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Geekomancy (Ree Reyes Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Michael R. Underwood (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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"Geekomancy is a glorious blender of genres, like a sweet candy shell filled with pop culture and high heroism. Absolutely stellar." - Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye and Wayward Children series

Ree Reyes’s life was easier when all she had to worry about was scraping together tips from her gig as a barista and comic shop minion to pursue her ambitions as a screenwriter.

When a scruffy-looking guy storms into the shop looking for a comic like his life depends on it, Ree writes it off as just another day in the land of the geeks. Until a gigantic “BOOM!” echoes from the alley a minute later, and Ree follows the rabbit hole down into her town’s magical flip-side. Here, astral cowboy hackers fight trolls, rubber-suited werewolves, and elegant Gothic Lolita witches while wielding nostalgia-powered props.

Ree joins Eastwood (aka Scruffy Guy), investigating a mysterious string of teen suicides as she tries to recover from her own drag-your-heart-through-jagged-glass breakup. But as she digs deeper, Ree discovers Eastwood may not be the knight-in-cardboard armor she thought. Will Ree be able to stop the suicides, save Eastwood from himself, and somehow keep her job?

2nd edition - 2022

Book 1 of the completed Ree Reyes series.

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"Geekomancy is a glorious blender of genres, like a sweet candy shell filled with pop culture and high heroism. Absolutely stellar."
- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye and Wayward Children series

"Magic in geekery, mysticism in celebrities, the Ree Reyes series by Mike Underwood is a celebration of everything that makes being a geek cool. Can't wait to read what he has in store next." -Stephen Blackmoore, author of Dead Things

"If Buffy hooked up with Doctor Who while on board the Serenity, this book would be their lovechild. In other words, Geekomancy is full of epic win."
- Marie Lu, author of the Legend trilogy

"If you took wish-fulfillment, ground it into a powder, and shot twice the recommended dosage into your eye socket, the result would look a lot like Geekomancy. I want to live in this world, where all the books and shows and movies and games I love are a source of power, not only in psychological terms, — which they already are — but practical, villain-pounding ones."
- Marie Brennan, award winning author of A Natural History of Dragons

"Modern, sleek, and whip-smart, Geekomancy is a wonderful blend of geek and pop culture — you'll find yourself grinning knowingly at least every other page. And Ree is the perfect protagonist to navigate Geekomancy's world — geek enough to hold her own, yet human enough for me to be deeply invested in her struggles. I can't wait to read the next one!"
- Cassie Alexander, author of Nightshifted

"Underwood's Geek Fu is strong-and he's not afraid to use it. Geekomancy is fun, fresh and full of geek culture references that will have you LOLing to the very last page. This book is one hundred percent pure awesomesauce and totally FTW."
- Mari Mancusi, award winning author of The Blood Coven Vampire series

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This is the first book in the Ree Reyes Geekomancy series, where love of SF/F, comics, and video games is a magic system. Join Ree as she discovers the weird and wonderful magical sub-cultures of her city and uses her geekdom to save lives and fight monsters of all sorts.

A great read for fans of Ready Player One, Libriomancer, Buffy, and Clerks.

Ree Reyes Series order:#1 - Geekomancy - amzn.com/B007SNRRP8#2 - Celebromancy - amzn.com/B00B3VGPXG#3 - Attack the Geek - amzn.com/B00DPM7QCA#4 - Hexomancy - amzn.com/B00P4349E6

For information about the Ree Reyes series and more, sign up for Mike's readers's list at the link below. Thank you, and geek on! tinyurl.com/mikerunderwood

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09YRPZFN4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gray Fox Literary; 2nd edition (June 7, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4006 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages

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Mike grew up reading comics, playing games, and trying to figure out how to make being a geek into a job. Now he's living the dream telling stories for a living.

Mike's books are known for their fun action/adventure vibes with inclusive casting and inventive worldbuilding. He is the author of over a dozen books, including found-family space opera ANNIHILATION ARIA, the Ree Reyes Geekomancy series (GEEKOMANCY, CELEBROMANCY, ATTACK THE GEEK, HEXOMANCY), collaboratively-written epic fantasy serial BORN TO THE BLADE, and the r/Fantasy "Stabby" Award-finalist GENRENAUTS series.

Mike is a game designer on the forthcoming Daggerheart RPG and is working on a ttrpg based on Generenauts.

Mike has been a game store clerk, a bookseller/barista, a sales representative, and the North American Sales & Marketing Manager for Angry Robot Books. Mike lives in Baltimore with his wife, their dog, and an ever-growing library.

Previously, Mike was a co-host of actual play show Speculate and a guest host on the Hugo Award-finalist The Skiffy and Fanty Show.

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P. J. O'Leary

A Modern Fairytale For Geeks

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2012

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Okay, when I bought this, it was mostly because it's on sale and I'm a broke geek. I was even a bit concerned it was going to descend into the wrong side of fanfic. But I ended up really enjoying it.

Ree, the main character, is a near-perfect geek heroine: cute, but doesn't really see it; smart, deeply geeky, but seriously snarky and self-deprecating. She was fun and interesting enough to spend an entire novel with. In fact, I'm looking forward to reading more of her.

I also enjoyed the magical system for the book, the eponymous geekomancy. Apparently, it is fed by the person's passion for the subject, so there are a wide variety of styles, including Furrymancers and Bromancers (needs to be seen to be believed). Some of the details might have used more fleshing out, but since Ree is as new to all this as the reader, it doesn't feel like the writer is confused or holding out on the reader. Ree is still struggling to figure things out herself.

As a geek myself, I'll admit there was one reference in the book I didn't get. But it turned out to be song lyrics from some little kids' show that never played anywhere I lived, so I'm okay with that. The rest of the references, however, were well done, both accurate and appropriate to the flow of the story. It didn't feel like someone trying to toss in some random movie quotes or gaming references just to sound geeky (seen that before, too many times. very painful). So the book maintains it's geek-cred.

On the downside, the two big twists weren't that much of a surprise. Especially with the second one, the author was a bit too anvilicious with the hints earlier. I'll keep it vague here, because I'm not into dropping spoilers in a review. But I wish the author had dialed it back a bit and trusted the reader more. Of course YMMV.

So to sum up, a good first novel. Solid writing, interesting characters, and a cool premise with Buffy-worthy banter and descriptions that help bring the setting to life. A bit rough around the edges, but for a first novel, it promises very good things to come from this author.

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Great story for all of us geeks, nerds and mega-fans!

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2012

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This was a great book, fun and exciting and also very well edited. I felt the characters were realistic and the dialog was natural and not forced, a rarity in this age of self-publication! The story was fun and really appealed to me since I'm a fan-girl of all things comic book and science fiction. It has some interesting and new ideas I've never read before which was a nice surprise.
My only issue with this book is the odd way the lead character loses her job at the end, I don't want to spoil it for anyone but I will say that the lack of gratitude her boss feels for her after she misses a few shifts to do him a HUGE favor is strange and doesn't seem to flow with the story. It was awkwardly put in to push the story where the author want it to go. But since that's my only problem with it, it's still a great book and well worth the money!
I am looking forward to the next book in the series!

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2014

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Let me be clear right up front, I really wanted to like this book.

The idea of deriving magical power from genre props, movies, books, comics and basically a love of all things geek is a wonderful bit of wish fulfillment for many a no-longer-young geek like me. Brilliant idea from author Michael R. Underwood, further expanded into greater brilliance when one of the characters casually tosses off that, in addition to geekomancy (getting magic from geek-friendly stuff), there's celebromancy, furryomancy (no, just no) and other odd sources of magical power.

Mr. Underwood further makes another good choice when he has as hero of the story Ree Reyes, a geek girl and every geek's dream girl. Which is where he makes his first misstep. Ms. Reyes is too-perfect of a geek girl. She wears glasses and loves every single thing geek, from tabletop role playing games to genre prose novels. She watches Doctor Who and can recite chapter and verse from Sherlock Holmes. She even works in a comic-book store. It's as if Mr. Underwood decided to take everything that could attract geeks and then pack them all into one character.

When she's not trying so hard to establish her geekofides, Ms. Reyes is a well-spoken character who is enjoyable enough to continue reading about. It's only once she stumbles onto her first geekomancer, who goes by the name of Eastwood, that the book completely ran off the monorail to me.

See, Ms. Reyes (and apparently Eastwood) is able to power up with the magical hoodoo not by some arcane ritual, but from watching Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC's version of Sherlock. All she has to do is watch the show and concentrate. Subsequently, she's blessed with a tremendous intellect, astonishing powers of observation and actual pop-up text boxes pointing out important bits.

And this is where I stumbled, fell and lost interest. If that's all it took to get magic powers, why hadn't Ms. Reyes been empowered long ago. She's the ultimate geek girl and would have watched a metric ton of genre shows, read a forest's worth of books and comics, seen the plays, played the games. So why didn't she (not to mention the approximately thousand other geeks within a ten-mile radius) get powered up before then?

As far as I could see, it wasn't really explained. Just hand waved at.

I know it seems odd that I'm willing to suspend my disbelief and go with the idea of gaining magical powers from being a geek, but the details about why so few are similarly empowered bumps me out of the narrative. Just the way it worked.

In the parts that I finished, I thought Mr. Underwood brought a nice sense of prose to the narrative, although the timing could have used some work. The dialogue was, appropriately enough, snappy and full of enough pop-culture references to slow down a DeLorean DMC-12 . (see what I did there?)

Geekomancy was a good attempt, but not quite there yet. I'm confident, however, that Mr. Underwood has made improvements in the subsequent Ree Reyes books, so I will be looking for those to see if I'm right.

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Ken

A lot of Geek fun if you can handle it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2012

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"If Buffy hooked up with Doctor Who while on board the Serenity, this book would be their lovechild. In other words, GEEKOMANCY is full of epic win." - Marie Lu, author of Legend series. Honestly with that kind of endorsement, can any geek pass on this book?

Well Geekomancy is definitely a book written by a geek for geeks. It is a fun and entertaining story that combines what we love most about popular culture with a light-hearted mystery. I'm sure all geeks would love to have Ree's power in the story, which is Genre Emulation. With Genre Emulation, Ree gains power by watching TV shows and movies and the more she identifies with the characters the stronger her power gets.

From a geek's point of view, I love the little references and mentions littered throughout the book and the sudden aha moments that you get when you recognise where that line comes from. I also love the creativity and the way Underwood blends the source materials together in the story.

However from a reader's point of view, the constant barrage of irrelevant references is distracting and feels like they are there simply to gain geek cred rather than to move the story along. To me the references feel forced, unlike in Ready Player One, where it happens naturally and all mentions to things like Dungeons and Dragons, WarGames and Joust are all necessary because they are integral parts of the story.

Since Ree's case has a supernatural element to it, I thought a show such as Supernatural would fit perfectly as who can understand situation like this better than the hunters Sam and Dean Winchester? Instead the show was mentioned in a throwaway line and we see Ree stumble along with a bunch of fun but not terribly useful abilities.

I like magic systems with some type of rule, otherwise you can create any solution that you see fit in the story. And in some ways the magic in Geekomancy feels just like that. There are powerful magic artifacts just because they are somehow related to Popular Culture and there is magic for anything under the SFF sun, there's even one that draws power from Bromance... Yeah it's fun to read but the Geekomancy world just feels too chaotic and shallow to me.

To put it simply, if you are a geek then you will like this book because of the big fan service it provides. The story is a little uneven at times and even with the flaws I mentioned, the overall story has kept me entertained. It might not be the best thing that's ever happened in the Geekdom but I'll definitely recommended it to any geek that is looking for a light humourous read.

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Carina S

Das perfekte Buch für jeden Geek. Einfach nur genial!

Reviewed in Germany on July 17, 2012

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Geekomancy ist ganz eindeutig eines der Bücher, bei denen man sich den Spruch 'Don't judge a book by its cover' ganz stark zu Herzen nehmen sollte. Als ich das Buch nämlich zum ersten Mal auf GR gesehen hatte, war ich zwar durch den Titel direkt neugierig, das Cover hat mich dann aber sogar davon abgehalten die Inhaltsangabe zu lesen. Ein Fehler wie sich später raus gestellt hat. Gott sei Dank hat die Autorin Marie Lu (Legend) am Tag der Veröffentlichung schwer davon geschwärmt, so dass ich dann nochmal nachgeguckt und nach dem Lesen des Inhalts dann auch gleich auf den Kindle bestellt und direkt angefangen zu lesen habe.

Als ich anfing Geekomancy zu lesen, hatte ich mich auf ein paar Referenzen auf die typischen Dinge gemacht, die man sonst so in Verbindung mit Geeks zu lesen bekommt, so wie zum Beispiel Star Wars. Aber was dann hier in diesem Buch plötzlich abgeht, hat mich wirklich komplett vom Hocker gerissen. Man wird mit Referenzen geradezu bombardiert. Auf jeder einzelnen Seite wird irgendwas erwähnt. Sei es weil Ree sich gerade Sherlock Holmes mit Mr. Awesome himself Benedict Cumberbatch anguckt (ja, er wird tatsächlich erwähnt. Spätestens da war ich in das Buch verliebt), oder auch nur eher simple Dinge wie 'er trägt ein Pokémon T-Shirt'. Aber nicht nur solche Sachen gibt es, sondern es gibt auch noch die eher versteckten Dinge, für die man schon wirklich Geek sein muss, um sie überhaupt alle mitzubekommen. So werden zum Beispiel nur Namen irgendwelcher Figuren erwähnt, statt des Filmes, aus dem sie sind, oder irgendwelche Sprüche zitiert.

Um mal den Eindruck zu bekommen, wie weit Michael Underwood es mit seinen Anspielungen treibt, hier mal die unterschiedlichsten Beispiele: Tim Burton, Nintendo, Alice im Wunderland, Doctor Who, Yu-Gi-Oh, Marvel Figuren, Harry Potter. Ich glaube ich könnte hier noch seitenlang die ganzen Dinge/Filme/Serien/Comic-Figuren/Spiele/' aufzählen und allein das sollte schon reichen, um zu zeigen, wie genial dieses Buch ist.

Diese Masse ist auch ganz klar ein Grund dafür, dass ich das Buch in nicht allzu weiter Ferne nochmal lesen werde, weil ich mir ziemlich sicher bin, dass ich so einige Kleinigkeiten überlesen habe, einfach weil es so viele davon gab.
Zusätzlich hab ich dann jetzt wieder Lust Buffy nochmal von vorne bis hinten zu gucken, die alte Nintendo 64 wieder auszupacken und vieles mehr, weil das Buch einen ganz schön in Erinnerungen schwelgen lässt und einem wieder Lust auf diese Dinge macht.

Aber nicht nur das ist so toll an diesem Buch, sondern auch die ganze Geschichte die diese Dinge zusammen bringt. Sie ist spannend, lustig und vor allem anders. Der Ausgangsort, ein Comicladen, ist ja schon perfekt für diese Geschichte, aber auch die weiteren Orte die man hier so besucht, halten so einige interessante Dinge und vor allem auch Personen bereit.
Ich war richtig überrascht, wie durchdacht die ganze Geschichte ist. Plötzlich ergeben sich jede Menge Zusammenhänge zwischen verschiedenen Dingen, die man so überhaupt nicht erwartet hätte. Diese Story wartet also zusätzlich noch mit so einigen Überraschungen auf, was die Handlung selbst angeht.

Hier geht es richtig rund, man kommt gar nicht dazu sich mal auszuruhen weil hier so viel auf einen einfällt, so dass man auch ein ziemlich gutes Gefühl dafür bekommt, wie es Ree so ergeht, die diese ganzen Erlebnisse erst einmal verarbeiten muss.
Ree ist außerdem ein Charakter ganz nach meinem Geschmack. Sie ist schlagkräftig und mit ihren knallharten Sprüchen einfach unheimlich sympathisch und witzig.

Michael Underwood hat mit dieser Geschichte ein Sammelsurium von Dingen geschaffen, das jedes Geek-Herz schneller schlagen lässt. In dieser Geschichte fühlt man sich als Geek wie zu Hause. Hinzu kommt dann noch eine sowohl witzige als auch spannende Geschichte, die ein paar richtig tolle Charaktere und eine Welt enthält, aus der man so schnell nicht mehr auftauchen will.

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Nikki Tysoe

I want to be Ree Reyes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2016

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I was a little dubious going into this, but I'd bought it on the recommendation of a friend who knows my tastes.. And I am so glad for that recommendation. This book introduces us to Ree Reyes, and introduces Ree Reyes to the wold of Geekomancy.

It's a deeply, wonderfully nerdy book with adventure and laughs. I've gobbled up every Ree Reyes book as they've come out since.

Michael R Underwood seems to know exactly what I want in a book.. being a geeky working Mum with two small sons I don't have the brain power for deep books requiring marathons of concentration. He delivers me fun, adventure and laughs outside the normal genres that seem to be on offer.

Read his books!! Support him to write more for me!

Vicious Pixie

I vote now...before the avalanche falls~

Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2014

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Geekomancy is a work of ridiculous fun.

For anyone that enjoys Sci Fi, Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Steampunk and anything otherworldly all meshed in with our day to day reality, this is your mug of java.
It has humor, snappy dialogue and lots of kicking of the posterior.

It's a refreshing work to surface for kindle download and I thoroughly enjoyed my read, so much so that I am going to go and get the sequel (Celebromancy).
If you're looking for something new in the world of Sci Fi and Fantasy crossbreeding this is definitely for you.

I give it 5 stars of Awesome simply because it is.

Mr. Underwood keep creating and if I have to send you more coffee beans for your espresso machine to keep you sufficiently wired send me your address!

Miranda016

Fun, but not my thing

Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2014

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Geekomancy was definitely a fun read. I liked the concept of being able to gain power through popular culture, and I think that Underwood did a great job of setting that up and representing it in his novel. I just found that there were too many references and inside jokes - for lack of a better term - that I didn't know enough about to fully appreciate.

So, all in all, I would definitely recommend this novel to someone who I believe would fully understand the references, but I don't know that it's a novel I would recommend to everyone.

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