webseries: Riese

Riese is a steampunk webseries about a renegade princess who wanders around the forest doing good with her wolf, being hunted by clockwork-styled soldiers who work for the evil queen who killed her family. So, kinda normal fantasy, but steampunk.

I have only seen one webseries before (Making Fiends) so I can’t speak of its quality as compared to other webseries, but the available episodes I watched were pretty fun. You can learn more about it here and watch it here.

ETA: It appears the episodes are temporarily unavailable. Woes and alas!

Trailer:

Reading YA for great justice.

Hastings is having a 2-for-3 sale on YA/kids/manga books, and I am stocking up. Which has caused me to realize exactly how many YA books I have backlogged. (That, and I'm reading Harry Potter at work. I never read HP because I knew I wouldn't care for it, but I was down to it, Twilight, or thumb twiddling between calls. They're probably a lot better when you read/start reading them at a younger age and/or over the space of almost a decade, but I find them dull, really bad, terribly unsubtle, and frequently rage inducing. I may or may not post more, but I know most of you like them, and the above was probably already close enough to wank. But basically, my brain wants to recover with good YA/kids fiction.)

Anyway. I have many YA books and am a terrible fiction-to-read decision maker, which calls for a poll. Most of these are authors I haven't read before. Some come with captions.

poll at LJ