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Elaine Ho
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In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love?
With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi has had to find another way to bolster her fight against her imperialist oppressors. The solution: wrenching children of other cultures from their homes and conscripting them into service.
Hammer was one of those children. Now, she’s a jaded soldier waging Ashvi’s perpetual war, thinking only of her own survival. But when she accidentally rescues Viridian, a child with rare and potentially devastating powers, her priorities shift. The girl appears to be the answer to the queen’s prayers—the perfect weapon to restore her kingdom’s ancient borders, even if the colonized cities they reconquer don’t want her version of liberation. Can Hammer protect Viridian from the system that broke her . . . before the girl’s power is unleashed on the world?
Cry, Voidbringer is a gripping saga of how far one will go for freedom and control—and how easily it can all be taken away.
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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • Mar 24
an overly ambitious last-week-of-March TBR
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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • Sep 28 2025
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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • Sep 1 2025
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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • Sep 1 2025
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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • Aug 24 2025
[We have officially hit ONE HUNDRED members of this Bindery community! Technically, we’ve even gone a little bit over already 🥹\ \ I am so beyond grateful for every one of you who have joined me on this platform, and I adore the wonderful community we have created here and on Discord.\ \ To celebrate one hundred members, I’m giving away ARCs of my two most anticipated Bindery fall releases!\ \ \ \ If you weren't aware, Bindery isn't just a subscription service, it’s also a traditional publisher. Platforms that grow enough subscribers are able to open their own imprints and acquire and publish books! Bindery has books releasing from seven different imprints this fall across an array of genres, and I was lucky enough to get an extra copy of two of their fantasy releases–To Bargain With Mortals by R.A. Basu and Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho–which means I have extra copies to give away to a lucky member of our community!\ \ ABOUT THE BOOKS:\ \ To Bargain With Mortals by R.A. Basu, published by Emma Skies at Skies Press\ \ An outcast heiress. A notorious gang leader. A country on the brink of revolution. \ \ In the colonized nation of Viryana, Poppy Sutherland lives between cultures. As the brown-skinned adopted daughter of the Viceroy, she is both rejected by white high society and alienated from the people of her native island. When she discovers her opportunistic fiancé’s plot to exile her, Poppy flees—straight into the clutches of the Jackal. \ \ Hasan Devar, the ruthless criminal known as the Jackal, has long been targeted for his family’s divine magic, a gift the colonizers have tried to stamp out. When his brother is arrested, he seizes Poppy as leverage. But Poppy has powerful secrets—and political ambitions—of her own. As allies, they could do more than just free Hasan’s brother and keep Poppy safe. They could topple the very power structures that hold them all back. \ \ The first book in the Reckoning Storm duology, To Bargain with Mortals is a stunning reflection on politics and purpose, blood and allegiance—and what we do with the histories we inherit. \ \ Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho, published by Michael Laborn at Left Unread Books\ \ In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love?\ \ With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi has had to find another way to bolster her fight against her imperialist oppressors. The solution: wrenching children of other cultures from their homes and conscripting them into service.\ \ Hammer was one of those children. Now, she’s a jaded soldier waging Ashvi’s perpetual war, thinking only of her own survival. But when she accidentally rescues Viridian, a child with rare and potentially devastating powers, her priorities shift. The girl appears to be the answer to the queen’s prayers—the perfect weapon to restore her kingdom’s ancient borders, even if the colonized cities they reconquer don’t want her version of liberation. Can Hammer protect Viridian from the system that broke her . . . before the girl’s power is unleashed on the world?\ \ Cry, Voidbringer is a gripping saga of how far one will go for freedom and control—and how easily it can all be taken away.\ \ TO ENTER: \ \
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chronicallybookish\ \ Kaley\ \ • Jun 27 2025
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Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho 💥 published by Michael Laborn at Left Unread Books Hammer, once a child wrenched from her culture and conscripted into service in a perpetual war by a fading colonial empire, has accidentally rescued a child with rare and potentially devastating powers that could hand the empire the ability to reconquer the world.
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welcome to episode 2 of reading thru recovery! we've officially made it through two weeks of surgery. read with me as I recover from an achilles rupture and surgery. in this vlog, I read cry, voidbringer, left the house for the first time, bought new books, open a blind date with a book, and ... took a fall. this is a very chatty, vulnerable, reading vlog.
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