Michael Mayer III

Passionate Blackhawks fan. Lemonade Lover. Husband. Father.

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So in a few weeks, after I finish Curse of the Mistwraith, I’m going to take a day to do an Indie Dark Fantasy Faceoff. So far I have six books that I will read the Prologue and Chapter 1 of each & post about to determine which book I’ll read next. Anyone have other suggestions?

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@TheStarwald @luke_tarzian @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks One thing I always wondered, why don’t you have your name on the cover? I’ve seen this cover and book talked about a bit but never knew who wrote it. I think it’d help with more exposure at least

[Michael Mayer III @2Goals17Sec]

So in a few weeks, after I finish Curse of the Mistwraith, I’m going to take a day to do an Indie Dark Fantasy Faceoff. So far I have six books that I will read the Prologue and Chapter 1 of each & post about to determine which book I’ll read next. Anyone have other suggestions?

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@ZB_Steele @SoullessEddie Is this planned to be a trilogy overall?

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@Protarn Shame how his arc ended so unceremoniously. Wanted to see a knife fight between him and Raven…

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Finished this one today. A fun deviation from the standard POV of the first trilogy. Overall very enjoyable story that concludes some character arcs from that trilogy. 4 ⭐️ 9/10

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@AcrossCavs I miss Pronk so much. Was my fav player of those teams

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@car_a_carn42 Only finished the 4th book and it’s rapidly jumped up my ratings. Might end up in the top 3

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@GeauxReadBooks Ah, glad to see Erikson has made his mark! He’s my number 1 easily.

My top 5 fantasy Authors of All Time:

1. Steven Erikson
2. Brandon Sanderson
3. CS Lewis
4. Glen Cook
5. John Gwynne

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@The_Grimwalker @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks Nice pitch! I’ll investigate it some more. It’s on my radar now at least, even if I don’t add it to this faceoff

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@The_Grimwalker @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks Ha, fair enough. Got a pitch or some comps? I will admit, not a fan of grimdark normally. I need some element of hope and people doing good deeds at some point. Malazan is my favorite for instance but I can’t do First Law type stuff

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@ZB_Steele @TonyColdWine @ChanceBeeDillon @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks @adrianmgibson Yeah, Mushroom Blues was awesome, got that on launch and consumed it.

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@MoeWanders @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks I hope they all do because then I’ll be rocking. Only hope one pulls away enough to make it an easy choice 🤣

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@MoeWanders I wanted to tag you in the original post but couldn’t. Wanted to let you know you are in the running!

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@TheStarwald @luke_tarzian @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks And of course I didn’t recognize you were the author haha. Nice sly plug

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@TheStarwald @luke_tarzian @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks Ah, nice! I’ve seen this mentioned a lot but forget about it sometimes. I’ll do some investigating into it.

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@TonyColdWine @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks Ah, I have most of his purchased but he’s not Indie! I do plan on checking him out sooner or later.

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@boycereads Ah, heard this was pretty brutal grimdark which I’m not a fan of. Of course I realize some of the ones I picked could be classified as that but also as Dark Fantasy which is probably my favorite genre. I don’t like the depressing nihilistic aspect of grimdark.

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@mfvoss @ChanceBeeDillon @ZB_Steele @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks Yeah, I’ll take that into consideration. Or I may just read it after if it “wins” ha. Whichever book I decide to go with, if I like the first entry I’ll keep reading the series until I run out of material. Doing this because I honestly can’t decide what to read haha

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Honestly the most gorgeous set of covers I could probably compile. Wish I had them all in paperback instead of Kindle haha

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@ZB_Steele @ChanceBeeDillon @monteroauthor @MichaelBookCult @shankbooks Ah, is By Blood, By Salt considered Dark Fantasy? I do have it on Kindle.