overall 14 votes: 
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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 . . .
overall 90 votes: 
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Tales of MU is an open-ended serial detailing the college life of one Mackenzie Blaise, a university student in a world where our fantasy is reality and our science is fantasy. Moving from her sheltered existence as an outcast and self-professed geek into the wild, wide world of Magisterius University, Mackenzie narrates her own story for us in a style . . .
overall 6 votes:
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Sun-kissed is a story about vampires, those hunted by vampires and those who hunt vampires. . . .
Sep 1, 2008: 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 further.
I did that with City of Roses and after an hour found that I had read all of Act One [more . . .]
Dec 6, 2009: I just started reading this, primarily because it’s set in my hometown of Portland. I’m not very far in, but I’m already hooked.
Con: It’s written in present tense, which is hard to pull off and usually annoys me.
Pro: Kip’s pulling it off, using it to write cinematically rather than dramatically, if that makes any sense.
If ever a town could plausibly [more . . .]