When the American Library Association pinned a Printz Honor on Scythe in 2017, it was celebrating something genuinely strange for young adult fiction: a dystopia that takes place inside a utopia. Below is how the Scythe audiobook actually plays out…
For the longest time I assumed a cyborg Cinderella would amount to little more than a costume change — the same glass-slipper plot with a few chrome parts bolted on, coasting on the novelty of the mash-up. What follows is…
Twelve hours and thirty-six minutes. Here’s what the Cruel Prince audiobook is really like. That is how long Caitlin Kelly keeps you locked inside the faerie court of Elfhame, and if you have opened BookTok even once in the last…
A brutal, Rome-inspired fantasy with dual narration, An Ember in the Ashes is exactly the kind of story that either soars or collapses in audio, and Sabaa Tahir’s debut soars. So let’s get into the An Ember in the Ashes…
Picture an island that surfaces for only five nights a year: cobblestone lanes drowning in candy-colored fog, a shop that sells bottled wishes by the ounce, tunnels that quietly rearrange themselves beneath the streets while you sleep. Settle in for…
Legend is the rare dual-POV audiobook where the casting does half the storytelling for you, and it pulls the whole thing off. I’ve spent real hours with the Legend audiobook, so here is the verdict. I have listened to a…
Mr. What follows is my honest read on the One of Us Is Lying audiobook. Avery has just confiscated five phones that none of the students will admit to owning, and the afternoon is settling into the ordinary boredom of…
How much of what you remember actually happened, and how much did you quietly rebuild so you could keep going? Here’s what the We Were Liars audiobook is really like. That question is the engine of E. Lockhart’s We Were…
Lin-Manuel Miranda narrates this one like he is confiding a secret he has kept since he was fifteen, and that intimacy is exactly why the audiobook lands the way it does. That is the setup; now the Aristotle and Dante…
This one is for the listener who wants a love story with teeth — someone who likes their romance smart, funny, and unafraid to sit in the hard stuff. What follows is my honest read on the Fault in Our…