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Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer

7 reviews

literarymary95's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book because I wanted to read more from authors that I've enjoyed in the past. I loved Marissa’s Cinder series and when I saw she was writing a young adult romance book, I was intrigued to see how it would go. Let's just say Marissa has made me hate a character almost as much as Belly from The Summer I Turned Pretty.

This book is based on chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett, and she is always quick to cast judgement 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 make 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 centre for local sea animals. When Pru resigns herself to working at the rescue centre for extra credit, she begins to uncover truths about baby otters, environmental upheaval, and romantic crossed signals – not necessarily in that order. Her newfound karmic insights reveal how thin the line is between virtue and vanity, generosity and greed, love and hate.

One of the main issues I had with this book is that Prudence is not a nice person. Like at all. She shouldn’t have this “power” for the instant karma because she deserves the karma and all the shit to come down on her. She is so immature and selfish, and her thoughts were exhausting. I found myself skimming over her thoughts because I was bored and just didn’t need to hear them. I am aware it’s a young adult book, so they aren’t going to act mature or normal, but I was still rolling my eyes throughout the whole book. This was the time where I wanted the physical book instead of reading it on my kindle so that I could physically throw the book at a wall. Quint has a funny way of showing that he liked her, he is constantly belittling her and just throwing random ass accusations at her and just trying to piss her off which makes her more annoying. I’m aware again that it’s a young adult book and it’s like oh he is picking on me, so he likes me, and he told his mum about me, like get better standards. Plus, Quint just instantly accusing her when the whole town was struggling for money instead of building on the trust, they had spent the whole book figuring out just drove me nuts.

I liked the save the animals side and I wanted more from Jude and his crush and whether they got together, and I liked Ari and Ezra and wanted to see more from them. The side characters saved this from being 2 stars.

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liz_241's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging funny informative inspiring mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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toberomanced's review

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emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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rain_baby's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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samchase112's review against another edition

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informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Marissa Meyer killed it! This was such a fun book with some of the best character development I've read in a while. I loved the plot (although the "instant karma" portion itself wasn't really relevant at all) and all the small details that went into this book that made it great. Quint was a fun hero, a perfect balance to Prudence, especially in the early parts of the book. I would highly recommend this sweet book; guaranteed to make you smile!

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