Kissing Adrien

Well. I wanted to love this book more than I did. That said, it’s a fun book with lots of movement through Paris and lots of cultural things I hadn’t know. Spoilers: What I struggled with was that Adrien was a confident, Frenchman, and seemingly brilliant, yet he couldn’t figure out how to tell Claire he was in love with her. And Claire was equally unaware. BUT, what upset me the most was that the book was called Kissing Adrien and the back talks of kissing all around the City…and they don’t kiss until the final page! Too much angst, not enough forward movement for me.

I enjoyed every minute of this book. It was passionate without being explicit and I didn't want to put it down. You will really enjoy the book. The best I've read in a long time. I'd give it 10 stars.

I loved this book. Couldn't put it down. The love story hooked me from page one, but it was Mitchell's beautiful ability to bless French culture that endeared me. I love that she is able, through the power of story, to address sticky evangelical issues with candor, showing that a Christian can love Jesus and art and wine and beauty, all the while demonstrating grace. I'm almost thankful I was sick this week so I could spend the day with Claire and Adrien.

Almost passed this one by, thought that it would be the usual cheesy, predictable romance but it was wonderful!!! Laugh out loud moments filled the book. I was so into the story that I kept yelling at Claire to LISTEN to Adrien as if she could hear me, you feel that much a part of the story. You will not regret reading this book it is THE BEST by the author thus far and THE best christian romance I have read... BUY it!! You'll get your money's worth, over and over again!!!

I absolutely could not get enough of 'Kissing Adrien'!! Siri Mitchell took a simple American girl and a handsome French man and...created a work of art. I swear it could be a Monet. Siri took everything that a typical American girl, like myself, sees as life (boring as it may sometimes be) and tossed it with le Tour Eiffel, les modes du Français...and very pricy underwear... After reading 'Kissing Adrien' I took a step back and reconsidered my view on some of the issues we American Christians look down upon. OOOH!!! I desperately want to go experience France the same way Claire Le Noyer did...especially on the arm of a handsome Frenchman like Adrien Delaportes. I definitely hope there will be a sequel to 'Kissing Adrien'. Hey, we still need to know what it will be like 'Marrying Adrien' and 'Having Babies with Adrien'...you understand where I'm going with this!!! Read this book!!!!! I'm so glad I came across it! Siri Mitchell, your writing is étonnante, très excellent, et parfait! Please make a sequel!!!!!????;) Chandra Gilleland

Claire travels back to the enchanting City of Light and discovers her inner and outer beauty with the help of her tres charmant childhood friend, Adrien. In this delightful Pygmalionesque story, Adrien takes Claire under his wing like a French big brother. He persuades her occasionally to change into dressier clothes than her t-shirts, shorts and running shoes Parisians so look down on in their beautiful city, and he takes her shopping for chic frocks and stiletto heels. Claire also begins shedding the complacency of her lackluster life in Seattle. She finds she has fallen in love with Paris, the apartment she has inherited, and the mysterious woman who had lived there--and the fabulous clothes the woman left behind. Still, Claire clings to some rigid ways of dressing and thinking and relating to God, much the way she clings to her pink, green and orange backpack. Adrien wines and dines Claire. With sweet Gallic charm and the patience of Job, he looks into her eyes and challenges her cherished stereotypes with his beautiful French accent and animated love of life. Could it be that God Himself created joie de vivre? Witty, handsome Adrien's joie de vivre is all the more reason Claire has always loved him. And how she longs to kiss him. But he could never return the love of a girl like her. So, she helps him deal with an unnamed woman he does love who doesn't seem to get it. The reader gets it, though, and may want to give Claire a shake and Adrien a hug! Having stayed in a small hotel on the Rue Cler and visited the Louvre and so many other sites that Siri Mitchell slips seamlessly into the story with colorful detail, I loved reading about them here. This is a darling story about awakening of heart and spirit in the beautiful city of Paris.