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.

A Court of Wings and Ruin Audiobook

There’s a particular thrill in reaching the third book of a series you’ve fallen for, and pressing play on A Court of Wings and Ruin gave me exactly that jolt. Settle in for my take on the A Court of…

Assistant to the Villain Audiobook

I went into Assistant to the Villain expecting brooding capes and dramatic monologues, and instead I got a workplace comedy where the boss just happens to run an evil lair. Let me walk you through the Assistant to the Villain…

Quicksilver Audiobook

I went into Quicksilver expecting a fun fae fling and came out several sleepless nights later, thumb-worn and thoroughly obsessed. Consider this your spoiler-free guide to the Quicksilver audiobook. This is the audiobook that had half of BookTok whispering “Kingfisher”…

Daisy Jones & the Six

If you’ve only read Daisy Jones & the Six in print, you’ve experienced the novel as a screenplay—all dialogue and stage directions, a literary blueprint waiting for actors. The audiobook, though, is where this book lives. With twenty-one narrators lending…

The Power of Habit Audiobook

The cue-routine-reward loop isn’t explained to you in abstract terms—it’s told through stories. A toothpaste ad from the 1940s where marketing genius Claude C. Hopkins made brushing teeth a social habit. A college football team that turned itself around by…

A Fate Inked in Blood Audiobook

Some fantasy romances announce themselves with a whisper, and some kick the door in wearing a war axe. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the A Fate Inked in Blood audiobook, then. This one does the latter, and hearing it read…

The Outsider Audiobook

An airtight murder case against a beloved local man—whose airtight alibi puts him 60 miles away at the same moment. This is how Stephen King opens The Outsider, and it’s the kind of setup that should feel impossible to sustain.…

Divine Rivals Audiobook

I went into Divine Rivals expecting a cozy enemies-to-lovers story and came out the other side a little wrecked, in the best way. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Divine Rivals audiobook. This is the audiobook I kept “just…

Powerless Audiobook

I went into Powerless expecting a fun little binge and came out having rearranged my whole week around it. Settle in for my take on the Powerless audiobook. This is Lauren Roberts’ debut and the opener of The Powerless Trilogy,…