Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Length: 400 pages
Audiobook Length: 14 hours and 14 minutes
First Published: 2020
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Rachael’s Review
Prudence Daniels never hesitates to judge the actions of others in her small coastal town. After a night out, Pru finds herself able to inflict instant karma on anyone. Quickly Pru starts dishing out karma, but it never seems to work on her lazy lab partner, Quint Erickson. As Pru finds herself working at the animal rescue shelter with Quint, she learns that there is a fine line between virtue and vanity as well as love and hate.
A silly young adult book with a good message, I was fine with Instant Karma, if slightly annoyed with Prudence’s irritating judgmental behavior. Then, just over halfway through just as things were smoothing out, Pru made a decision regarding one of the marine animals and I just lost it. I know the author was adding conflict and building toward Pru learning valuable lessons, but I couldn’t stand to witness her careless decision, so I didn’t finish the book.
Publisher’s Description
Chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett 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 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 . . . and fate.
Quotes from Instant Karma
I believe I’m a good person. But what if I’m not?
About Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer was born in the United States and currently lives in Tacoma Washington with her husband and twin daughters. Visit the author’s website →
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