Oooooh this was really good. I don't usually do serials but decided to give this a shot, had no clue what to expect but i loved it! and that ending???? i'm gonna need to go onto episode two for sure.

Of all the women i think Aditi, Taneesha and Michelle are my faves. I did wish we got more of Taneesha in this episode but perhaps we will in the rest?*fingers crossed*

Each woman's voice is so unique, loved that. loved the different aspects of geekiness they bring to their friendship. I need to know what's going on with Aditi and her hubby hmmm. so intrigued!

WTF and well, Geek Actually, offers a fun cast of characters and an awesome subject that is here and now and just what I love the most! I know I will enjoy every last book in this new series!

I reaaally wanted to like these but they just did not work for me. Too light, too vapid.

Fun, flirty, and a hearty pinch of sexy (it is after all, only one chapter). WTF introduces us to this group of friends, but focuses in more on a few over the others. The starting focus is Michelle and Aditi, editor and writer, with some of Taneesha's workplace issues thrown in as well. The lambasting of certain... movements/entities is unmistakable and both welcome and uncomfortable as the ladies deal with such recognizable geeky issues in a well written way (specifically Gamer Gate, Sad Puppies, and invisibility of women and PoC in particular in tech industries).

Being a huge geek (MMORPGs, heavily into superheroes and comic books) I was thrilled to come across Geek Actually. This particular story is part one in a 13-part serial, that focuses on a group of women who keep in touch via a group chat. There's video game programmer Taneesha, fantasy writer Aditi, cosplay fanatic Ellie and PA Christina. I have only read the first instalment on Netgalley, however WTF is a great first installment to a series by a group of talented writers including Cathy Yardley. This is a great, quick read especially aimed at nerdy ladies like yours truly (which I LOVE - please, more geeky reads!) and I'm looking forward to reading more.

This served as a good introduction for this group of lady geeks. I am definitely intrigued! I am a lady geek myself, so this serial speaks my language!

This was one of those books I randomly stumbled upon on Net Galley and had to read. While it was a short read, I'm still unsure of how I feel about it. On one hand, it's great to see a story focused on so many different types of female characters. However, it also felt like a story that should have been expanded to novel length rather than a serial series

With that said, this first episode did wonderfully capture what it's like for females in geek industries. Having worked as an EIC on a geek site for two years, and now working as a freelance writer on another, I know how difficult it can be to be accepted by males in the industry and the story managed to capture the unpleasant confrontations that tend to happen from time to time. (Seriously, I had plenty of Michelle moments as an editor; and I've had plenty of Aditi moments when it comes to writing.) Where the story fell short for me was in the romance aspect. The relationships were poorly constructed, and lacked any real background to make sense of the events that take place within this first episode.

I do plan to follow the series through though, as it looks to be a fun read, but I'm hoping for more character development going forward so I can actually come to care about these characters.

First installment in a new serial. It was setting up the characters, but it was fun. Super quick read. I am looking forward to getting to know them and how their lives play out.

As soon as I saw this book on Netgalley, I knew I had to read it as I too am a geek and proud of it. I am a book geek, a movie geek and love my superheroes and also am a big fan of what I call Geek Chic Lit. In Geek Actually, we meet four best friends who all one way or another fall into the geek world. We have Michelle who is a book publisher and her OTT geek loving boss Gwen , Aditi who is Michelle's friend and an author with her publishing company , Christina who is Michelle's sister and works as a PA on film sets around Hollywood , Taneesha who works as a Game coder and Elli who is flighty and dreams for cosplay and conventions. In WTF, Elli and Taneesha are going through career changes and Michelle and Aditi butt heads. I found that this book focused more on Elli - now that she has earned enough money for her next convention and cosplay outfit - it's sayonara to the coffee shop. Taneesha's gaming company has just been brought out by a major mogul, and she has been asked to come on board, but of course, it looks like she is there to be a glorified staff member. Michelle and Aditi are going through their trials and tribulations from moving out husbands, cheating and deadlines looming. I found Geek quite a fast read and enjoyable as I could relate to some of what the characters are going through. I am looking forward to reading more of Geek Actually as it is released as currently I only have access to the first three episodes. Geek Actually - perfect for the inner geek in all of us.

I really thought these books would be right up my alley, but I just didn't care for them. Not sure if it was the switching between characters, or the voices in general, but I just couldn't really get into them. I found myself bored.

So up to date with technology. You feel like you are reading someone's Facebook updates.. A fast read that is fresh, clever and fun.

A very quick read without a lot of activity or promise of improvement in the following episodes.

This was a pretty fun little short story, although it's not the kind of thing I usually read. Seriously, I never read anything that isn't straight up scifi/fantasy or at least magical realism, I don't even really have a goodreads shelf to put this on. I loved how real the characters felt, a very diverse cast of women dealing with problems every geeky girl can relate to. I was kind of worried because NetGalley had it under the erotica category, but there is only one sex scene in the last chapter [a few pages long] and you can easily skip past it [I kind of skimmed]. Just make sure you read the very last page-ish after the sex scene. Overall I'm not crazy about the serial publication style but I might try a few more of these.

The descriptions didn't endear this to me. I do not like Sex and the City. I do not, despite being into lots of geeky things, like geek fiction. But this? Is adorable. I loved all of the characters and wish they were real so we could hang out.Sometimes it feels a little issues-y, like the authors had to cram in every hot-button topic currently on Twitter, but to be honest I like a bit of that in my fiction, as that is what I discuss with my friends, so it made the characters seem more real. I'll definitely be reading the rest of the series.

In awe of how perfectly suited this novella fit with my intersectional feminist consciousness, along with exceptional character development and a witty sense of humour, to boot!

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

So, this is an entire new concept to me, the entire serial-deal we've got going on here. In case anyone else is as unfamiliar with the concept as I was, the basic gist is that each instalment is meant to be read in around 40 minutes and with a new instalment released once a week, basically mimicking the duration and schedule of a TV show. So we're returning to the days of old when authors would publish their works in parts over the course of several weeks, but in a 21st century TV-show kinda way.

This is not really the kind of thing I usually read, but I was promised geekery and feminism, and that's all it takes to reel me in these days. These ladies are geeky. And they're badass. Genuinely badass in a very kick-butt-and-take-names kinda way. A more modern, diverse version of SATC, this episode seems to set up storylines of both open relationships and possibly divorce, tackles body image, feminism, fan-culture <i>and</i> bares some claws at misogyny. I'm so here for this.

I heard this first book in an upcoming, ongoing serial (from Serial Box) described to me as a more geeky, modern version of Sex and the City. I think that description hits it directly on the head. While the women in this book seem to be younger than the women in SATC, the characters will be more immediately likeable than the characters of GIRLS (which was often described as a millenial SATC), and more diverse.

As in SATC, the cultural commentary is there, but with a heavier focus on geek culture (Doctor Who! World of Warcraft! Pokemon Go! - it was nice to see many of my hobbies and interests represented) and elements of modern feminism. There is still some romance and commentary on modern relationships (how WOULD SATC write about Tinder, anyway? This serial might show us). While there wasn't quite as much interaction between the four women, this is a shorter read, since it's a first installment of a larger "season" of stories.

In any case, I enjoyed it and enjoyed the format - there was some power packed in there among what could have been written as all fluff, and it works well as a serial. It kind of felt like reading a tv episode, which is what I was looking for. I am interested and want to see where the story goes!

I feel like this was written for me: the jokes, the settings, the characters are all wonderfully geeky in so many different ways. These women are all people I've met before, or, well, they could be!
I'm not used to serialized fiction so it did feel cut short but I certainly have a taste for more.

An extremely short novella about a group of strong, female characters with a nice amount of geek thrown in. I think there are too many characters for the story and did not leave any time to develop characters. Might be best if there was one character per episode with their chat story in the middle.