French Kissing, Season 1

Harper Bliss has written several novels, novelettes and short stories in the past four years and I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of them. The serial French Kissing is definitely one of my favorites. The French Kissing series is set in Paris and tells the story of four friends and lovers: Juliette, Nadia, Claire, and Stephanie. Following these women through the emotional craziness that is life, was astonishing. Fantastic writing, wonderful characters, and a rollercoaster of emotions. The characters and situations feel real, the pain and love palpable and the book also has nicely placed, tastefully written erotic love scenes. It doesn’t take long to be drawn in to the story and to me that’s the sign of a good book. French Kissing is a series that consists of three seasons and each season contains several installments. The complete first season, contains 6 episodes. Season two is a terrific follow up to season one and contains episodes 7-10 (French Kissing: Season Two). More drama, heartbreak, regret, friendship, atonement and eventually love. The third and final season, episodes 11-14 (French Kissing: Season Three), delivers the answers to all the drama-laden storylines and is the perfect ending for the French Kissing series. A definite re-read for me now the whole series is complete.

It took me so long to read this book, not because it's terrible, far from it. This book is well written, includes very well-put together characters, and finishes out strong with a pleasing cliffhanger. This book does a great job putting things in a order specifically giving the reader each character's point of view of any on going situation. However, because what seems to comprise a lot of these pages is well, your standard college age drama but with professional 40 year old lesbians in Paris, the book can be quite trying on one's patience for the mundane drama that these characters are told to exhibit. However, with that being said, this book is still a solid read with a strong finish.

This book is set in Paris and tells the story of 4 friends. Juliette, Nadia, Claire, and Stephanie. Juliette is best friends with Claire and they own a successful PR firm and their friend Stephanie also works with them. The firm has just taken on their first ever politician as a client, the feisty Dominque Laroche. Nadia and Juliette have been together for 10 years and their relationship which was once great and never lacking passion has slipped into a rut. If you can't fix your own relationship why not play matchmaker for your friend. Nadia introduces Claire to a sexy surgeon, but are they compatible? Stephanie has been tasked to research Dominque Laroche to find out if she has any skeletons in her closet and what she finds is a game changer. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Harper Bliss is a great author who pays incredible attention to the details of each character and story line. I have read the whole series and can not wait for the next season to come out in Feb 2016. The characters are addicting, the drama draws you in and each episode leaves you wanting more.