If you like your romances light and fluffy, you will adore this story. I’m a sucker for a fairy tale retelling. Anna Admans does a great job at taking Cinderella and putting her own fun, unique spin on this classic tale. Anna has written a story that you cannot help but fall in love with. This really was a fun whirlwind of a read. I loved how this book takes us all over the world. We get to explore Paris, New York, and Nigeria, and Anna does a wonderful job of bringing these places to life. The story moves along steadily, and Anna knows how to keep hooking her readers in with either a dramatic twist or a swoony moment. It really was a fun read.

The main heroine is smart, kind, hardworking, and so talented. From the moment that I met her, I wanted to succeed. Maude’s growth in this book is centred around believing in herself and learning to stand up to her awful foster parents. This book is Maude’s coming-of-age story. She learns more about her past, which has been hidden from her by her foster parents; she grows up as a musician and just explores the world and all it has to offer. It was so much fun being on this journey with Maude. The romance is sweet. I liked the banter and chemistry between Maude and Matt. This is a clean YA romance, so nothing spicy happens on the page.

Oh no...I wanted to like this one a lot more than I did.

On the surface, it seems delightful. A fish out of water story of a French opera singer, singing pop for a record label and finding more about her background while at it. The author herself is French-American and Nigerian, which is really cool that she put so much of herself into the book. Unfortunately, the execution was just NOT it. I couldn't stand any of the characters, and that includes the character building of the settings of France and New York. What sanitized world are they living in where all of these teenagers are ultimate pop stars and get 20 million followers just by having one cover? Why were the characters so all-or-nothing in being good or evil?

I get that this is a Wattpad story. But if we are putting a Wattpad story on NetGalley for me to review, with presumably a wider release, I expect it to be a bit, well, more.

Thank you to NetGalley, Wattpad Webtoon Book Group, and the author for an eARC in exchange for my honest review. Sorry about this one.

The title is so good, and I am so happy that this is book one in a series!! The main character is a French girl, and an orphan living with a family in New York. She has a Cinderella moment where she is discovered as a singer, and has a lot of wonderful adventures.

This was a fun, debut YA romcom that reads like a reverse Emily in Paris and has a young French girl travelling to New York City where she falls in love. Delightful and light-hearted, this is a quick, feel-good read. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

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I’ll start by saying that I really wanted to like this book. I liked the concept, of a small-town girl making a run at living her musical dream in a big city with some Cinderella tie-in. However, I wasn't too fond of the execution.

From the beginning, everything felt so rushed. While I’m a fan of getting to the point this book didn't really take time to build things up. There were times throughout the story when I felt characters would have been more angry about something that happened, asked more questions, or spent more time on a particular topic. Something big would happen on one page and be resolved or brushed over in the next. It all just felt kind of disjointed.

I also wasn't a huge of most of the characters (although I thought the Baldwins were okay). I did like Nigerian representation and learning a little bit about the culture and history. I also liked the exploration of different types of music but overall, this book didn't really hit the mark for me.


Thank you, Wattpad Books, NetGalley, and Anna Adams for allowing me the opportunity to review this book!

This book was ok. Not awful, but not good. The writing was juvenile, and the characters were uninspired. The prose was not particularly engaging or descriptive. I felt like I was reading filler most of the time. At the same time, a lot happens very fast. Maude goes viral, she gets signed, she falls in love with a boy. I was not interested in the petty drama between Maude and the mean girl Lindsey, or the awkward love triangle between Maude and Thomas and Matt. The author also doesn’t know much about classical singing either, it seems. Assigning Cenerentola to a bunch of teenagers seems pedagogically irresponsible. No 16 year old should be singing “Non piu mesta,” I wouldn’t care, except this is a major plot point. Overall, a very disappointing read.

First I would like to thank Netgalley and Wattpas books for the ARC of this novel.

This was a cute and sweet YA novel. It felt a little young for me but I think it’s is a book my middle schooler would love.

The friendships in the book were great and it had the right amount of laughs. I think this book is perfect for the young YA audience.

3.5/5 rounded up to 4 for this review.

This book was so sweet! It had a good amount of everything- romance, laughs, sadness, and family love. Maude’s relationship and friendships during the book were my favorite. Very well written.

This book I think is a great YA, just not for me. The characters are based on high school and I their personalities showed that, just too young for me. The writing style didn’t peak my interest so it was hard to get through, especially with all of the drama between Maude and her two love interests. It seemed to take away from a lot of her goal of finding out who her parents are.

It was interesting to read about Nigerian culture and how the main character was able to discover a part of her heritage that she lost when she was fostered. As I said, probable a great book, just not for me!

A French Girl in New York was a cute ya/middle grade book and I think it’s exactly the kind of story I would have loved in my middle school years.

As an adult it was a bit tough for me to get into because I’m not the target audience, but it was well done and I appreciated the story. I also really liked the Nigerian representation and opportunity to learn more about the Igbo culture.

Thanks to Wattpad books and NetGalley for the arc!

This would be great as a palette cleanser. It's cute and fun with a lot of fluff thrown in. It's a modern take on Cinderella, so you kind of know what story you're getting going into it. It's a very quick read, definitely a great read-in-a-day beach read. There's not a ton of character development, but that's okay because this isn't necessarily the type of book that needs that. It's just a what you see is what you get kind of book, and that's not a knock by any means. Sometimes it's exactly what you need. It's just a straight-forward, light-hearted, fairy tale retelling.

Maude loves opera and dreams of becoming a singer. One day when she goes viral in paris, she suddenly is whisked away to New York City to become a music artist. She has to write three hitting singles in six months or she's sent back to paris with her unloving foster family.

It was a nice concept and the Cinderella theme was a nice touch! Besides that, I wasn't too invested in Maude's story. I wanted more challenges and more of it being hard to pick between options. a little more of everything. I didn't understand the relationship between Maude and Matt because there was zero chemistry and she hated him for half the story. then suddenly, she likes him? It was very confusing, but also why are you holding a grudge against someone for spilling coffee on you by mistake? The plot was also kind of predictable.

I couldn't connect with Maude because I felt like she didn't have any personality. She is obsessed with opera music and it was nice to see her explore other genres of music. She can hold a grudge over the stupidest things and won't even befriend someone because of the spilled coffee. All of the characters were really bland and didn't get a lot of chance to show any personality. The Baldwins were alright, but I didn't love them. Maude's foster family were jerks. Matt and Thomas were terrible love interests because there was no chemistry between them and maude. All the characters just seemed very underdeveloped. The rest of the characters I didn't talk about weren't memorable enough to be mentioned by name. I just remember Lindsey existing and I don't even remember why nobody liked her. None of the characters will be memorable for me.

To be fair, I feel like this book is geared towards younger audiences and not someone who typically reads very complex stories. To me, this story lacked in everything I enjoy in a book and I don't think I'll be finishing the series because I don't think it'll get any better for me.

I wanted to love - but I just could not get into the book. I ended up DNF'ing about 35% in - just not for me, but maybe for someone else

I am thankful to have gotten the eARC for free from Netgalley and Wattpad books so I can leave my voluntary and honest review.


I’m guessing this is a rerelease as it’s obviously been published before but is due to return in October 15 2024.

The book was an ok read. The storyline was fun and it was fairly well written. Unfortunately I was bored. It took me several days to read it as I just didn’t warm up to it. I can’t put my finger on why.

This is definitely on a younger end of the YA spectrum in how it reads so for a young teen this may be a perfect story to get lost in.

My rating system since GoodReads doesn’t have partial stars and I rarely round up.

⭐️ Hated it
⭐️⭐️ Had a lot of trouble, prose issues, really not my cup of tea (potentially DNF’d or thought about it)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meh, it was an ok read but nothing special
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Really enjoyed it! Would recommend to others
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Outstanding! Will circle back and read again

I really enjoyed this book! It was a very cute YA read and was very refreshing! I loved Maude as a main character. Not only did we follow her on her musical journey but we also followed her on her own personal journey about family and love. I enjoyed that there were lyrics to her songs in the book so that you could see what she was writing while in New York! Overall, I would recommend this to anyone looking for a cute YA story with a little romance and depth!

"A French Girl in New York" was a cute and enjoyable read. That being said there is not a lot of complexity to this story, but it is fun like a Hallmark movie for young teens. From the beginning I felt it gave off Cinderella vibes when we meet Maude's foster family. So I thought is was fun with they put in the Cinderella Opera. It was a really fund story and I think young people who enjoy Disney channel stories of being discovered and succeeding in the end, or Hallmark stories will really love this book. For example, when she goes to Paris for a day with school and a music producer from New York hears her sing. She is soon signed on a record label and heads to New York for six months. She immediately fits in with the producer's family and immediately makes friends. I really enjoyed the characters, and how they interacted. I recommend this series and I can't wait to see what happens next with Maude and her new found family. I read it quickly and really enjoyed it.

Thank you NetGalley for the eArc to review.

This book talks about Maude Laurent, a girl from Carvin, France who has big dreams of becoming a world renowned opera singer. After going viral in Paris on a school trip singing in a cafe, a big musical agent comes out and takes her to New York to pursue her dreams in exchange of making the charts with her music.

This was a cute little book. Maude was someone who just trying to figure out her way in the world, her sense of identity, and just become a musician as it was a way of escaping her reality. I liked the Baldwin family. They were very close knit and loving and accepting of Maude, which was very nice. But overall, it was an easy read. Definitely for someone who is a teenager and just trying to find their way in this compex society.

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This was my first book by author Anna Adams. I normally am reading 2-4 books at a time and some a very heavy. This book came at the time I needed a nice romance. The authors knowledge of musical training was apparent as you read This story. The main character was a young classical Musically talented black orphaned girl I was drawn in by that part alone. This story puts you in the mind of a YA Cinderella story via the help of social media. Maude big break comes on a school field trip where she sings at a cafe while playing the piano. He journey from this moment showed her character growth. She gets a visa and goes to ny where she follows her dreams and looks for info about her past. The only reason this book wasn’t five stars for me was because I felt I needed more from the plot. Maude finds out about her parents and the romance between her & Matt felt unfinished. The political importance of who her parents were i wish was addressed more in the plot. Maudes character put me in the mind of @singkirbysing. Her voice is so unique and powerful. Thank you @wattpadbooks and @netgalley for this ARC.

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A French Girl in New York is a fun and light modern Cinderella story. Small town girl gets famous overnight and ends up in a big city. It's cute, fun and refreshing. My students will enjoy it.

Thank you netgalley for an arc of A French Girl in New York by Anna Adams

This was a unique and fun summer romcom that I really enjoyed and highly recommend. The characters were very well done and the chemistry was on par!