Archive Book Post: Payal Mehta’s Romance Revenge Plot by Preeti Chhibber

Hello book readers! I’m going to start my own theme called “Archive Book Post”. Every Thursday, think of throwback Thursday, I post something book related that I posted in the previous blog I had. This week’s title is…
Payal Mehta’s Romance Revenge Plot by Preeti Chhibber!
This was a book tour I participated last month, on September 30th, 2024. Without further ado, let’s go!
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So, I am currently reading this book. What do I think about it so far?
I would say that I like it! I will post a review as soon as I am done reading the book. Stay tuned!
Thank you Preeti Chhibber, Penguin Teen, and Colored Pages Book Tours for a gifted copy!
Note: I’ll update my review when I finish reading.
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Synopsis:
Payal Mehta has had a crush on popular, athletic, all-around perfect Jonathan Slate ever since he smiled at her in freshman–year Spanish class. At a party during spring break of her junior year, Payal finally works up the courage to ask Jon to hang out. However, her romantic plans are derailed when he vomits on her Keds. Twice. But when Jon offers to take her out to lunch as an apology, Payal is convinced this is the start of their love story.
Over chalupas and burritos at Taco Bell, Payal’s best jokes are landing as planned. Jon is basically choking on his Coke—and then it happens. “Do you have a boyfriend?” Payal is (finally) about to get the guy. And then he tries to set her up with his Indian friend. Payal’s best friends, Neil Patel and Divya Bhatt, are just as mad about the microaggression as Payal is, but they think she’s a little too hung up on him.
Determined to teach Jon a lesson by making him fall for her, Payal ropes in her archnemesis, Philip Kim, to help by ceding creative control over their psych project. It’s the perfect plan. Minus Philip’s snarky, annoying quips and lack of faith in its success. But as Payal lies to the people she loves, hides the too-Indian parts of herself in front of her crush, and learns that maybe Philip isn’t the worst, she starts to wonder if what she’s been looking for has been scowling at her all along…