City of Roses is about what happens when Jo Maguire, a highly strung underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecifiable pedigree. It’s also about hearts broken cleanly and otherwise, the City of Portland, Spenser, those moments in pop songs when the bass and all of the drums except maybe a handclap suddenly drop out of the bridge leaving . . .
Thalia’s Musings is a series of original novels written by Amethyst Marie. It’s narrated by Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, as she observes the comedy, drama, and tragedy of the ancient Greek pantheon. But when Thalia becomes more than an observer, the Fates take notice. Are Thalia’s powers limited to helping mortal playwrights hack out a comedy sketch, or can . . .
On a tower of metal and light, a girl faces an uncertain future. Awash with the tears of gods, a warrior stares down the universe. Together they journey across dangerous lands, to spare the world a demon’s madness. Romance and dark fantasy blend together in this interesting tale about the things we see and the things we don’t. Eikasia—Sometimes, . . .
Corrie, Edie, and Dawn are excited, nervous, curious, and, well, lots of other emotions about their first semester at Chatoyant College. They know it’s going to be a weird few months: they’ve left their familiar high school existences for something completely new, their college is the only one in the United States with a magic program, and it comes complete . . .
Deucalion Chronicles is a meta-series containing many stories all set within the same universe. So what’s that universe look like? To put it in TvTropes terms, it would be Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera, full of Magitek. Or, to put it another way, it’s what happens when high fantasy gets out of the dark ages, shoots past urban fantasy, and . . .
A serialized novella about a girl’s journey of self-discovery, set in a future world of oysters, pearls and magic. Mirra is a magic user, but her gift is scorned by the menfolk in her village. Men are allowed to use magic; women are not. So, after a tumultuous event, Mirra decides to leave and heads for the City to continue . . .
Being a mutant isn’t all its cracked up to be. Mary Stevens can’t even take a bath without her abilities raising hell and trying to drown her. Living with her brothers—and fellow mutants—Greg and Brian, she’s working to understand how their powers relate to the greater world, while trying to discover just how to live a normal life. Or, well, . . .
When I first I click on a link to web serial it’s without any intention of reading it right then and there. I just want to have a nose around the site, scan a few paragraphs, look at some pictures if there are any, and decide if it’s of interest to me and how soon I may return to read [more . . .]
As some one non-indigenous to the worlds of High Fantasy, I generally find myself instinctively shying away from any narrative which mentions a "Quest," particularly in the first ten pages, and especially if it involves some kind of Demonic Overlord.
In the past this aversion has been a bit of a [more . . .]