Mar 4, 2019: Despite the tags, this is definitely a superhero story, about a group of four teenagers with music-based superpowers who save the world by fighting cartoonish villains who also have music-based superpowers.

While most of the web fiction community is focused on more serious sci-fi, fantasy, or drama, Music Masters goes full on Saturday Morning Cartoon on us, bringing a story quite unlike anything else you’ll find on the website. It really feels like a comic book brought into prose (and knowing [more . . .]

Feb 18, 2019: This review is part of a review swap. I was provided with a free copy of the ebook, but all opinions are my own.

I’ve been sitting here pondering whether I’d rather assign four or four and a half stars. Graven has its flaws, but in the end I decided that these flaws (such as the class A speed of the plot development) actually aren’t detrimental to web fiction. But there are a lot of typos and minor editing issues (their [more . . .]

Feb 11, 2019: "Overhull" is the story of a renegade mechanic, sticking it to the powerful corporations by fixing their broken ships. Hull is a former military officer who retired to fix old ships but now w young girl, whose family Hull helped years ago, shows up eager to learn.

The first three episodes throw a lot at the wall. But they don’t really stick. The core idea here is solid. Quirky engineer, eager apprentice, evil corporation inevitably going to make their lives difficult. [more . . .]

Feb 5, 2019: The New Humans is a story that tries very hard.

It’s a long-form serial that’s been updating irregularly for over two years now. It’s a kind of period piece, exploring superpowers in 60s Australia.

And it suffers from that common double-edge sword of serials: the writer is improving. The opening chapters are rough. Just as you’ve heard many times before — for many different serials — it gets better.

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Jan 31, 2019: The first thing I should note about Trilobite Park is the formatting. It’s not the easiest read due to the navigation of the site being a little wonky, and there are enough grammar errors that BGHilton should go back and proofread.

The story itself has a very esoteric idea behind it but the writing is very simple and streamlined. Descriptions are crisp and give us just the right amount of information. Infodumps are non-existent, with Hilton expecting you to have read [more . . .]

Jan 27, 2019: Note: This story is completed in ebook form, but is being posted for free chapter by chapter on the Anathema web serial blog. I was given a copy of the completed book as part of a review swap.

Gift of Light is a smaller-scale, self-contained story set within the Anathema (aka Powered Destinies) universe. Despite being a stand-alone novel, it would really benefit the reader if they read Anathema (currently being released on Amazon as Superluminary) first, to better familiarize themselves [more . . .]