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Even the Favored Suffer
A new age dawns, and with it, prophecy has come for the royal nothings. Though, for Marsea, Remy, and Desmond Lanier, their fated paths are anything but apparent. Even with the aid of a primordial being called the gift.
Tomes and tales taught them about the gift and how to tap into its wealth of forms, but, trust it true, there's a world's difference between merely finding the gift and learning how to tame and harness it. Will their union with a creature as chaotic as the gift prove their salvation or their undoing?
Hope dwindles as the horrors of the nether devour all sentient life in sight, but may yet lie within a set of grimoires forged during the Age of Dragons. However, with one of the last surviving members of House Lanier possessed by an evil entity bent on conquest and annihilation, will the royal nothings even survive each other long enough to collect the ancient texts and save what remains of their dying civilization? Even the Favored Suffer is the third book in the pulse-pounding dark fantasy horror series The Giftborn Chronicles , from Drew Bailey.
Tomes and tales taught them about the gift and how to tap into its wealth of forms, but, trust it true, there's a world's difference between merely finding the gift and learning how to tame and harness it. Will their union with a creature as chaotic as the gift prove their salvation or their undoing?
Hope dwindles as the horrors of the nether devour all sentient life in sight, but may yet lie within a set of grimoires forged during the Age of Dragons. However, with one of the last surviving members of House Lanier possessed by an evil entity bent on conquest and annihilation, will the royal nothings even survive each other long enough to collect the ancient texts and save what remains of their dying civilization? Even the Favored Suffer is the third book in the pulse-pounding dark fantasy horror series The Giftborn Chronicles , from Drew Bailey.
338 pages, Paperback
Published October 5, 2023
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Drew Bailey
3 books19 followersDrew Bailey is an emerging author of horror and fantasy. Though he attended college to expand his knowledge of Literature and History, it still took him the better part of a decade to actually mold it into something worth chasing after. Better late than never, as they say. The Royal Nothings is his first novel. In his spare time, Drew is a chronic coffee drinker, avid movie watcher, and follows Liverpool F.C. and the Green Bay Packers.
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January 21, 2025
Drew Bailey continues his Giftborn Chronicles, instantly hurling his readers back into the fray of a GoT style apocalypse, flavored pleasantly with Eldritch Horror and a dash of Evil Dead and the Thing. It’s worth a chuckle when you realize the title of this installment is an apt descriptor: Even the Favored Suffer, for while the Lanier siblings still live (or unlive as it were) the events are enough to make anyone wish for a quick merciful end. But hey, that’s grimdark baby!
The clock is ticking for the Lanier survivors as dead warlocks and ancient dragon spirits maneuver in the presence of an all-consuming primordial darkness killing and corrupting everything in its ravenous path: EMPHASIS ON CORRUPTING!
And one truth quickly becomes clear: what happens when you abuse ancient ethereal powers without constraint? It abuses you and your planet right back!
As usual, Drew Bailey delivers intensity and lore in heaps to put you on the edge of your seat Doom Eternal style, and I love it! The only complaint I can think of in that department is that so much new information hits you with such rapidity that it is difficult to keep up with. (But I’ll admit, it’s been awhile since I read They Once Had Names, so that might have played a factor)
Aside from that, the only complaint that really keeps this book from claiming the fifth star of its priors might be the spicy scenes. Maybe I am not remembering right, but I don’t remember them in the previous two, and the reminisces about those seem ill-fitted to the dire rush of events when whole swaths of city populations are dropping like flies. But, I’ll also admit, it’s my own gripe, and there are readers it will go over better with.
Regardless, awesome work Mr Bailey. I enjoyed it as always, and I’ll be back for more
The clock is ticking for the Lanier survivors as dead warlocks and ancient dragon spirits maneuver in the presence of an all-consuming primordial darkness killing and corrupting everything in its ravenous path: EMPHASIS ON CORRUPTING!
And one truth quickly becomes clear: what happens when you abuse ancient ethereal powers without constraint? It abuses you and your planet right back!
As usual, Drew Bailey delivers intensity and lore in heaps to put you on the edge of your seat Doom Eternal style, and I love it! The only complaint I can think of in that department is that so much new information hits you with such rapidity that it is difficult to keep up with. (But I’ll admit, it’s been awhile since I read They Once Had Names, so that might have played a factor)
Aside from that, the only complaint that really keeps this book from claiming the fifth star of its priors might be the spicy scenes. Maybe I am not remembering right, but I don’t remember them in the previous two, and the reminisces about those seem ill-fitted to the dire rush of events when whole swaths of city populations are dropping like flies. But, I’ll also admit, it’s my own gripe, and there are readers it will go over better with.
Regardless, awesome work Mr Bailey. I enjoyed it as always, and I’ll be back for more
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