Book Review: First You Plz by Nisha Takur

"First to Plz" is a sweet and simple story about an immature girl. The book was very short, i could finish it in just three hours. 

The female character of the novel, Avanti is a sweet girl who is very homesick as she is away for MBA at her new college. Her best friends Meenakshi and Rachana are with her in her new journey. Here, she meets Akash, a handsome boy, whom she falls in love at first sight. He is adorable and Avanti is unable to take her eyes off him, why she herself doesn't know. She feels that Akash is her first love and secretly nurtures the dream that he will propose to her first. The story goes on from there as Avanti tries to know what is in Akash's mind and if he is interested in her,  will he understand her feelings and who will propose first!

In my opinion, the story was very shot and sweet, Avanti as the author herself has depicted as a immature girl, i felt she is more sensitive than immature in most of the book. As she is away from her parents, very homesick, it is natural she tries finding comfort in her friends. When she starts falling for Akash, even for a very small thing he says or does, she feels hurt. I think it sometimes happens someone you love tease you or make fun of you, it will hurt your feelings, i think it is because of that particular age. But, then, there were some things in the novel which i felt was very immature behavior like when she cries because Akash tells her she is cute and not beautiful.Also, there is not much insight into Akash's feelings or thoughts in the book but as the author has depicted the story as Avanti's story, it was ok! But i always love a story when both the character's have their own point-of-view. Otherwise, it was ok, a page-turning book, author has tried to create an interest from the first page. But, still when i finished the book, i felt like there was not much as a story, i like books with a solid storyline. One more i felt was, the end was abrupt, it would have been nice if there was something more at the end, some more pages with the happy ending.

All in all, First you Plz is a sweet read if you prefer a simple, not much time-consuming read. I liked reading it. It was a nice debut novel by Nisha Thakur.

Book Review: The Best Man by Kristan Higgins

The Best Man is the one of the best book i have ever read. I loved Kristan Higgins writing. This has become one of my favorite Ms. Higgins book.
It is funny, sweet, and entertaining with lot of interesting characters and a good plot.

GoodReads Summary:

Sometimes the best man is the one you least expect?

Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she's ready to return to the Blue Heron Winery, her family's vineyard, to confront the ghosts of her past, and maybe enjoy a glass of red. After all, there's some great scenery there?.

Like Levi Cooper, the local police chief and best friend of her former fiancé. There's a lot about Levi that Faith never noticed, and it's not just those deep green eyes. The only catch is she's having a hard time forgetting that he helped ruin her wedding all those years ago. If she can find a minute amidst all her family drama to stop and smell the rosé, she just might find a reason to stay at Blue Heron, and finish that walk down the aisle.

Faith is a lovable, sweet person who lost her mother at a young age and still carries the grief in her life as she thinks she was responsible for her mother's accident, which affects all her important decisions in life. Her most important decision of life being marrying Jeremy, who was her high school sweetheart and town doctor who was a perfect man but she gets jilted at the altar when he announces himself as gay. She always did good things for others to make them happy without caring for her happiness so that she can forgive herself. Thatsy she never use to understand Levi Cooper who seemed not to like her and always felt Levi was the one who ruined her marriage by outing his best friend.

Levi always thought of Faith as "Princess super-cute - spoiled, irritating and ditzy", but he was attracted to her even when she was her best friend's fiancee.
Now, after 3 years, Faith as a successful landscape designer has come back to her hometown Blue Heron to do a work on their Holland barn and end up as a next door neighbor to Levi. When both start getting to know each other, they realize what they thought about each other was far from the truth and their feelings for each other are deep. They start falling for each other and it is the best part of the story, a sweet romantic part - it is amazing.

I would say the book is lovely, the depiction, Ms. Higgins writing style and the characterizations are fabulous. Lot of humorous dialogues which makes for the fun part. Faith has a quite interesting family, with her grands always bickering, i loved pops and groggy. All her family members were interesting characters including Faith's niece and nephew, nicely depicted secondary characters. There are lot of funny dating scenes with Faith dating different people, either non-straight men or liars and also Faith fixing her dad on dates, very witty and entertaining.

One of the dialogue from the novel i loved best where Faith describes Levi:

Twice in her life, Faith had been in love. Once with a man so perfect she should’ve known there was something wrong. And now with a man who wasn’t perfect at all, who was stubborn, occasionally irritable, and mildly to moderately constipated when it came to emotions, and maybe had some abandonment issues going on, too, not to mention the weight of the world on his shoulders.
He was also the best man she knew.
There was nothing he wouldn’t do to help someone. Find a cat on a dark night, drive an hour to do his sister’s laundry, wash a dog covered in chicken poop, let his ex-wife say her piece. Go out in the middle of the night to reconstruct a twenty-year-old accident. Stop his best friend’s wedding when he knew it would only lead to misery...for Jeremy and for her.

One thing is found little bit irritating was Faith forming ridiculous conlusions of Levi. she has her own boredom scale in which she will measure Levi's expression from 0 to 10 and the she is using this scale at every time she meets Levi in the book, i don't know it was slightly repetitive and just that i was not happy reading about that part.

All in all, it was a good book, but with a predictable plot and some cliqued moments but, a lovely, romantic, fun read.
I would rate it as fantastic!!