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Momenteering: The Misadventures of Living Other People's Moments
'Being John Malkovich' meets a lonely Orwellian job.
Can he save this kid?
It's going to be tricky...
Will you help?
[Mature Readership ONLY. Please see Content Warning below]
An Unlikely Job/Hero/Bond
Working with an extremely classified technology, socially awkward Komo blinks into other people’s minds and bodies to live out experiences that clients have voluntarily chosen to avoid.
Moral Dilemmas
When Komo believes a client is harming their child, he sinks into a tangle with his past and controlling company ... this, mixed with his loneliness, messy love life and games of avoiding his strange neighbour—will he manage to go rogue and save the kid? Who knows, maybe even YOU can help, if you complete your training.
Meta & Unique
In a down-to-earth and meta style, the narrative unfolds through first, second and third-person perspectives. Involving the reader in the action yet objectively revealing the awkward, evil, kind and peculiar sides to personalities.
Like all fantastic sci-fi, the novel delves beyond its high-tech genre and ventures deeper into the intricate tapestry of flawed characters and their strange relationships. An ideal read for those who enjoy quirky offbeat books that by the end leave one considering identity, morality and humanity like all great literary fiction should.
Strap yourself in and "prepare to feel the whole spectrum of emotion." as SNACK Magazine described.
[Content Warning]
This novel is for a mature readership.
Trigger warning: Although there are no direct scenes, the plot is driven by the sensitive topic of child abuse. (This daring novel also has brief references to illegal drug use and suicide.)
Can he save this kid?
It's going to be tricky...
Will you help?
[Mature Readership ONLY. Please see Content Warning below]
An Unlikely Job/Hero/Bond
Working with an extremely classified technology, socially awkward Komo blinks into other people’s minds and bodies to live out experiences that clients have voluntarily chosen to avoid.
Moral Dilemmas
When Komo believes a client is harming their child, he sinks into a tangle with his past and controlling company ... this, mixed with his loneliness, messy love life and games of avoiding his strange neighbour—will he manage to go rogue and save the kid? Who knows, maybe even YOU can help, if you complete your training.
Meta & Unique
In a down-to-earth and meta style, the narrative unfolds through first, second and third-person perspectives. Involving the reader in the action yet objectively revealing the awkward, evil, kind and peculiar sides to personalities.
Like all fantastic sci-fi, the novel delves beyond its high-tech genre and ventures deeper into the intricate tapestry of flawed characters and their strange relationships. An ideal read for those who enjoy quirky offbeat books that by the end leave one considering identity, morality and humanity like all great literary fiction should.
Strap yourself in and "prepare to feel the whole spectrum of emotion." as SNACK Magazine described.
[Content Warning]
This novel is for a mature readership.
Trigger warning: Although there are no direct scenes, the plot is driven by the sensitive topic of child abuse. (This daring novel also has brief references to illegal drug use and suicide.)
- GenresFictionScience Fiction
279 pages, Hardcover
First published October 25, 2022
7 people are currently reading
80 people want to read
About the author
Craig Jonathan Reekie
2 books3 followersCraig Jonathan Reekie is a visually impaired writer born in Fife, Scotland. He lost his sight due to diabetic retinopathy and uses accessibility features to write.
His fiction is metamodern, existential, offbeat and darkly humorous. With comparisons to Black Mirror and Ray Bradbury, his debut novel Momenteering is a daring and unique twist on modern sci-fi and literary fiction.
He is currently working on short stories as well as a second novel.
His fiction is metamodern, existential, offbeat and darkly humorous. With comparisons to Black Mirror and Ray Bradbury, his debut novel Momenteering is a daring and unique twist on modern sci-fi and literary fiction.
He is currently working on short stories as well as a second novel.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
April 2, 2025
Not just a brilliant premise, but brilliantly executed too!
It's a little like Severance, people who can afford to 'outsource' moments in their life they don't want to experience to a momenteer, kind of like a call centre worker - but rather than listening to the general public whinge ad infinitum, they live out their funerals, awkward conversations, terrible sex, etc.
The main character, Komo, ends up momenteering and sees something he shouldn't have, something despicable, and the plot follows him disobeying the rules of momenteering and finding the culprit responsible.
Well worth a read. I can't really say much more without spoiling it!
It's a little like Severance, people who can afford to 'outsource' moments in their life they don't want to experience to a momenteer, kind of like a call centre worker - but rather than listening to the general public whinge ad infinitum, they live out their funerals, awkward conversations, terrible sex, etc.
The main character, Komo, ends up momenteering and sees something he shouldn't have, something despicable, and the plot follows him disobeying the rules of momenteering and finding the culprit responsible.
Well worth a read. I can't really say much more without spoiling it!
January 13, 2024
loved it
This book was great!! Good plot, even better sentences. Interesting characters that were very relatable and good use to stream of conscious writing.
This book was great!! Good plot, even better sentences. Interesting characters that were very relatable and good use to stream of conscious writing.
July 30, 2023
This is such a great debut novel. The author clearly has a really beautiful mind and the concept is very strong. There are very interesting scenarios that bring up themes and questions of morality and philosophical ideas and you as a reader play a very interesting role. I found myself getting really emotional reading the about the author section. Really looking forward to reading more of your books Craig. It always amazes me that people can conjure an idea in their mind, keep it there and give birth to words that convey that picture - enough words to write a book about it... brilliant. Keep it up <3
August 21, 2024
Remarkable idea. Magnetically real characters. Poignant. Brings the atmosphere of Severance meets 1984 yet carves its own groove. Darkly funny. Introspective. Morally ambiguous. The pacing unravels well... even when it's calm it charms. Immersive prose, cool metaphors. Complex. Gritty. Well-rounded world. The 2nd person chapters reeled me in hard.
It’s a novel that won’t be for all but deserves a cult following. It's more literary fiction but covers many themes
So... momenteering seems like a stressful job but if those in charge are reading this please recruit me.
It’s a novel that won’t be for all but deserves a cult following. It's more literary fiction but covers many themes
So... momenteering seems like a stressful job but if those in charge are reading this please recruit me.
January 13, 2025
It was weird, thrilling, and awkward. Komo has intense paranoia, for a good reason, is socially awkward, and yet can perform tasks for other people at the blink of an eye. He would create these grand ideas out of small clues, which ultimately lead to some crazy stuff happening. I felt like I was reading the ramblings of a madman with bouts of clarity sprinkled along the way. A very interesting read.
May 25, 2024
Was an interesting story, some plot holes (Imo) and I felt it kinda fizzled out at the end, but a good overall read
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