A Light So Blinding
The Kingdom Below, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Nina Yndis
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Will Thorne
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By:
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Emma Hamm
Summary
She was the offering. He became the sanctuary.
Astrid has survived her entire life by staying silent. As a veiled priestess, she advises a nobleman who makes every decision for her. But when a letter arrives claiming her long-lost sister is alive and captured by the trolls, Astrid is ready to risk everything.
What she didn't expect? Her nobleman is in debt. And he's decided to pay it with her body.
Traded to the gladiator pits beneath the kingdom, Astrid is handed to a brutal troll warrior known only as the Bull. Massive. Silent. Deadly. He's everything she's been taught to fear, and the only one who might help her escape.
Bjorn has spent years shackled, forced to fight for human entertainment. But when a fragile human woman is gifted to him, begging for help, something ancient stirs in his blood. Honor. Purpose. Rage.
He breaks his chains for her.
Now they're on the run through ancient wilds, cursed lands, and Bjorn's broken homeland. But Astrid is hiding more than secrets behind her veil. Magic pulses beneath her skin. And Bjorn? He might not be the monster she was taught to fear... but the man fate never meant her to love.
©2025 Emma Hamm (P)2026 Podium AudioFantastic. Great voices and emotion
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“She was the offering. He became the sanctuary.”
A Light So Blinding in audio form is utterly hypnotic. Emma Hamm’s writing already drips with aching tenderness and brutal beauty, but paired with the narration from Nina Yndis and Will Thorne it becomes immersive in the way only the very best romantacies manage. This audiobook didn’t just tell a story, it swallowed me whole.
Astrid is a heroine built from quiet resilience. As we begin the story she’s silenced, controlled, hidden behind layers of expectation and veils, yet there’s a fierce pulse beneath her softness. Seeing her slowly reclaim herself felt deeply emotional as the world around her tried so hard to break her spirit.
And Bjorn? He's absolute perfection. A mountain of rage and honour wrapped in scars and chains, yet every protective instinct and every restrained moment of tenderness landed like a blow to my chest. The monster narrative in this story is handled beautifully—the real horror are the humans. Bjorn may be brutal, but he is never cruel, and that distinction matters.
Their romance burns with a slow, devastating intensity. Every glance, every touch, every moment of trust earned between them feels monumental. Emma Hamm writes longing like an art form, and this relationship carries both savage desperation and incredible emotional safety. I absolutely adore this couple.
The narration is fantastic. Nina Yndis gives Astrid quiet vulnerability without ever making her weak, while Will Thorne’s performance as Bjorn is pure molten gravel—fierce, commanding, but threaded with aching softness. Together, they created chemistry so tangible I could practically feel it crackling through my hearing aids!
The world itself is lush and dangerous, full of mountains and forests, ancient magic, and grief-soaked history, but at its core this is a story about sanctuary. About finding the one person who sees you clearly after a lifetime of invisibility.
Beautiful, brutal, and deeply romantic, this audiobook completely consumed me.
Beautiful, brutal and utterly hypnotic
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