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Fourth Wing Audiobook by Rebecca Yarros— narrated by Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton
Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing throws brittle-boned Violet Sorrengail into a war college where dragons incinerate the riders they refuse to carry, and her general mother has removed every exit. The romantasy phenomenon that launched the Empyrean series turns out to run on genuine tension: survival math first, slow-burning enemies-to-lovers second.
Why the audiobook wins
Fourth Wing runs on two narrators, Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton, splitting Violet Sorrengail's brittle survival math from Xaden Riorson's guarded menace, and the dual-cast setup does real work in a book built on enemies-to-lovers tension. Hearing their scenes performed as an actual back-and-forth, rather than one voice doing both sides, sharpens every standoff between them.
At over twenty-two hours, this is a serious commitment, but that length is where the audiobook earns its reputation: the war-college brutality, the dragon bonding, the slow thaw between Violet and Xaden, all of it gets room to build that a faster read might rush past. It's become one of the go-to long-haul listens for readers working through the whole Empyrean series back to back.
Soler and Hamilton's chemistry is a big part of why this book became the phenomenon it did on audio as much as on the page. Twenty-two hours is a lot to ask, but one credit covers the whole flight.
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- Who narrates the Fourth Wing audiobook?
- Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton narrate the audiobook edition of Fourth Wing.
- How long is the Fourth Wing audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 22 hr 2 min.
- Is the Fourth Wing audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored Fourth Wing 4.6 out of 5. Fourth Wing runs on two narrators, Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton, splitting Violet Sorrengail's brittle survival math from Xaden Riorson's guarded menace, and the dual-cast setup does real work in a book built on enemies-to-lovers tension. Hearing their scenes performed as an…
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- Eligible new Audible members can use a free-trial credit to listen in the Audible app. Eligibility and current offer terms are set by Audible.
