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Karma Police #4
Deviant
One more day in a body that doesn’t belong to me. Another day further from a life I can’t remember.
I am a Jumper. Waking up in a new body almost every day. A traveler, learning the rules as I go.
I search for answers in every Jump, try to figure out what’s happening to me. Usually, I learn nothing.
But on this Jump I’m hurled into the body of a young girl running for her life—a girl who knows not only that I’m inside her, but exactly who I am.
Now I’m waking in bodies with strange powers, as well as the men and women who are chasing them — members of a secret organization spearheaded by an evil genius who may hold the keys to revealing my past.
But not without a cost.
I am a Jumper. Waking up in a new body almost every day. A traveler, learning the rules as I go.
I search for answers in every Jump, try to figure out what’s happening to me. Usually, I learn nothing.
But on this Jump I’m hurled into the body of a young girl running for her life—a girl who knows not only that I’m inside her, but exactly who I am.
Now I’m waking in bodies with strange powers, as well as the men and women who are chasing them — members of a secret organization spearheaded by an evil genius who may hold the keys to revealing my past.
But not without a cost.
95 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 1, 2017
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About the author
Sean Platt
334 books825 followersSean loves writing books, even more than reading them. He is co-founder of Collective Inkwell and Realm & Sands imprints, writes for children under the name Guy Incognito, and has more than his share of nose.
Together with co-authors David Wright and Johnny B. Truant, Sean has written the series Yesterdays Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, Available Darkness, Dark Crossings, Unicorn Western, The Beam, Namaste, Robot Proletariat, Cursed, Greens, Space Shuttle, and Everyone Gets Divorced. He also co-wrote the how-to indie book, Write. Publish. Repeat.
With Collective Inkwell
Yesterday's Gone: Post Apocalyptic - LOST by way of The Stand
WhiteSpace: Paranoid thriller on fictitious Hamilton Island
ForNevermore: YA horror that reads nothing like YA Horror
Available Darkness: A new breed of vampire thriller
Dark Crossings: Short stories, killer endings
With 47North
Z 2134: The Walking Dead meets The Hunger Games
Monstrous: Beauty and the Beast meets The Punisher
With Realm & Sands
Unicorn Western: The best story to ever come from a stupid idea
The Beam: Smart sci-fi to make you wonder exactly who we are
Namaste: A revenge thriller like nothing you've ever read
Robot Proletariat: The revolution starts here
Cursed: The old werewolf legend turned upside down
Greens: Retail noir comedy
Space Shuttle: Over the top comedy with all your favorite sci-fi characters
Everyone Gets Divorced: Like "Always Sunny" and "How I Met Your Mother" had a baby on your Kindle
Sean lives in Austin, TX with his wife, daughter, and son.
Follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/seanplatt (say hi so he can follow you back!)
Together with co-authors David Wright and Johnny B. Truant, Sean has written the series Yesterdays Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, Available Darkness, Dark Crossings, Unicorn Western, The Beam, Namaste, Robot Proletariat, Cursed, Greens, Space Shuttle, and Everyone Gets Divorced. He also co-wrote the how-to indie book, Write. Publish. Repeat.
With Collective Inkwell
Yesterday's Gone: Post Apocalyptic - LOST by way of The Stand
WhiteSpace: Paranoid thriller on fictitious Hamilton Island
ForNevermore: YA horror that reads nothing like YA Horror
Available Darkness: A new breed of vampire thriller
Dark Crossings: Short stories, killer endings
With 47North
Z 2134: The Walking Dead meets The Hunger Games
Monstrous: Beauty and the Beast meets The Punisher
With Realm & Sands
Unicorn Western: The best story to ever come from a stupid idea
The Beam: Smart sci-fi to make you wonder exactly who we are
Namaste: A revenge thriller like nothing you've ever read
Robot Proletariat: The revolution starts here
Cursed: The old werewolf legend turned upside down
Greens: Retail noir comedy
Space Shuttle: Over the top comedy with all your favorite sci-fi characters
Everyone Gets Divorced: Like "Always Sunny" and "How I Met Your Mother" had a baby on your Kindle
Sean lives in Austin, TX with his wife, daughter, and son.
Follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/seanplatt (say hi so he can follow you back!)
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July 8, 2017
Reviewing this book requires a different approach from that of regular books. “Deviant” is the 4th of 6th serialized parts of the Karma Police series written by Sean Platt and David Wright. Platt & Wright are a writing partnership primarily known for writing and publishing science fiction, paranormal, x-files style stories in a serialized format. Their other series include “White Space”, “Available Darkness”, and their most-biggest and most success, “Yesterday’s Gone”, a post-apocalyptic science fiction invasion adventure. Also, most of their work is primarily found in electronic format. For me, I have all of their books and short stories on my Kindle and have been reading them for several years.
The first three parts of the Karma Police series were published in the early part of 2016, and now over a year later the 4th, 5th, and 6th parts are being published over the next month. Each published part is not really a book, as much as a 90 to 100-page novella length portion of the overall story. “Deviant” picks up the story of a Traveler, who jumps from one body to another in search of who he/she really is. Almost every day this person wakes up in a new body of someone else without any memory of his/her background or identity. While every day is an adventure of being part of someone else’s life, the traveler is being hunted by what appears to be a police team from the future trying to kill him/her.
Not a lot of information has been revealed previously until near the end of the 3rd part. In this part, information starts to be revealed about the traveler’s background and purpose, although it doesn’t mean that what is being told should be believed. The plotting moves forward at breakneck pace, which helps the reader dive right back into the story and get re-acclimated fast. Pratt & Wright have a strong ability to use the serialized format to tell edgy stories with interesting characters. I find reading their stories to be fun and enjoyable. Their biggest weakness is taking too much time between the publishing dates. Most of the time, you have to be patient, like waiting a year since the last part of Karma Police was published. I had to wait a couple of years for them to finish “Yesterday’s Gone”, but when they were done, it was more than worth the wait.
Overall, I recommend this series if you like edgy sci-fi, mystery adventures like the X-Files or Quantum Leap, but I also highly suggest that you wait until all of the parts are published or scheduled to be published in the near future. Unless you are really patient, that may be the best approach to reading these type of serialized stories.
The first three parts of the Karma Police series were published in the early part of 2016, and now over a year later the 4th, 5th, and 6th parts are being published over the next month. Each published part is not really a book, as much as a 90 to 100-page novella length portion of the overall story. “Deviant” picks up the story of a Traveler, who jumps from one body to another in search of who he/she really is. Almost every day this person wakes up in a new body of someone else without any memory of his/her background or identity. While every day is an adventure of being part of someone else’s life, the traveler is being hunted by what appears to be a police team from the future trying to kill him/her.
Not a lot of information has been revealed previously until near the end of the 3rd part. In this part, information starts to be revealed about the traveler’s background and purpose, although it doesn’t mean that what is being told should be believed. The plotting moves forward at breakneck pace, which helps the reader dive right back into the story and get re-acclimated fast. Pratt & Wright have a strong ability to use the serialized format to tell edgy stories with interesting characters. I find reading their stories to be fun and enjoyable. Their biggest weakness is taking too much time between the publishing dates. Most of the time, you have to be patient, like waiting a year since the last part of Karma Police was published. I had to wait a couple of years for them to finish “Yesterday’s Gone”, but when they were done, it was more than worth the wait.
Overall, I recommend this series if you like edgy sci-fi, mystery adventures like the X-Files or Quantum Leap, but I also highly suggest that you wait until all of the parts are published or scheduled to be published in the near future. Unless you are really patient, that may be the best approach to reading these type of serialized stories.
July 10, 2017
A Home Run
I confess that I started Deviant, book four of The Karma Police series, with some apprehension. My confidence in the Platt/ Wright/ Truant triumvirate was shaken after the back-to-back stinkers Dead City (indecipherable) and Cursed (a sad vanity exercise).
To my relief, though, reading Deviant was like slipping on an old, comfortable pair of boots I'd forgotten in the back of the closet. David Wright's prose is crisp and clear, sparse yet ebullient. When David is hitting on all eight cylinders, as he has for the entirety of the Karma Police series, he never gives the reader an unnecessary word but still paints a vivid story.
The first three Karma Police books raise more questions than they answer. Not so with Deviant. The plot line races forward, filling in a lot of the blanks from previous books, creating new questions of its own, and dropping several bombshells. It zigs and zags, and zigs again, but doesn't leave the reader feeling frustrated. The authors introduce a truly detestable villain, and do a wonderful job plumbing the emotions of being over your head in a situation you just don't understand.
Just when you think you everything is going to be revealed Deviant zags one last time, setting up the series finale in a masterful way. Bottom line- Deviant is a great story wonderfully told.
I confess that I started Deviant, book four of The Karma Police series, with some apprehension. My confidence in the Platt/ Wright/ Truant triumvirate was shaken after the back-to-back stinkers Dead City (indecipherable) and Cursed (a sad vanity exercise).
To my relief, though, reading Deviant was like slipping on an old, comfortable pair of boots I'd forgotten in the back of the closet. David Wright's prose is crisp and clear, sparse yet ebullient. When David is hitting on all eight cylinders, as he has for the entirety of the Karma Police series, he never gives the reader an unnecessary word but still paints a vivid story.
The first three Karma Police books raise more questions than they answer. Not so with Deviant. The plot line races forward, filling in a lot of the blanks from previous books, creating new questions of its own, and dropping several bombshells. It zigs and zags, and zigs again, but doesn't leave the reader feeling frustrated. The authors introduce a truly detestable villain, and do a wonderful job plumbing the emotions of being over your head in a situation you just don't understand.
Just when you think you everything is going to be revealed Deviant zags one last time, setting up the series finale in a masterful way. Bottom line- Deviant is a great story wonderfully told.
July 13, 2017
Collective Inkwell at their best, this story takes the already very good Karma Police series to a whole new level! Can't wait to see Ella's mystery unfold.
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