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.

Funny Story Audiobook

Can the worst thing a person ever does to you accidentally hand you the best year of your life? I’ve spent real hours with the Funny Story audiobook, so here is the verdict. That question sits at the warm, aching…

Happy Place Audiobook

Julia Whelan can make a single held breath sound like a decade of unspoken history, and she spends most of Happy Place proving it. Settle in for my take on the Happy Place audiobook. If you already trust Whelan with…

People We Meet on Vacation Audiobook

This one’s for anyone who has ever loved a friend a little too much to risk saying it out loud — and then spent years pretending they hadn’t. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the People We Meet on Vacation audiobook,…

The Spanish Love Deception Audiobook

Fans of The Hating Game know the exact high this book is chasing: two coworkers who cannot stand the sight of each other, boxed into forced proximity until all that loathing quietly curdles into something far more dangerous. Consider this…

Reminders of Him Audiobook

Kenna Rowan is a twenty-three-year-old woman who has just served five years for a mistake that cost a boy his life, and who now stands outside her own daughter’s window with no legal right to knock. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free…

It Starts with Us Audiobook

You closed out the final chapter of It Ends with Us, sat in the quiet for a moment, and realized you weren’t finished with Lily and Atlas — not even a little. That is the setup; now the It Starts…

The Women Audiobook

Early in The Women, a twenty-one-year-old nursing student named Frankie McGrath stands in her father’s study, looks at the “heroes’ wall” of men in her family, and asks a question no one wants to answer: why isn’t there a woman…

The Lincoln Highway Audiobook

Edward Herrmann’s narration is all warmth and gravel, the kind of voice that makes you trust every word. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the Lincoln Highway audiobook, then. That’s exactly the gift The Lincoln Highway needs on audio, where Amor…

Lessons in Chemistry Audiobook

The first thing you notice is Miranda Raison’s poise. Settle in for my take on the Lessons in Chemistry audiobook. She reads Elizabeth Zott the way Elizabeth would want to be read — precise, unhurried, faintly amused at everyone who…

Circe Audiobook

What happens to the women the old myths shove to the margins — the ones handed a single adjective, usually “witch,” and then written out of the story? Below is how the Circe audiobook actually plays out loud. Madeline Miller…