Instant Karma

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Marissa Meyer: Instant Karma (2021, Square Fish)

paperback, 400 pages

Published Nov. 2, 2021 by Square Fish.

ISBN:
978-1-250-80274-3
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3 stars (3 reviews)

In Marissa Meyer's young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her – both good and bad.

Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her.

Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to mean gossips, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire: Quint Erickson, her slacker of a lab partner. Quint is annoyingly cute and impressively noble, especially when it comes to his work with the rescue center for local sea animals.

When Pru resigns herself to working at the rescue center for extra credit, she begins …

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5 stars

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected I would. Reading a sample from the library, I kinda expected it to be a fairly generic teen romance novel, maybe with a bit of urban fantasy thrown in. I was really surprised. The two main characters grow in a way I'd never expected teenagers to do. Most adults I know won't internalize anger, stop, listen, think, and grow. They really should though. Every main milestone prudence had, every win in her life, I teared up and was excited. I am still shocked how invested I was.

I was first introduced to Meyer's books with the Cinder series. I really enjoyed them and recommended them to my friends. As with those ones, she's able to take a little twist to the existing formula and turn it into something special.

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