The Only Good Indians Audiobook
There’s a moment maybe a third of the way into The Only Good Indians where I had to pause, take the headphones off, and sit on my back step for a while before I could keep going. That is the…
Clara Hayes
Clara Hayes is the founder and lead reviewer at Audio Book Spot. A lifelong listener, she has worked her way through thousands of hours of audio across every genre — epic fantasy, literary fiction, romance, thrillers, and memoir. Clara reviews with the listening experience front and center: narrator performance, pacing, production, and whether a title truly rewards the hours it asks of you. Her goal is simple — to help you spend your listening time on audiobooks you'll actually love.
Bird Box Audiobook
Cassandra Campbell narrates Bird Box the way you’d whisper across a dark room to someone you’re afraid will answer back. What follows is my honest read on the Bird Box audiobook. That’s the first thing that hit me. She keeps…
The Haunting of Hill House Audiobook
Can a house be guilty of something? So let’s get into the Haunting of Hill House audiobook. Shirley Jackson clearly thinks so, and after seven hours inside this one I’m not inclined to argue with her. Hill House doesn’t rattle…
Mexican Gothic Audiobook
I was scrubbing a roasting pan at eleven at night, earbuds in, when Noemí steps through the front door of High Place for the first time and the air in my own kitchen seemed to go damp along with hers.…
The Push Audiobook
There’s a specific kind of dread that has nothing to do with ghosts or masked men, and Ashley Audrain builds her whole novel inside it. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Push audiobook. The Push follows Blythe, a mother…
The Paris Apartment Audiobook
There is a particular kind of dread that only good crime fiction can bottle, and Lucy Foley bottles it again here: the feeling of standing in a beautiful room and slowly understanding that every person in it is lying to…
I Let You Go Audiobook
Nicola Barber does something in the first ten minutes of I Let You Go that made me stop wiping down the kitchen counter and just stand there. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the I Let You Go audiobook, then. She…
The Couple Next Door Audiobook
How well do you actually know the couple you waved at over the fence this morning? What follows is my honest read on the Couple Next Door audiobook. Shari Lapena spends nine hours poking at that exact itch, and by…
Big Little Lies Audiobook
I was halfway through folding a mountain of laundry when Caroline Lee did the thing that made me set the socks down and just stand there. Below is how the Big Little Lies audiobook actually plays out loud. It’s the…
The Wife Between Us Audiobook
Some books get recommended to you so many times that you start avoiding them out of pure spite. Let me walk you through the Wife Between Us audiobook. That was me and The Wife Between Us for the better part…