Vinh Phu Phu itibaren 4693 Fallholz, אוסטריה
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This was one of those books where I spent most of the time wanting to just shake the main character. I think that was the point, though. High schooler Nicole doesn't want to spend a semester in France - she just wants to stay home with her friends and plan how she is going to follow her boyfriend Nate wherever he goes to college. In fact, although she is surrounded by Paris museums, yummy crepe stands, and cool new friends at her international school, she continues to pine for Nate and his grammatically-challenged "luv u babe" emails, his forgotten phone dates with her, and her friends' shallow, un-PC correspondences dissing the French. There's even Luc, her host family's suave French "manny," who becomes enamored of Nicole right away, even though the first thing she did upon exiting the airport cab was throw up all over the sidewalk. Luc has some opinions on Nate, and some refreshing ideas on how you don't need to betroth yourself to a certain boy or a certain life at age 17, but Nicole won't hear it. Although it takes way too long to happen, Nicole eventually sees the light and realizes that she is missing out on her current experience by spending all her time pining for people and a life that may not be all that ideal in the first place. Her travels give her some much-needed perspective. So all in all, this is not a bad chick-lit series and I do think it captures some of the challenge of living away from home and being forced, however unwillingly, to see the world in a new way.