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    The Younger Gods

    By Michael R. Underwood

    3.5/5

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    The first in a new series from the author of Geekomancy (pop culture urban fantasy) and Shield and Crocus (New Weird superhero fantasy).

    Jacob Greene was a sweet boy raised by a loving, tight-knit family…of cultists. He always obeyed, and was so trusted by them that he was the one they sent out on their monthly supply run (food, medicine, pig fetuses, etc.).

    Finding himself betrayed by them, he flees the family’s sequestered compound and enters the true unknown: college in New York City. It’s a very foreign place, the normal world and St. Mark’s University. But Jacob’s looking for a purpose in life, a way to understand people, and a future that breaks from his less-than-perfect past. However, when his estranged sister arrives in town to kick off the apocalypse, Jacob realizes that if he doesn’t gather allies and stop the family’s prophecy of destruction from coming true, nobody else will…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Star
    Release dateOct 13, 2014
    ISBN9781476757797
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    The Younger Gods
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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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    • 2/5
      Jacob Greene came from a cult. He escaped and his trying to make a new life for himself at St. Mark's University. So far Jacob is learning it is harder to make friends than it was living in a cult. Jacob hears on the news of a murder. The body was surrounded by a circle that was burned with ashes. The murder can mean only one thing...Jacob's family has found him. Jacob knows that the murder is just the beginning. It is a ritual to being doom to the Earth. I had issues with this book. At times it read like the author did not think the readers (me) would get the concept of the story, so he would write things out sometimes repeating. Then at other times he did not explain enough and it felt like he was just rushing through the story. Another problem I had is that I wanted the characters to be more engaging. I found them to be uninteresting and not so likeable. Like I did not really felt like Jake was all that interested or cared about sharing people. He was his persona. He came off stiff and a little cold. I did understand his reservation with people and making friends due to his one and only friend being killed by his family. Yet, I wanted him to be more warm and inviting. Despite all of this I did find myself skimming parts after a while. The cult rituals and other magical elements in the book were not bad. I did see some promise of a good book.
    • 2/5
      The Younger Gods sounds fun, but it ended up not really pulling ahead of everything else I've read that's even a little bit like it. Somehow the assembling team, the plot, it all lacked anything that really made me care -- there should've been at least a sense of urgency, and more feelings from the main character about what exactly was happening, but I felt like it was just going through the motions.

      This is the first of Underwood's books I've read, and I'm pretty disappointed; some of his ideas sound really cool. And this had, you know, nephilim and werewolves and all sorts, all stirred into the pot. But nope, it just came out as mediocre -- for me, at any rate.
    • 5/5
      Michael Underwood has accomplished something terribly difficult in the genre of YA Urban Fantasy: He has created an entirely new fictional world that is not a retread of familiar supernatural tropes, and has introduced a teen character that does not speak in slang. Jacob Hicks/Greene has escaped his family of evil sorcerers by enrolling in a New York City college. Unfortunately his sister has followed him and begins wreaking havoc, death and destruction across the city as she attempts to awaken one of the Younger Gods and bring her brother back into the fold. Jake is joined by some very heterogeneous and fascinating sidekicks in his fight against his sister who all have magical backgrounds and powers to lend to the fight. Jake is quite an erudite young man and, having been homeschooled in a very abusive but strongly formal environment, he speaks in a cadence which recalls literature of the early 1900's instead of the dialect that youngsters speak today. He is also quite unaware of most popular culture references which serves to add quite a bit of humor to the book.The plotting is suspenseful, with very little buildup and the majority of the book devoted to the group of allies chasing Jake's sister, Esther, around the city and trying to defeat her. The eventual climax is riveting and sets up well the next volume in this series. The tale is also devoid of the near mandatory love triangle, having not even an element of romance to distract from the task at hand. Romance would not be necessary, although, I wonder if this is because the lead character is a young male instead of a young female. I cannot express enough how impressed and fascinated I was with this book. I recommend it to all fans of the Urban Fantasy genre who are tired of the common supernatural tropes (vampires, werewolves, zombies and witches) that are so ubiquitous.
    • 3/5
      Jacob, former cult member, decides he's had enough with his family's evil practices and their betrayal of him and takes off to college. Now he's the bad child, in hiding from his family, and his evil sister, the good child, finds him and wants to bring him back into the family fold or kill him. Either one. Even though all Jacob wants is to live a normal life, without regular sacrifices to elder gods, he knows if he doesn't save the world no one will.

      Jacob's a pretty weird kid, as you'd expect from someone who was raised in a cult of elder gods. But he's likeable, and he's the hero we have even if he's not the hero we need, so he'll do. (Provided by publisher)