A fun and entertaining book... great for an afternoon, weekend where you want to escape and just read....

I was very surprised by this book. I found it very engrossing and read it in a day. Will definitely read more Camille Pagan!

Annie is a young woman at a crossroad in her life. She is hyper-intelligent, totally organized and set in her ways. Her dream was go to MIT but she ended up moving to Michigan to stay with her mother and taking a job as a scientist. She loved her job and she loved her fiance Jon, a high school French teacher. All at once, everything goes wrong - she is fired from her job due to unfair circumstances, she is frustrated living at her mother's and to top it all off, Jon calls her from the airport to tell her that he is following a dream and going to spend a month in Paris and doesn't want her to contact him. All of a sudden her organized life has been up-ended and she isn't sure what to do. So she starts cleaning houses - but only for people she knew because she's decided that she has sworn off people and doesn't want to interact with old friends or make new friends. Life has a way of changing your plans and Annie soon had two new friends - Harper, the glamorous woman who moved in next door and Mo, an amateur private detective who is investigating Harper but wants to spend time with Annie. When Jon invites Annie to visit him in Paris, she realizes that she needs to make some deep decisions about the rest of her life. Should she follow Jon to Paris or should she change her life and start living more freely.

Annie was a fantastic main character who was trying to decide how she wanted to live her life. She was also very funny and there are lots of laugh out loud moments in the book. Watching her deciding whether and how to change her well planned life and break out of her shell makes this a fantastic feel good story.

Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.

I enjoyed this book. It has cute quirky characters and a cute quirky story. It reads quickly and I wanted to know how the story turned out. I wasn't a big fan of the reveal of how the plotline between the neighbor and the PI turned out, in fact, I'd say that was kind of a weak point in the story. But I genuinely did not read the story for the plotline, I read the story for the characters, and in that matter, Ms. Pagan always excels (I've read several of her novels, this one is not as good as "I'm Fine and Neither Are You." But if you are looking for a fun, quick read with cute, quirky characters, you'll love this book.

This Won't End Well by Camille Pagan is a novel about finding a new beginning when the familiar has gone by the wayside.. I love a novel that is written in an epistolary format, and I flew through this one as a result.

Annie Mercer has lost her job, her fiance has gone to Paris to find himself before he commits, and her mother is an ongoing concern. Moving into her mother's home in Michigan, Annie is forced to take a hard look at her life, and wonders if the career and love for which she has striven have been worth all the effort and sacrifice. When she takes on a temporary gig of cleaning houses, while giving her fiance the space he needs, Annie finds that sometimes life will unfold in surprising ways.

Camille Pagan is a relatively new author to me and she has certainly added herself to my radar.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for this ARC.

Camille pagan is a master at putting drama and humor together to give readers characters to cheer for. I adore this novel

"Every day really is a gift if we're willing to make it so."
This is definitely a "feel good" story.
Annie has had a run on her bad luck. However, she realizes that she must pull herself back up and continue to put one foot in front of the other. That is exactly what she does. Her own business, some new friends and even a decision with her wedding plans!
I did love the email style of writing and it made the chapters fly by.
Definitely a different book that was enjoyable.

Annie, a dedicated scientist is on the inside looking out. She likes structure. She's also a planner. Change doesn't come easily and people often bring change.

Her carefully planned life suddenly goes askew when her fiance Jon suddenly decides he wants to go to France, without her. And he doesn't want to hear from her while he's away. Now Annie can understand that sometimes you need a bit of space to collect your thoughts, but she's bewildered by the fact that he doesn't want to communicate with her. Faced with a possibility that her relationship is over, she begins to reinvent her life. No more friends. They hurt. But wait ...

Written in alternating chapters of emails, text messages and diary entries, Annie's no-nonsense single mindedness cum sense of dry humour has you smiling as you see her emerge from a one-dimensional character to someone you wouldn't mind having as a friend.

I normally enjoy Camille Pagan's work. However, I'll be honest, I had a hard time getting into THIS WON"T END WELL. The title and premise sound great; the cover is really intriguing. However, I didn't connect with Annie in the opening pages, nor did I care for the epistolary format of the novel. The journal pages worked better for me whereas the emails felt forced and artificial. As I kept reading, I hoped that I would feel more of a connection with Annie. Unfortunately, even as the story progresses, the distance remained. While I understand and appreciate the need for diverse narrators, including those who are quirky (or even on the spectrum), I'm sorry to say Annie fell flat. I cared about what would happen to her, but not as much as I would've liked to be fully engrossed in what is otherwise an entertaining read.

This Won't End Well by Camille Pagan is about Annie who has hit stumbling blocks at work and in her relationships with her fiance and her best friend. Everything is tidily sorted out by the end.

Start to finish, I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It was written in alternating chapters of emails, text messages and diary entries. I have read books in the past entirely formed of emails which were difficult at best to read, but the format in this case enhanced the narrative and provided comic relief in some chapters. Annie, the main character, is not entirely relatable (to me at least). She’s a scientist but starts out entirely too logical (as seen within her relationship with her best friend Leesa) but as she progresses through the book, the growth in her character is interesting to read through. The array of characters and their backstories kept the story going as well. The epilogue was a nice quick wrap up to the story.

Thanks to netgalley for an advanced copy of this book.

So I wasn’t sure I was going to like the time format the chapters were presented in but it kept the story on track. I loved the story itself. Such a finding your happy kinda thing.

Intelligently written, funny, and pulls in the reader. I like that I could relate to the main character and the format was engaging. I really enjoy Camille's books because they make you think about yourself as a whole and the relationships with people around you. Clever title, beautiful cover, and characters that you can relate to make a lovely book that I would enjoy talking about. Camille "gets" it when she writes and that's why I keep going back to her books time and time again.

Although I am an admirer of this author's work, I am not a enthusiast of novels written in epistolary form. The story, as told through a litany of emails and journal entries, was about Annie who had suffered a series of professional and personal setbacks. Her fiancé, of the cold feet variety, flees to Paris and she had to resign from her position as a chemist. Without employment and a bridegroom, she decides to clean houses for a living and avoid 'new' people at all costs. My distinct impression was that Annie was designed to be the female equivalent of Sheldon from the 'Big Bang Theory'. She came across as eccentric and brilliant, just not very likable. Unfortunately, because of the style, I did not get far into this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing, and Camille Pagán for an ARC of 'This Won't End Well' in exchange for an honest and voluntary review.