Marisa Meyer is an instant buy for me. Loved the Lunar Chronicles. Her Renegades series was such fun. But Instant Karma, was not what I expected from her.

Prudence is burdened with being lab partners with lazy, always late, unbearable Quint Erickson. After Quint almost fails to show up for the final project presentation and she get a C due to their lack of teamwork and science, Prudence fights to get a do-over. She literally screams at her teacher for it. She plans to dedicate her entire summer to re-do the assignment whether or not Quint decides to work with her or not. Oh, and after hitting her head during karaoke night, Prudence can now enact instant karma on people who she thinks are terrible.

Only Prudence is the worst person in this entire book. Well, second worst.

Honestly, if Prudence wasn't a self-entitled, self-centered, uppity person the 75% of the novel I might have liked it more. While there is a redemption arc for her, there is too much of the novel with her unbearable narration and opinion that just makes her utterly dislikeable even when she does start to have redeeming qualities.

The pace is so slow, too much exposition, and all the characters did nothing for me. Even Quint, our obvious love interest, was just so un-interesting. As far as enemies-to-loves tropes go, Quint and Pru just weren't that great. There was just too much attitude and fighting between the two of them that it left a bad taste in my mouth and failed to go even even with the inevitable relationship came to fruition. The way the instant karma plot device was sprinkled into the book took me out of the story. I couldn't grasp the idea that this terrible girl gets to decide who deserves karmic punishment. It is never truly explained why she gets it to begin with and that just bothers me.

I think I only enjoyed the last 10% of the book and all scenes where the universe basically hits Prudence upside the head.

Honestly, Marissa Meyer should stick to her guns and stay away from contemporary.