Audiobook Reviews

The Crack in Space

17 February 2026

Listening to The Crack in Space is a sharp reminder that classic science fiction doesn’t always age gracefully. Set in a speculative future but written in the mid-1960s, the book opens with racial ideas and terminology that feel confronting now, […]

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Invisible Monsters

13 February 2026

Invisible Monsters doesn’t ease you into its world. It drops you mid-collapse, then keeps rearranging the pieces just as you start to get your footing. The result is a deliberately disjointed listening experience, one that mirrors the book’s obsession with

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Review Contemporary

Nearly Departed

10 February 2026

Some stories announce their premise loudly; Nearly Departed does the opposite. It opens with death, yes, but what follows is a quiet, melancholy exploration of what it means to keep living once the worst has already happened. This isn’t a

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Review Science Fiction

Spaced Out

6 February 2026

Spaced Out opens with the kind of disorientation that feels unsettling without ever tipping into panic. Elen is twenty-six, lives in a small town in Washington State, and already considers herself a bit scattered thanks to her ADHD. Waking up

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Review Science Fiction

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

3 February 2026

Sometimes a story finds you backwards. In this case, it started with a rewatch of Total Recall (the 1980s version) which led to a dive into Philip K. Dick’s original short story, and eventually to this free, two-part podcast adaptation

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Review Humor

Goyhood

2 February 2026

Goyhood starts with a small lie told early in childhood and follows the long, unexpected mess it creates years later. What begins as a story about faith and identity slowly turns into an awkward, often funny American road trip between

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Review Fantasy

The Hidden Kingdom

27 January 2026

The Hidden Kingdom steps straight into familiar fantasy territory with rival princes, a volatile king, backstabbing advisors, old laws rubbing up against ambition, and a kingdom that feels like it’s been waiting a long time for things to go wrong.

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Review Science Fiction

The Pursuit of William Abbey

23 January 2026

Some books hinge on a single bad decision. The Pursuit of William Abbey is very clear about which one it is, and it never lets its main character forget it. William Abbey is an English doctor in 1880s South Africa

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Review RomCom

Set the Record Straight

20 January 2026

After spotting this during the recent sale for under two bucks and that it had Lori Prince as a narrator, I figured it was worth a shot. Set the Record Straight is a short, holiday-tinged romantic comedy with a fake

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Review Science Fiction

The 22 Murders of Madison May

16 January 2026

I picked up The 22 Murders of Madison May mostly because the premise sounded intriguing and partly because it was very cheap during one of Audible’s site-wide sales. For the price (less than $2.50!), it felt like a low-risk gamble.

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Review RomCom

#CassiNova

13 January 2026

#CassiNova is a genuinely funny, warm and unexpectedly sweet romcom that had me laughing more often than I expected. I went in expecting something light and some chuckles and ended up with an almost non-stop laugh-out-loud funny story that’s also

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Review Science Fiction

Replay

9 January 2026

Jeff Winston dies while on the phone with his wife in October 1988 and wakes to find he’s back in the body of his 18-year-old self in his college dorm room. The do-over idea in science fiction is one I

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