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"After falling in love with Anna and St. Clair's adventures in Paris in Anna and the French Kiss, fans of breakout novelist Perkins will adore Lola and her swoon-worthy neighbor Cricket's love story. Once again Perkins uses the setting -- in this case, San Francisco -- as a central character in the book. And unlike Anna, whose story was set in a boarding school, Lola has a fantastic homelife with two doting dads and a feisty dog cleverly named \"Heavens to Betsy.\" Lola is self-possessed and quirky -- a Lady Gaga-lite who creates fabulous costumes as an extension of her personality. She's beautiful, funny, and comfortable in her skin, so it's hard to resist Lola's charms as a protagonist.\nBut despite Lola's love of presentation, she's nakedly vulnerable when it comes to Cricket. His re-emergence in her life makes her rethink whether her relationship with Max, the 22-year-old punk star, is the Real Thing or a first love that can't go the distance. As Cricket and Lola reconnect -- adorably via their facing second-story windows -- readers will undeniably root for the impossibly tall inventor to win Lola's heart. As an added bonus, Lola works at a movie theater with Anna and the ever-present St. Clair, making it clear that their intercontinental love story is of the forever variety. With its vivid descriptions of how friendship blooms into love, this is a winning romance with sparkly language and a lot of heart."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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