Bookstagram Tour Sign Ups: Manzakar by R. Laham

Hi everyone! Ready for our next tour sign ups? ✨

We are delighted to announce that we are organizing a Bookstagram Tour for Manzakar by R. Laham! This tour will run from August 11th to August 20th, 2025 with a total of 10 stops.
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Sold into slavery and forged into an elite soldier of Anzor, Tikran must choose between glory and justice when he uncovers the truth behind Anzor’s power. To save his people, he’ll have to betray the king he serves—and risk everything for freedom.

Manzakar is the first book in The Slave-Soldier Series, an epic Fantasy published on April 29th, 2025 from Oliver-Heber Books!

Add it to your TBR if you enjoy tales of:
✨Epic battles
✨Queer romance
✨Middle eastern inspired
✨Political intrigue

Make sure you read the full synopsis below & to sign up if you are interested. We can’t wait to tour this epic read with you! 📖💙✨

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Tour Details:
– We are looking for 10 bookstagrammers to feature the book in their feeds in a bookstagram setup/photo.
– Hosts will receive a paperback copy of Manzakar to read & review for the tour.
– As always, it is open internationally.

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Here’s more about the book:

The Gohari are a race of nomadic, pansexual people with inherent magic who are suffering at the hands of the Kingdom of Anzor’s angry god, Cenk. By harnessing the nomads’ skills in horsemanship and archery, Anzor has built a powerful, elite class of slave-soldiers who are above and beyond any other kingdom’s army: the Manzakars.

Sold into slavery to save his nomad family from starving, Tikran becomes a Manzakar believing that they are warriors of justice. However, as he campaigns in Gohar, the land of his birth, he realizes that not only is Anzor using the Manzakars to persecute the nomads, but it’s also exploiting the Gohari by enslaving them and stealing their magic—the Essence—to be the most powerful kingdom on the Continent. As the most celebrated Manzakar in Anzor and the king’s personal bodyguard, Tikran must decide if he’s willing to forfeit his dreams of glory—as well as his own life and the lives of those he loves—to stand up for what he believes in and fight for the oppressed people of Gohar.

* Content Warnings: Profanity, violence, torture, pregnancy, rape (off page), abortion (off page), child abuse, homophobia, sexual situations

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***Hosts selected will receive a confirmation email a few days after we close sign ups. Please remember that signing up does not guarantee you a spot in the tour since copies are very limited but we always consider small and big accounts that LOVE to read/review the books we tour & engage with the community. If we cannot include you on this tour, we encourage you to keep signing up!***

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About R. Laham

I've done everything under the sun—I have a BA in archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, a law degree from the University from Houston, and have worked as a graphic artist, romance editor, writer, UX designer, frontend developer... the list actually goes on. Yet through all these endeavors, I've always known my true calling was storytelling. I'm a huge nerd and draw my inspiration from actual history and RPGs, particularly video games (Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Horizon, Dark Souls...). I write "approachable" fantasy that is meant to be an escape from all of our real-world trials and tribulations while subtly (and not-so-subtly) challenging the status quo.

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