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    Attack the Geek: A Ree Reyes Side-Quest

    By Michael R. Underwood

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    A side-quest novella in the bestselling Geekomancy urban fantasy series—when D&D-style adventures go from the tabletop to real life, look out!

    Ree Reyes, urban fantasista and Geekomancer extraordinaire, is working her regular drink-slinger shift at Grognard’s bar-and-gaming salon when everything goes wrong. The assorted magic wielders of the city’s underground have come to test their battle skills via RPGs like D&D, V:TES, White Wolf, and the like. All the usuals are there: her ex-mentor Eastwood, Drake (the man-out-of-time adventurer), and, of course, Grognard himself (her boss and a brewer of beer that act as magic potions). However, it’s the presence of these and other “usuals” that makes all the trouble. For, a nemesis from Eastwood and Ree’s past decides to finally take her revenge not just on those two, but on every self-styled “hero” in the city who happens to have crossed her at one point or another. When wave after wave of monsters besiege Grogrnard’s store, if Ree & Co. are going to survive, they’re going to have to work together. And avoid the minotaur. That’s always a good rule of thumb.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Star
    Release dateApr 7, 2014
    ISBN9781476757780
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    Attack the Geek: A Ree Reyes Side-Quest
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    Michael R. Underwood

    While Michael Underwood was born in Bloomington, Indiana, he’s made his home everywhere from New York to Oregon and Texas to Brooklyn. Currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland, Michael considers himself a lifelong gamer and geek and also a huge sci-fi fan. He attributes this to working in a game store while in his teens. Michael graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana University in 2005, where he received a bachelor of arts in creative mythology. He holds a master of arts in folklore studies from the University of Oregon, where he wrote his thesis on tabletop role-playing games. Michael’s passion has always been in teaching, and he has taken any opportunity he can to share his skills with others. He’s so far held classes for everything from web design to the tango and, of course, writing. He attributes his passion for public speaking and theatricality to his parents, who met while performing musical theater together. Michael combines his love of teaching and passion for performance across disciplines, from historical fencing to headlining an Argentine tango band. He is the author of Geekomancy, Celebromancy, and Shield and Crocus.

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    • 4/5
      Very fun, action-packed continuation of the characters from GEEKOMANCY and CELEBROMANCY. Also an excellent set-up of a few plots and potentials for the next Ree Reyes novel.

      I would recommend reading GEEKOMANCY before you read this, or you'll be missing very crucial underpinnings of this novella's twists and plot points.

      Far more action-packed than I was expecting, but in a good way that helped add rather than subtract anything from characters.
    • 4/5
      3.5/5 stars. A very cute, stand-alone, Ree Reyes adventure that sets up for bigger things to come in Ree's world.

      If you haven't read any of the Ree Reyes books (Geekomancy, Celebromancy), you could easily start with this novella and get a very good grasp of Ree's universe and how magic works there, and of the people she's surrounded by.

      Fun stuff. I really enjoyed it.

      (I think there ought to be a new name for the genre of these books and Jim Hines' Libriomancer series. Nerdpunk? Geekpunk? Fanpunk?)

      (Provided by publisher)
    • 2/5
      I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for this review. Since I reviewed an uncorrected proof, I won't comment on the formatting. I assume this will be fixed later on. My review is based solely on the content of the book. I thought this book was confusing. It was an interesting premise, that items like D&D, Magic Cards, and other fictional game items could come to life. I've read enough fantasy/YA/sci-fi novels not to question the basic premise of the novel. The execution of the story, though was confusing. At the beginning, some of the characters were given power ratings, just like role-playing games. However, this didn't seem to come into play in the rest of the novel. Point of view kept switching for no reason from one person to another. There were some interesting plot twists, but I kept scratching my head wondering why something happened, or who this was. This is apparently part of a series, so maybe some of it will be explained later. I thought the novel could have been improved by making it a 1st person novel, told from Rae's perspective, who is apparently the central character in the novel. Otherwise, I couldn't recommend it.
    • 1/5
      Games have progress but no plot. Game heroes do not have character, they have rules. Game heroes develop skills but not depth. Books written by gamers impersonate games, not literature."Attack the Geek" is one attack on one bar on one evening in one long take. We are given a few paragraphs of "what has come before" at the beginning and a jolting change-of-pace setup for the follow-on book at the end. In between, a half-dozen people use their geekomancy (the ability to draw arcane powers from art) to zap hordes of gnomes etc. who are trying to get in the door. That's it. Page after page after page. The fun of trying to identify the pop culture refs wears off pretty quickly.This series will appeal only to a small subgroup of urban fantasy readers and I am not a member of that group.The cover artist did not read the book. Rees should be dressed all in black for working in the bar.It is clear that Mr. Underwood does not know Elric.I received an advance review copy of "Attack the Geek" by Michael R. Underwood (Pocket Star Kindle Edition) through NetGalley.com.
    • 4/5
      I received an early reviewer ebook through the publisher via NetGalley.This novelette takes place in the same world as Underwood's previous novels, Geekomancy and Celebromancy. He offers a cool, fresh take on urban fantasy where fandom means power. Geekomancers pull magic from pop culture--watch an episode of BBC's Sherlock, and for a brief time, you see as Sherlock. Others can tear a Magic: the Gathering Card and absorb that skill. Ree Reyes is still new at this geekomancer gig but she's survived many unsurvivable scrapes so far.The pacing on this is both delightful and exhausting. The whole thing is really one big battle sequence. There's a lot of humor mixed in, and many, many references to culture, but for the most part it's a marathon of near-death experiences. This means it's a fast read. Ree uses her skills and know-how to scrape through, but it's not about developing her character arc. I did miss that. That said, it's still a fun book and a total geek-out thriller.
    • 4/5
      Want A wild ride on the geek side ? Here it is, comics, card games, movies, steampunk and all their powers and weapons. I was a happy giggling fangirl at all the pop culture references. A fun spirited magical read.
      This was my first look at the series I did not realize it was not the first book. I was a bit lost in the beginning and nearly quit but a light saber pulled me back and I started ti really enjoy the ride. What to do when the bar you are attacked at work,Grognard's Grog and Games by sewer gnomes ? Pull out all the magic you can get from anywhere you can and run.
      I plan on getting the first books in this fun series to find out what I missed.