Audiobook Reviews

The Dragon’s Banker

The Audiobook Review — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:01:52 +0000

The title is The Dragon’s Banker. The blurb talks about dragons. There’s a dragon-person on the cover. Naturally, I expected a fair amount of dragon. This was more, dragon-adjacent for the most part with a main course of accounting and […]

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Cleave the Sparrow

The Audiobook Review — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:47:28 +0000

Cleave the Sparrow feels a bit like somebody trapped a philosophy lecture, a political satire, a quantum physics rant, and a mushroom trip inside the same audiobook and then shook it violently before pressing record. The story starts around Wilder […]

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The Beach

The Audiobook Review — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:23:24 +0000

The Beach is one of those books I read ages ago and mostly remembered as a kind of sun-bleached escape story. Coming back to it now, it still has that easy pull in the early sections, Bangkok, Ke Shan Road, […]

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Caput Mundi

The Audiobook Review — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:25:07 +0000

Kidnapping an eleven-year-old because his dad owes money sounds like a fairly grim way to open a middle grade fantasy, but fortunately for Niil, his kidnappers are quite personable for people trying to use him as a bargaining chip. It […]

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A Parade of Horribles

The Audiobook Review — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:27:46 +0000

Dungeon Crawler Carl remains one of my favourite audiobook series going around, and honestly at this point Jeff Hays deserves to be studied in a lab somewhere. One man somehow performing what sounds like a full cast production feels like […]

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Shoot the Dead

The Audiobook Review — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:46:04 +0000

I actually read this years ago, probably close to a decade back, and remembered almost nothing beyond “gangsters and zombies”. That worked out well since it felt mostly fresh going back in. It opens with a bit of historical setup […]

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The God Complex

The Audiobook Review — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:53:53 +0000

Seven billion people dropped into a last-person-standing competition, running for over 300 years. Day 112,000-ish, and M (our main protagonist’s full name is “M”) us about ready to tap out. The only thing that kept him going this long was […]

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Jealous of the Clouds

The Audiobook Review — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:28:34 +0000

This one sits pretty comfortably in a mystery/suspense story, with a true crime podcast popping up along the way to fill in the gaps. That element worked really well as a drip-feed for background without feeling like an info dump. […]

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The Sound of Violet

The Audiobook Review — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:29:00 +0000

A gentle romance with a slightly different angle than usual. Shawn is not exactly having a great time with dating. First dates tend to fall apart quickly, largely because he struggles to read people and takes things very literally. He […]

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Descending Thirds

The Audiobook Review — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:16:33 +0000

Descending Thirds spans a few decades, mostly centered in the 60s and 70s, following Alexandra as she tries to make her mark in the classical music world. Talent matters, but it’s clear early on that it isn’t enough. Expectations especially […]

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Everwoven

The Audiobook Review — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:11:28 +0000

Have you ever picked up a story and been a little unsure if I you were going to be able to get through it? Stories involving abuse, especially involving kids, tend to hit a bit hard for me. I am, […]

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The Terminal Gene

The Audiobook Review — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:08:21 +0000

The Terminal Gene by John H. Thomas is a fast-paced techno-conspiracy thriller set in the near future. It revolves around a simple question: what if your death had a timestamp that someone else could read? The story follows Dr. Emily […]

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