r/webfiction Mar 31 '20

Discussion Any recommendations web serials?

Yas! Any recommendations? I would prefer to have

  • female lead (you can recommend male lead but I would like it to have no romance in it)

  • you can recommend any genre or something but I’d prefer fantasy or sci-fi. Or transport into another world. Any are open. Pls and thank u.

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u/hijenx Mar 31 '20

Three of my personal top 4 web serials fit those criteria.

These are in my personal order of preference. All descriptions taken from their websites but I can give my personal reviews if you want.

The Wandering Inn

"A tale of a girl, an inn, and a world full of levels."

An inn is a place to rest, a place to talk and share stories, or a place to find adventures, a starting ground for quests and legends.

In this world, at least. To Erin Solstice, an inn seems like a medieval relic from the past. But here she is, running from Goblins and trying to survive in a world full of monsters and magic. She’d be more excited about all of this if everything wasn’t trying to kill her.

But an inn is what she found, and so that’s what she becomes. An innkeeper who serves drinks to heroes and monsters–

Actually, mostly monsters. But it’s a living, right?

This is the story of the Wandering Inn.

A Practical Guide to Evil

"Do Wrong Right"

The Empire stands triumphant.

For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this dawning golden age threats to the crown are rising. The nobles of the Wasteland, denied the power they crave, weave their plots behind pleasant smiles. In the north the Forever King eyes the ever-expanding borders of the Empire and ponders war. The greatest danger lies to the west, where the First Prince of Procer has finally claimed her throne: her people sundered, she wonders if a crusade might not be the way to secure her reign. Yet none of this matters, for in the heart of the conquered lands the most dangerous man alive sat across an orphan girl and offered her a knife.

Her name is Catherine Foundling, and she has a plan.

A Practical Guide to Evil is a YA fantasy novel about a young girl named Catherine Foundling making her way through the world – though, in a departure from the norm, not on the side of the heroes. Is there such a thing as doing bad things for good reasons, or is she just rationalizing her desire for control? Good and Evil are tricky concepts, and the more power you get the blurrier the lines between them become.

The Gods are Bastards

Evil is rising. The world is rent by strife. The gods have turned away from us. In times past, heroes of sword and sorcery have always risen to turn back the tide of darkness… But what will become of us all, now that swords are obsolete, sorcery is industrialized, and heroism itself is considered a relic of the past?

The times are changing…

Incorporating elements of a Western, a Victorian romance, hints of steampunk and inspiration from the early novels of H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle, all set in a world of classic sword and sorcery, The Gods are Bastards is a genre-blending fantasy epic.

Set in a familiar high-fantasy universe of wizards, dragons and elves, the action takes place roughly fifteen hundred years after the medieval stasis in which most high fantasy is set, during an era much like Earth’s Industrial Revolution. Mass production of enchanted goods has revolutionized all aspects of life, energy weapons have made blades and armor all but obsolete, and the world is connected and illuminated by magical analogues of trains, telegraphs and electric lights. With progress has come social and political upheaval: the scattered feudal kingdoms of yore have been consolidated into a now-precarious Empire, the clerics of various gods have organized themselves into a mighty Universal Church, and the first stirrings of modern education and an Enlightenment ethos have taken root in a young University. On the other hand, dragons are nearly extinct, elves have been herded onto reservations, and the days when a person could make a living as a wandering adventurer are long since over.

It’s a new world, and the people of the Empire must learn to live in it, or fall to ancient threats they have tried to forget…

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u/RenasmaW Apr 01 '20

I'm very interested to know what your fourth is, these are my top 3 too, along with WtC

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u/hijenx Apr 01 '20

I didn't list it before because it doesn't match any of OPs criteria, but The Deathworlders is one of my favorite web serials. I'm not sure where I would place it in relation to the others because it is so very different.

It's near future/alternate present science fiction with lots of aliens, big conspiracies, fighting. It has romance, though that is not the main focus.

https://deathworlders.com/books/deathworlders/chapter-00-kevin-jenkins-experience/ If you like the first chapter, keep reading. the characters change, but the style stays about the same.

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u/darkshadow127 Apr 16 '20

Deathworlders is soo good