I personally was not blown away by The Lunar Chronicles like everyone else seemed to be. I tried it. I got the first one was different and unique, but I struggled to get through the second one, and still haven’t tried to pick up the third one, even though I’ve been told it is really better than the first two. So you might think that I would not bother with this author based on that. However, the synopsis of this one just really sounded cute and fun, and I decided to give it a chance.

Boy am I glad that I did! Because I adored this book! Even as much as I was rooting for our main character, Prudence, there was even a little something about her that wasn’t perfect, that made her real, and made me not just feel like she should be getting so much more to go right for her. But then, that’s kind of the point of the whole book, and the whole instant karma thing. Karma isn’t always what you think it is. People aren’t always really being a bad guy even if to another person it seems like that. It just depends on your viewpoint and your part of the situation.

So much about Prudence I could see in how I was a teenager. But I liked how the author didn’t necessarily concentrate on her insecurities as being all physical, while they definitely kept that it would be at least a little bit. Of course there was Quint. Now we had to think he was irresponsible and a goof off because of where we started the story, we only had Pru’s remembering of the situation. It wasn’t until we got further along, and we saw the reasons for his supposed tardiness and irresponsibility that we realize just maybe he wasn’t exactly the way Pru remembered. And when she herself started thinking back and realizing just how she’d handled situations, it was the perfect way to have a teenager figure things out.

I adored the story, loved all the different aspects of it, and even the little bit of a shout-out to a bit of plot from Dirty Dancing, well at least that’s what it reminded me of as I read it. Great story, and I look forward to reading more contemporary stories by Marissa Meyer in the future!

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.