Clara Hayes

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.

Crooked Kingdom Audiobook

If Six of Crows left you pacing the kitchen at 2 a.m., Crooked Kingdom is the audiobook you queue up before you’ve even taken your earbuds out. I’ve spent real hours with the Crooked Kingdom audiobook, so here is the…

Billy Summers Audiobook

I went into Billy Summers expecting a lean crime thriller and came out feeling like I’d spent a long, unhurried summer with a man I couldn’t stop rooting for. That is the setup; now the Billy Summers audiobook itself. This…

The Seven Year Slip Audiobook

This audiobook is for anyone who has ever loved someone they couldn’t hold onto and still half-believes a little magic might linger in an old apartment. So let’s get into the Seven Year Slip audiobook. Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year…

Neuromancer Audiobook

Some books feel like they were built to be read aloud in a dim room with the volume up, and Neuromancer is one of them. Here’s what the Neuromancer audiobook is really like. William Gibson’s 1984 landmark practically hums with…

Behind Her Eyes Audiobook

Some thrillers you finish and shrug off by breakfast. What follows is my honest read on the Behind Her Eyes audiobook. Behind Her Eyes is not one of those. I went in braced for a standard tale of a woman,…

Home Before Dark Audiobook

Some houses feel like they’re holding their breath, and Baneberry Hall is exactly that kind of place. That is the setup; now the Home Before Dark audiobook itself. I went into Home Before Dark expecting a familiar haunted-house setup and…

Just for the Summer Audiobook

If you have ever quietly told yourself that a little heartbreak was a fair price to pay for a good story, then Abby Jimenez wrote Just for the Summer with you in mind. Below is how the Just for the…

The Stand Audiobook

Some books you read; a few you move into. I’ve spent real hours with the Stand audiobook, so here is the verdict. The Stand, in its complete and uncut edition, is firmly the second kind, and on audio it becomes…

Gideon the Ninth Audiobook

Lesbian necromancers in space, trading swordfights and insults across a crumbling palace full of skeletons, yes, really. Below is how the Gideon the Ninth audiobook actually plays out loud. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth is as gloriously unhinged as that…