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.