{"id":15294,"date":"2016-07-26T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=15294"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:33:21","slug":"review-releaseday-cheat-karma-inc-1-by-gillian-zane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=15294","title":{"rendered":"#Review #ReleaseDay &#8211; Cheat (Karma, Inc. #1) by Gillian Zane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51eB6I4lAPL.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cheat (Karma Inc. Book 1) by [Zane, Gillian]\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/synopsis.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/synopsis.png?resize=156%2C54\" alt=\"synopsis\" width=\"156\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"freeText2610255963319417533\">Karma\u2019s a bitch\u2026and her name\u2019s Cassie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Working for Karma Incorporated might sound like the best job in the world, but there\u2019s one really big catch: you\u2019ve got to die to get it. Cassandra Mercer died at the ripe old age of twenty-one and is now gainfully employed by the Afterlife Corporation as a Karma operative. Her job duties include manifesting bad karma on unsuspecting victims.<\/p>\n<p>Two months into her internship Cassie is promoted and given her first solo case. His name is Bishop and he is a cheat. He needs some bad karma, and Cassie\u2019s the right girl for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Inflicting a bit of payback on this cheat should be easy for Cassie, so she gets permission from her boss to do a little investigating on her own time. Investigating into her living life, the one she can\u2019t seem to remember. The only problem, she is forbidden from doing the digging herself. Afterlife Corporation rule. She can hire someone to look into it for her, though, and that someone turns out to be Drake Greco. She regrets her decision the moment she walks into his office\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/TBR.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6166\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/TBR.png?resize=113%2C51\" alt=\"TBR\" width=\"113\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/30725906-cheat?ac=1&amp;from_search=true\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Buy-Links.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Buy-Links.png?resize=158%2C45\" alt=\"Buy Links\" width=\"158\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28SHozs\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angies-review.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angies-review.png?resize=230%2C50\" alt=\"angies review\" width=\"230\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I received this book from the author for an honest review.<\/p>\n<p>I loved Gillian\u2019s zombie series so when I saw she has a new series starting, I jumped.\u00a0 This book is a totally different concept for me and it also intrigued me.\u00a0 I mean working for Karma, Inc. You are the person who will be dishing out the bad karma we all want people to get served\u2026.awesome right???<\/p>\n<p>Cassie wakes up and is given a choice\u2026Limbo or working in the Afterlife.\u00a0 Well who wants Limbo right?\u00a0 She takes the Afterlife job and the sub company, Karma Inc.\u00a0 She is a bit distressed because she can\u2019t remember anything about her life.\u00a0 Now most people can remember their life but not their death.\u00a0 Plus Cassie finds out she was being \u201cprocessed\u201d a lot longer than most people \u2026\u2026hrmmm\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>The story is told in mainly present tense but we do see flashbacks of Cassie getting processed and the parts of her life start to come back to her while she is working her first Karma case.\u00a0 We can see her figuring stuff out while also secretly investigating her life and death.<\/p>\n<p>Now I will say the beginning of the story was a bit slow BUT that is because we are setting up the world Cassie will be a part of.\u00a0 We had to get to know the ins and outs of the Afterlife. SO if you give it a few chapters to get things going the rest of the book flies.\u00a0 The end of the book left me saying YES because I wanted to know what her investigator was going to uncover for her in the next book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/about-the-author.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6153\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/about-the-author.png?resize=231%2C55\" alt=\"about the author\" width=\"231\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gillian Zane is the author of the NOLA Zombie series. Zane is the pen name of a prominent blogger in the publishing industry, which will remain a mystery unless you Google it. Since she can remember her goal has been to become Master of the Universe and has decided to focus first on the literary world. Things are progressing nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Zane has been a freelance writer for the last ten years and has published a few non-fiction works, none of which was very exciting. Zombies are much more exciting and a way for her to combine her two current obsessions, hot boys with guns and Doomsday Prepping. When she isn&#8217;t stockpiling MREs (Meal&#8217;s Ready to Eat) or researching how to build a cistern on a budget, she&#8217;s taking care of her little family and exploring the city that she loves, New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Karma\u2019s a bitch\u2026and her name\u2019s Cassie. Working for Karma Incorporated might sound like the best job in the world, but there\u2019s one really big catch: you\u2019ve got to die to get it. Cassandra Mercer died at the ripe old age of twenty-one and is now gainfully employed by the Afterlife Corporation as a Karma &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=15294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#Review #ReleaseDay &#8211; Cheat (Karma, Inc. #1) by Gillian Zane<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-3YG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}