intimate drawings of his ex, Rashmi.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: Anna and St. Clair claim this throughout the first novel, even sleeping in one bed and claiming to be friends.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Isla getting into Dartmouth is a given.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lola observes that Anna and St. Clair are like this by the second novel, bickering insistently in a loving way.
* NewTransferStudent: Anna's novel starts with her beginning at SOAP this way.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: During their fight [[spoiler:after Toph loudly reveals that he started dating Bridgette during a concert, Bridgette yells at Anna for leaving her in "Shitlanta". Anna yells back that Bridgette turned her brother against her, and runs off the stage in tears after damaging several instruments. It's so bad that when Bridgette attempts to apologize to Anna for what she said and for the whole awkward situation that Anna doesn't respond to her for months]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Anna's dad just sends her off to SOAP without even considering how she may fell about it, because he's absentminded due to being a writer. Her mother meanwhile is constantly exhausted and stressed from being a single parent.
* RejectedApology: Anna for a long time refuses to hear Bridgette's constant apologies for [[spoiler:how she handled the hole hooking up with Anna's crush, not telling Anna, and then blaming her for leaving Atlanta when obviously it wasn't Anna's choice to go to Paris. Anna finally responds to her after she ends up in a similar situation with St. Clair, who has a girlfriend]].
* TheReveal: St. Clair didn't reconcile with Ellie after he kissed Anna... he broke up with her.
* InLoveWithLove: Isla decides Josh must be more interested in the idea of a relationship than the one he has with her, so she breaks up with him.
* IntimateArtistry: Josh draws Isla for his book... and she also finds intimate drawings of his ex, Rashmi.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: Anna and St. Clair claim this throughout the first novel, even sleeping in one bed and claiming to be friends.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Isla getting into Dartmouth is a given.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lola observes that Anna and St. Clair are like this by the second novel, bickering insistently in a loving way.
* NewTransferStudent: Anna's novel starts with her beginning at SOAP this way.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: During their fight [[spoiler:after Toph loudly reveals that he started dating Bridgette during a concert, Bridgette yells at Anna for leaving her in "Shitlanta". Anna yells back that Bridgette turned her brother against her, and runs off the stage in tears after damaging several instruments. It's so bad that when Bridgette attempts to apologize to Anna for what she said and for the whole awkward situation that Anna doesn't respond to her for months]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Anna's dad just sends her off to SOAP without even considering how she may fell about it, because he's absentminded due to being a writer. Her mother meanwhile is constantly exhausted and stressed from being a single parent.
* RejectedApology: Anna for a long time refuses to hear Bridgette's constant apologies for [[spoiler:how she handled the hole hooking up with Anna's crush, not telling Anna, and then blaming her for leaving Atlanta when obviously it wasn't Anna's choice to go to Paris. Anna finally responds to her after she ends up in a similar situation with St. Clair, who has a girlfriend]].
* TheReveal: St. Clair didn't reconcile with Ellie after he kissed Anna... he broke up with her.
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* AbusiveParents: St. Clair's father is emotionally abusive, to the point that he wants to keep St. Clair isolated from his sick mother.
* AccentSlipUp: Anna slips into a southern accent when talking to her mother because she has one, but her southern origin isn't otherwise discernible from her speech.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** Amanda's posse is described as a "Posse of Pretty Preppy People".
** Anna's website is called ''Femme Film Freak''.
** Anna describes the cathedral of Notre Dame as "Massive. Monstrous. Majestic."
* AdjustingYourGlasses: Rashmi does this after Amanda makes a mean comment about them, showing that it got to her at least a little.
* AlphaBitch: Amanda is one at SOAP, complete with snark, hair flips and a GirlPosse.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Anna and Bridgette look like sisters, except Bridge is "prettier and smarter and more talented."
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Anna's father is a novelist who writes cheesy, ClicheStorm books with generic titles and a large audience of middle-aged women. Anna is deeply embarrassed by that, and St. Clair and Rashmi's reactions to her description of one of his novels is a clear indicator why.
* AudienceSurrogate: Anna is this with regards to SOAP and Paris in general.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted with Josh and Rashmi in the first novel. They argue constantly despite caring about each other, and Anna notes that their relationship is unhealthy. They break up in the end.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: According to Anna, her brother Sean, who is ten years younger than her, was either a mistake or a last-ditch effort to save her parents' failing marriage. If it was the latter, it didn't work very well.
* BirthdayHater: St. Clair doesn't celebrate his birthday and treats it as [[ButForMeItWasTuesday any other day]]. He has [[DeadpanSnarker no objection to Fridays]], though.
* BoldInflation: Amanda tends to emphasise a random word in every sentence she speaks.
* BollywoodNerd: Rashmi is of Indian descent and a straight- A student with a fascination for Egyptology.
* ButNotTooForeign: St. Clair is British and French, but also American.
* TheClan: Anna is part of one on her Scottish maternal grandfather's side. They have a tartan and a motto that, much to Anna's embarrassment, turns out to be in French, which she never knew before St. Clair points it out to her.
* CrashIntoHello/ MeetCute: Anna meets St. Clair during her first night at SOAP by bumping into him at the door of Meredith's room.
* DeadpanSnarker: Anna has tendencies towards this, especially in her narration.
* DinnerOrderFlub: On her first day at SOAP, Anna is hesitant to order food in the cafeteria for fear of ending up with this trope as she doesn't speak French, which the menu is written in. Luckily, she finds out the staff speaks English.
* DoesNotDrive: Despite being old enough to drive, St. Clair says the transit systems in the three cities he divides his time between, Paris, London, and San Francisco, are perfectly sufficient for him.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Isla appears as a junior in a brief scene. In her senior year, she gets the spotlight in her own book.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Rash for Rashmi. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Anna's narration.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: St. Clair is one of the most desired guys at SOAP and has homoerotic subtext with his best friend Josh.
* EtTuBrute: Anna is devastated and upset when she finds out that [[spoiler:Bridgette and her crush Toph have become a couple. She calls out Bridgette for dating her crush, and for not telling her]].
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.
* FishOutOfWater: Anna feels like this when she ends up in a boarding school in France with people who've known each other for years and she doesn't know anyone or speak a word of French. She gets better soon.
* FlippingTheBird: Anna does this to St. Clair once, and he responds with the British "V" version.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** St. Clair introduces himself to Anna as Étienne. Only his girlfriend calls him by his first name. It was hinted at that they would get together from the time they first met.
** St. Clair tells Anna the superstition that whoever stands on the Point Zero star, will come back to Paris someday. Fast-forward to the epilogue of the third book a year later, the two of them are in the exact same spot again and [[spoiler: St. Clair proposes to Anna]].
* FunWithHomophones: Anna's nickname for Bridgette (Saunderwick) is Bridge Sandwich, and Bridgette's for Anna (Oliphant) is Banana Elephant. It's even made into a VisualPun by the figurines of those objects that the two give each other as gifts.
* FunetikAksent: The school cafeteria chef, Mr. Boutin, speaks English like this.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Anna is anxious about appearing obviously American to Parisians, so St. Clair fixes that... by giving her a Canadian flag to put on her backpack.
** Several actual examples of tourists with ridiculous clothing walk by as she discusses this worry of hers with St. Clair.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and St. Clair are this in spades, often bordering on HoYay.
* TheHilarityOfHats: St. Clair has a hat that his friends find ugly and funny, but he loves it because [[MommasBoy his mother made it for him]].
* HoYay: St. Clair and Josh's friendship has a lot of subtext, usually in the form of jokes delivered by one of the two.
--> '''Josh:''' I'm asking him to prom. This is our year, I just know it.
--> ''[...]''
--> '''St. Clair:''' No kiss? I'm crushed, mate?
--> '''Josh:''' Thought it might miff the ol' ball and chain. She doesn't know about us yet.
* IAmVeryBritish: St. Clair's accent is swooned over by Anna over the course of the novel, and he uses stereotypically British phrases liberally.
* IdiotBall: Anna takes five days to try and order something at the school cafeteria, unaware that the staff (of a school for American teenagers) speak English. She calls herself out on that.
* ImproperlyParanoid: Anna slips into this in her opening narration by enumerating the terrible things that could happen to her little brother Sean in her absence.
* IronicName: After Anna has told him about her Scottish ancestry, St. Clair finds her little brother's name Sean to be this.
--> '''St. Clair:''' That's a little Irish for a family with tartan bedspreads.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: Anna and St. Clair claim this throughout the first novel, even sleeping in one bed and claiming to be friends.
* LastNameBasis: All of St. Clair's friends call him by his last name. [[FirstNameBasis His first name is reserved for his current girlfriend.]]
* MommasBoy: St. Clair declares his love for his mother "with no trace of teenage shame" and proudly wears the less-than-nice hat his mother knitted for him.
* TheMovieBuff: Anna has a fascination with film, wants to study film theory, and writes film reviews on her website ''Femme Film Freak''.
* TheNapoleon: Discussed and averted by St. Clair. He goes as far as comparing himself to Napoleon based on height, but his personality has nothing to do with the expected short temper.
--> He doesn’t carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly
* NeatFreak: Anna. She even comments on the proper way to clean windows once in her narration.
* NewTransferStudent: Anna's novel starts with her beginning at SOAP this way.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: During their fight [[spoiler: after Toph loudly reveals that he started dating Bridgette during a concert, Bridgette yells at Anna for leaving her in "Shitlanta". Anna yells back that Bridgette turned her brother against her, and runs off the stage in tears after damaging several instruments. It's so bad that when Bridgette attempts to apologise to Anna for what she said and for the whole awkward situation that Anna doesn't respond to her for months]].
* OpenSecret: Rashmi's pet rabbit, Isis, is technically a secret, since animals are not allowed in the dorms, but according to Anna it's impossible not to notice the smell from outside her door.
* OutnumberedSibling: Nikhil Devi is the only brother to older sisters Leela and Rashmi and younger sister Sanjita.
* ParentsAsPeople: Anna's dad just sends her off to SOAP without even considering how she may fell about it, because he's absentminded due to being a writer. Her mother meanwhile is constantly exhausted and stressed from being a single parent.
* PrimalFear: St. Clair is afraid of heights.
* RejectedApology: Anna for a long time refuses to hear Bridgette's constant apologies for [[spoiler:how she handled the hole hooking up with Anna's crush, not telling Anna, and then blaming her for leaving Atlanta when obviously it wasn't Anna's choice to go to Paris. Anna finally responds to her after she ends up in a similar situation with St. Clair, who has a girlfriend]].
* TheReveal: St. Clair didn't reconcile with Ellie after he kissed Anna... he broke up with her.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Anna's best friend Bridgette owns all twenty volumes of ''The Oxford English Dictionary'' and has a tendency of using long and obscure words in everyday conversation just to watch people's reactions to them.
* ShoutOut:
** In the first chapter, Anna says going to boarding school is [[Literature/HarryPotter "so Hogwarts"]].
** Anna compares the neighbourhood of her school to the setting of Literature/ALittlePrincess "if it took place in France."
** Among the books assigned to the senior English class are Literature/LikeWaterForChocolate and Literature/BalzacAndTheLittleChineseSeamstress.
** A user handle on Anna's website is [[Literature/AClockworkOrange ''clockworkorange88'']].
** Toph calls Anna [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe ''Annabel Lee'']].
** Anna invites her friends to see Film/ItHappenedOneNight at the cinema. She later watches Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington and Film/TexasChainSawMassacre1974.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Josh and Rashmi are this early on in the book.
* SkunkStripe: Anna has a bleached stripe in her dark hair. It earns her the EmbarrassingNickname "Skunk Girl", courtesy of Amanda.
* SouthernBelle: Anna is an aversion. She is from Atlanta, but has nothing to do with the stereotypes associated with the trope. Still, the trope is discussed by St. Clair who comments on her lack of a southern accent.
* {{Stereotype}}: Anna's knowledge of France prior to going there comes down to every possible stereotype about the country and its people, completed by her assumptions based on rumours she's heard.
* ThatCameOutWrong: When St. Clair visits Anna in her dorm room for the first time, she tells him "You can touch anything of mine you want." She means that she's okay with him picking up her belongings to look at them.
* VocalDissonance: The opera singer Anna often hears from her dorm room is a very small woman with a very powerful voice.
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* AbusiveParents: St. Clair's father is emotionally abusive, to the point that he wants to keep St. Clair isolated from his sick mother.
* AccentSlipUp: Anna slips into a southern accent when talking to her mother because she has one, but her southern origin isn't otherwise discernible from her speech.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** Amanda's posse is described as a "Posse of Pretty Preppy People".
** Anna's website is called ''Femme Film Freak''.
** Anna describes the cathedral of Notre Dame as "Massive. Monstrous. Majestic."
* AdjustingYourGlasses: Rashmi does this after Amanda makes a mean comment about them, showing that it got to her at least a little.
* AlphaBitch: Amanda is one at SOAP, complete with snark, hair flips and a GirlPosse.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Anna and Bridgette look like sisters, except Bridge is "prettier and smarter and more talented."
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Anna's father is a novelist who writes cheesy, ClicheStorm books with generic titles and a large audience of middle-aged women. Anna is deeply embarrassed by that, and St. Clair and Rashmi's reactions to her description of one of his novels is a clear indicator why.
* AudienceSurrogate: Anna is this with regards to SOAP and Paris in general.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted with Josh and Rashmi in the first novel. They argue constantly despite caring about each other, and Anna notes that their relationship is unhealthy. They break up in the end.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: According to Anna, her brother Sean, who is ten years younger than her, was either a mistake or a last-ditch effort to save her parents' failing marriage. If it was the latter, it didn't work very well.
* BirthdayHater: St. Clair doesn't celebrate his birthday and treats it as [[ButForMeItWasTuesday any other day]]. He has [[DeadpanSnarker no objection to Fridays]], though.
* BoldInflation: Amanda tends to emphasise a random word in every sentence she speaks.
* BollywoodNerd: Rashmi is of Indian descent and a straight- A student with a fascination for Egyptology.
* ButNotTooForeign: St. Clair is British and French, but also American.
* TheClan: Anna is part of one on her Scottish maternal grandfather's side. They have a tartan and a motto that, much to Anna's embarrassment, turns out to be in French, which she never knew before St. Clair points it out to her.
* CrashIntoHello/ MeetCute: Anna meets St. Clair during her first night at SOAP by bumping into him at the door of Meredith's room.
* DeadpanSnarker: Anna has tendencies towards this, especially in her narration.
* DinnerOrderFlub: On her first day at SOAP, Anna is hesitant to order food in the cafeteria for fear of ending up with this trope as she doesn't speak French, which the menu is written in. Luckily, she finds out the staff speaks English.
* DoesNotDrive: Despite being old enough to drive, St. Clair says the transit systems in the three cities he divides his time between, Paris, London, and San Francisco, are perfectly sufficient for him.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Isla appears as a junior in a brief scene. In her senior year, she gets the spotlight in her own book.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Rash for Rashmi. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Anna's narration.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: St. Clair is one of the most desired guys at SOAP and has homoerotic subtext with his best friend Josh.
* EtTuBrute: Anna is devastated and upset when she finds out that [[spoiler:Bridgette and her crush Toph have become a couple. She calls out Bridgette for dating her crush, and for not telling her]].
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.
* FishOutOfWater: Anna feels like this when she ends up in a boarding school in France with people who've known each other for years and she doesn't know anyone or speak a word of French. She gets better soon.
* FlippingTheBird: Anna does this to St. Clair once, and he responds with the British "V" version.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** St. Clair introduces himself to Anna as Étienne. Only his girlfriend calls him by his first name. It was hinted at that they would get together from the time they first met.
** St. Clair tells Anna the superstition that whoever stands on the Point Zero star, will come back to Paris someday. Fast-forward to the epilogue of the third book a year later, the two of them are in the exact same spot again and [[spoiler: St. Clair proposes to Anna]].
* FunWithHomophones: Anna's nickname for Bridgette (Saunderwick) is Bridge Sandwich, and Bridgette's for Anna (Oliphant) is Banana Elephant. It's even made into a VisualPun by the figurines of those objects that the two give each other as gifts.
* FunetikAksent: The school cafeteria chef, Mr. Boutin, speaks English like this.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Anna is anxious about appearing obviously American to Parisians, so St. Clair fixes that... by giving her a Canadian flag to put on her backpack.
** Several actual examples of tourists with ridiculous clothing walk by as she discusses this worry of hers with St. Clair.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and St. Clair are this in spades, often bordering on HoYay.
* TheHilarityOfHats: St. Clair has a hat that his friends find ugly and funny, but he loves it because [[MommasBoy his mother made it for him]].
* HoYay: St. Clair and Josh's friendship has a lot of subtext, usually in the form of jokes delivered by one of the two.
--> '''Josh:''' I'm asking him to prom. This is our year, I just know it.
--> ''[...]''
--> '''St. Clair:''' No kiss? I'm crushed, mate?
--> '''Josh:''' Thought it might miff the ol' ball and chain. She doesn't know about us yet.
* IAmVeryBritish: St. Clair's accent is swooned over by Anna over the course of the novel, and he uses stereotypically British phrases liberally.
* IdiotBall: Anna takes five days to try and order something at the school cafeteria, unaware that the staff (of a school for American teenagers) speak English. She calls herself out on that.
* ImproperlyParanoid: Anna slips into this in her opening narration by enumerating the terrible things that could happen to her little brother Sean in her absence.
* IronicName: After Anna has told him about her Scottish ancestry, St. Clair finds her little brother's name Sean to be this.
--> '''St. Clair:''' That's a little Irish for a family with tartan bedspreads.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: Anna and St. Clair claim this throughout the first novel, even sleeping in one bed and claiming to be friends.
* LastNameBasis: All of St. Clair's friends call him by his last name. [[FirstNameBasis His first name is reserved for his current girlfriend.]]
* MommasBoy: St. Clair declares his love for his mother "with no trace of teenage shame" and proudly wears the less-than-nice hat his mother knitted for him.
* TheMovieBuff: Anna has a fascination with film, wants to study film theory, and writes film reviews on her website ''Femme Film Freak''.
* TheNapoleon: Discussed and averted by St. Clair. He goes as far as comparing himself to Napoleon based on height, but his personality has nothing to do with the expected short temper.
--> He doesn’t carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly
* NeatFreak: Anna. She even comments on the proper way to clean windows once in her narration.
* NewTransferStudent: Anna's novel starts with her beginning at SOAP this way.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: During their fight [[spoiler: after Toph loudly reveals that he started dating Bridgette during a concert, Bridgette yells at Anna for leaving her in "Shitlanta". Anna yells back that Bridgette turned her brother against her, and runs off the stage in tears after damaging several instruments. It's so bad that when Bridgette attempts to apologise to Anna for what she said and for the whole awkward situation that Anna doesn't respond to her for months]].
* OpenSecret: Rashmi's pet rabbit, Isis, is technically a secret, since animals are not allowed in the dorms, but according to Anna it's impossible not to notice the smell from outside her door.
* OutnumberedSibling: Nikhil Devi is the only brother to older sisters Leela and Rashmi and younger sister Sanjita.
* ParentsAsPeople: Anna's dad just sends her off to SOAP without even considering how she may fell about it, because he's absentminded due to being a writer. Her mother meanwhile is constantly exhausted and stressed from being a single parent.
* PrimalFear: St. Clair is afraid of heights.
* RejectedApology: Anna for a long time refuses to hear Bridgette's constant apologies for [[spoiler:how she handled the hole hooking up with Anna's crush, not telling Anna, and then blaming her for leaving Atlanta when obviously it wasn't Anna's choice to go to Paris. Anna finally responds to her after she ends up in a similar situation with St. Clair, who has a girlfriend]].
* TheReveal: St. Clair didn't reconcile with Ellie after he kissed Anna... he broke up with her.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Anna's best friend Bridgette owns all twenty volumes of ''The Oxford English Dictionary'' and has a tendency of using long and obscure words in everyday conversation just to watch people's reactions to them.
* ShoutOut:
** In the first chapter, Anna says going to boarding school is [[Literature/HarryPotter "so Hogwarts"]].
** Anna compares the neighbourhood of her school to the setting of Literature/ALittlePrincess "if it took place in France."
** Among the books assigned to the senior English class are Literature/LikeWaterForChocolate and Literature/BalzacAndTheLittleChineseSeamstress.
** A user handle on Anna's website is [[Literature/AClockworkOrange ''clockworkorange88'']].
** Toph calls Anna [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe ''Annabel Lee'']].
** Anna invites her friends to see Film/ItHappenedOneNight at the cinema. She later watches Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington and Film/TexasChainSawMassacre1974.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Josh and Rashmi are this early on in the book.
* SkunkStripe: Anna has a bleached stripe in her dark hair. It earns her the EmbarrassingNickname "Skunk Girl", courtesy of Amanda.
* SouthernBelle: Anna is an aversion. She is from Atlanta, but has nothing to do with the stereotypes associated with the trope. Still, the trope is discussed by St. Clair who comments on her lack of a southern accent.
* {{Stereotype}}: Anna's knowledge of France prior to going there comes down to every possible stereotype about the country and its people, completed by her assumptions based on rumours she's heard.
* ThatCameOutWrong: When St. Clair visits Anna in her dorm room for the first time, she tells him "You can touch anything of mine you want." She means that she's okay with him picking up her belongings to look at them.
* VocalDissonance: The opera singer Anna often hears from her dorm room is a very small woman with a very powerful voice.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cricket and Lola, where Lola claims she's loved him since she's known him.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lola observes that Anna and St. Clair are like this by the second novel, bickering insistently in a loving way.
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* [[BigLittleBrother Big Little Sister]]: Isla's little sister is taller than both of her older sisters.
* CoolOldGuy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, whom, as Isla notes, he seems to tell absolutely everything.
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* InLoveWithLove: Isla decides Josh must be more interested in the idea of a relationship than the one he has with her, so she breaks up with him.
* IntimateArtistry: Josh draws Isla for his book... and she also finds intimate drawings of his ex, Rashmi.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Isla getting into Dartmouth is a given.
* MeanwhileBackAtThe: The previous book in the trilogy takes the main plot out of SOAP. This one takes place at the same time back at the boarding school.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cricket and Lola, where Lola claims she's loved him since she's known him.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lola observes that Anna and St. Clair are like this by the second novel, bickering insistently in a loving way.
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* [[BigLittleBrother Big Little Sister]]: Isla's little sister is taller than both of her older sisters.
* CoolOldGuy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, whom, as Isla notes, he seems to tell absolutely everything.
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* InLoveWithLove: Isla decides Josh must be more interested in the idea of a relationship than the one he has with her, so she breaks up with him.
* IntimateArtistry: Josh draws Isla for his book... and she also finds intimate drawings of his ex, Rashmi.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Isla getting into Dartmouth is a given.
* MeanwhileBackAtThe: The previous book in the trilogy takes the main plot out of SOAP. This one takes place at the same time back at the boarding school.
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* AbusiveParents: St. Clair's father is emotionally abusive, to the point that he wants to keep St. Clair isolated from his sick mother.
* EtTuBrute: Anna is devastated and upset when she finds out that [[spoiler:Bridgette and her crush Toph have become a couple. She calls out Bridgette for dating her crush, and for not telling her]].
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: During their fight [[spoiler:after Toph loudly reveals that he started dating Bridgette during a concert, Bridgette yells at Anna for leaving her in "Shitlanta". Anna yells back that Bridgette turned her brother against her, and runs off the stage in tears after damaging several instruments. It's so bad that when Bridgette attempts to apologize to Anna for what she said and for the whole awkward situation that Anna doesn't respond to her for months]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Anna's dad just sends her off to SOAP without even considering how she may fell about it, because he's absentminded due to being a writer. Her mother meanwhile is constantly exhausted and stressed from being a single parent.
* RejectedApology: Anna for a long time refuses to hear Bridgette's constant apologies for [[spoiler:how she handled the hole hooking up with Anna's crush, not telling Anna, and then blaming her for leaving Atlanta when obviously it wasn't Anna's choice to go to Paris. Anna finally responds to her after she ends up in a similar situation with St. Clair, who has a girlfriend]].
* ParentsAsPeople: Anna's dad just sends her off to SOAP without even considering how she may fell about it, because he's absentminded due to being a writer. Her mother meanwhile is constantly exhausted and stressed from being a single parent.
* RejectedApology: Anna for a long time refuses to hear Bridgette's constant apologies for [[spoiler:how she handled the hole hooking up with Anna's crush, not telling Anna, and then blaming her for leaving Atlanta when obviously it wasn't Anna's choice to go to Paris. Anna finally responds to her after she ends up in a similar situation with St. Clair, who has a girlfriend]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: YourCheatingHeart:
** Averted when [[spoiler:Bridgette gets together with Anna's crush Toph, since Anna and Toph had never actually gone out or become a couple. Anna is still obviously mad because an entirely different line was crossed]].
** St. Clair admits he feels like he was emotionally cheating on Ellie for the whole year he spent with Anna, and is blasted for it.
** Averted when [[spoiler:Bridgette gets together with Anna's crush Toph, since Anna and Toph had never actually gone out or become a couple. Anna is still obviously mad because an entirely different line was crossed]].
** St. Clair admits he feels like he was emotionally cheating on Ellie for the whole year he spent with Anna, and is blasted for it.
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''Anna and the French KIss'' is a series of three young adult romance novels by Stephanie Perkins. Each novel follows a different girl from a group of friends with a dramatic love life.
* ''Anna and the French Kiss'': Anna begins attending SOAP (School for Americans in Paris) against her will, but she quickly develops feelings for fellow student Étienne St. Clair... who has a steady girlfriend.
* ''Lola and the Boy Next Door'': Budding costume designer Lola's childhood friend Cricket moves back to her neighborhood and she realises their relationship is about to change dramatically.
* ''Isla and the Happily Ever After'': Isla has had a crush on Josh since their first year at SOAP. They meet again by chance one summer and romance ignites, but she realises quickly that obstacles of distance and personal issues might keep them apart.
The novels have a reputation for being sickly sweet 'guilty pleasure' fiction on book-a-holic websites and blogs.
!!The series contains examples of:
* Alpha Bitch: Amanda is one at soap, complete with snark, hair flips and a GirlPosse.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted with Josh and Rashmi in the first novel. They argue constantly despite caring about each other, and Anna notes that their relationship is unhealthy. They break up in the end.
* BetaCouple: Anna and St. Clair become this in the second novel, and Lola and Cricket join them in the third.
* BettyAndVeronica: A favoured trope in the series. Anna vs Ellie, Cricket vs Max, Isla vs Rashmi.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Multiple per novel! The biggest example is probably Anna and St. Clair's first kiss in the park.
* BoardingSchool: SOAP is one, complete with rich kids and a free-rein setting.
* ButNotTooForeign: St. Clair is British and French, but also American.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cricket and Lola, where Lola claims she's loved him since she's known him.
* Cool Old Guy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, who Isla notes he seems to tell absolutely everything to.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.
* GratuitousFrench: Several of the characters are fluent in French, but French is only directly used in dialogue occasionally, and then only in short, simple phrases.
* HappilyEverAfter: Deliberately invoked in all three novels, to the point where it is in the title and ending of the third. Romantic!
* IAmVeryBritish: St. Clair's accent is swooned over by Anna over the course of the novel, and he uses stereotypically British phrases liberally.
* InLoveWithLove: Isla decides Josh must be more interested in the idea of a relationship than the one he has with her, so she breaks up with him.
* IntimateArtistry: Josh draws Isla for his book... and she also finds intimate drawings of his ex, Rashmi.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: Anna and St. Clair claim this throughout the first novel, even sleeping in one bed and claiming to be friends.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Isla getting into Dartmouth is a given.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lola observes that Anna and St. Clair are like this by the second novel, bickering insistently in a loving way.
* NewTransferStudent: Anna's novel starts with her beginning at SOAP this way.
* TheReveal: St. Clair didn't reconcile with Ellie after he kissed Anna... he broke up with her.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: All three novels have a central couple who may or may not get together for good.
* Your Cheating Heart: St. Clair admits he feels like he was emotionally cheating on Ellie for the whole year he spent with Anna, and is blasted for it.
* ''Anna and the French Kiss'': Anna begins attending SOAP (School for Americans in Paris) against her will, but she quickly develops feelings for fellow student Étienne St. Clair... who has a steady girlfriend.
* ''Lola and the Boy Next Door'': Budding costume designer Lola's childhood friend Cricket moves back to her neighborhood and she realises their relationship is about to change dramatically.
* ''Isla and the Happily Ever After'': Isla has had a crush on Josh since their first year at SOAP. They meet again by chance one summer and romance ignites, but she realises quickly that obstacles of distance and personal issues might keep them apart.
The novels have a reputation for being sickly sweet 'guilty pleasure' fiction on book-a-holic websites and blogs.
!!The series contains examples of:
* Alpha Bitch: Amanda is one at soap, complete with snark, hair flips and a GirlPosse.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted with Josh and Rashmi in the first novel. They argue constantly despite caring about each other, and Anna notes that their relationship is unhealthy. They break up in the end.
* BetaCouple: Anna and St. Clair become this in the second novel, and Lola and Cricket join them in the third.
* BettyAndVeronica: A favoured trope in the series. Anna vs Ellie, Cricket vs Max, Isla vs Rashmi.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Multiple per novel! The biggest example is probably Anna and St. Clair's first kiss in the park.
* BoardingSchool: SOAP is one, complete with rich kids and a free-rein setting.
* ButNotTooForeign: St. Clair is British and French, but also American.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Cricket and Lola, where Lola claims she's loved him since she's known him.
* Cool Old Guy: Josh's chauffeur, Brian, who Isla notes he seems to tell absolutely everything to.
* CostumePorn: Lola's self-designed outfits are described in great detail.
* FirstLove: Rashmi is portrayed as Josh's flawed but valued first love.
* FirstGirlWins: Anna literally manages to fall in love with the first guy she meets in her book.
* GratuitousFrench: Several of the characters are fluent in French, but French is only directly used in dialogue occasionally, and then only in short, simple phrases.
* HappilyEverAfter: Deliberately invoked in all three novels, to the point where it is in the title and ending of the third. Romantic!
* IAmVeryBritish: St. Clair's accent is swooned over by Anna over the course of the novel, and he uses stereotypically British phrases liberally.
* InLoveWithLove: Isla decides Josh must be more interested in the idea of a relationship than the one he has with her, so she breaks up with him.
* IntimateArtistry: Josh draws Isla for his book... and she also finds intimate drawings of his ex, Rashmi.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything: Anna and St. Clair claim this throughout the first novel, even sleeping in one bed and claiming to be friends.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Isla getting into Dartmouth is a given.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lola observes that Anna and St. Clair are like this by the second novel, bickering insistently in a loving way.
* NewTransferStudent: Anna's novel starts with her beginning at SOAP this way.
* TheReveal: St. Clair didn't reconcile with Ellie after he kissed Anna... he broke up with her.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: All three novels have a central couple who may or may not get together for good.
* Your Cheating Heart: St. Clair admits he feels like he was emotionally cheating on Ellie for the whole year he spent with Anna, and is blasted for it.
