
The River Has Roots
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed

Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Buy for $8.46
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Gem Carmella
-
By:
-
Amal El-Mohtar
About this listen
The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.
This program features music performed by the author and her sister, Dounya El-Mohtar with Amal and Dounya on harp, flute, and vocals; and songs sung by the narrator, Gem Carmella. It also includes the short story "John Hollowback and the Witch," from the author's upcoming collection.
"Half delicious murder ballad, half beguiling love story."—Holly Black • "An absolute must-read."—T. Kingfisher • "Every sentence sings!"—Sarah Beth Durst • "Utterly enchanting."—Fonda Lee • "A story that outlasts itself."—Alix E. Harrow • "Truly exquisite."—Zoraida Córdova • "A beautiful, musical, and loving story."—Emma Törzs
“Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.”
In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family.
There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees.
But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk…
“Musical effects combine with Carmella’s singing at key moments…A stunning performance.”—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
©2025 Amal El-Mohtar (P)2025 Macmillan AudioListeners also enjoyed...
-
The Knight and the Butcherbird
- A Short Story
- By: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.
-
-
Alix E Harrow is one of my favorite authors
- By Leilani on 04-17-25
By: Alix E. Harrow
-
This Is How You Lose the Time War
- By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
-
-
Flowery poetic word salad
- By Austin on 02-11-20
By: Amal El-Mohtar, and others
-
Murder by Memory
- By: Olivia Waite
- Narrated by: Blair Baker
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
-
-
Short but lovely
- By FloNo on 05-14-25
By: Olivia Waite
-
A Sorceress Comes to Call
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers.
-
-
Brilliantly creepy
- By Joella Berkner on 08-14-24
By: T. Kingfisher
-
The Drowned Woods
- By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After discovering what he had done, Mer went to great lengths to disappear from his reach. Then Mer’s old handler returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both.
-
-
Hang in there..
- By Trice on 09-25-23
-
The Last Hour Between Worlds
- By: Melissa Caruso
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Kembral Thorne has a few hours away from her newborn, and she’s determined to enjoy herself at the year-turning ball. But when guests start dropping dead, she can’t help sniffing out trouble—she’s a Hound, after all. Especially when her professional and personal nemesis, notorious burglar Rika Nonesuch, is also on the prowl. Everyone knows you shouldn’t get involved with Echo games. Let alone one involving ancient Echo lords who can turn layers of reality into a gameboard with human lives for pieces. But as the ballroom grows stranger and more otherworldly, it’s clearly too late.
-
-
Just Incredible
- By Gloria on 02-01-25
By: Melissa Caruso
-
The Knight and the Butcherbird
- A Short Story
- By: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.
-
-
Alix E Harrow is one of my favorite authors
- By Leilani on 04-17-25
By: Alix E. Harrow
-
This Is How You Lose the Time War
- By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
-
-
Flowery poetic word salad
- By Austin on 02-11-20
By: Amal El-Mohtar, and others
-
Murder by Memory
- By: Olivia Waite
- Narrated by: Blair Baker
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
-
-
Short but lovely
- By FloNo on 05-14-25
By: Olivia Waite
-
A Sorceress Comes to Call
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers.
-
-
Brilliantly creepy
- By Joella Berkner on 08-14-24
By: T. Kingfisher
-
The Drowned Woods
- By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After discovering what he had done, Mer went to great lengths to disappear from his reach. Then Mer’s old handler returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both.
-
-
Hang in there..
- By Trice on 09-25-23
-
The Last Hour Between Worlds
- By: Melissa Caruso
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Kembral Thorne has a few hours away from her newborn, and she’s determined to enjoy herself at the year-turning ball. But when guests start dropping dead, she can’t help sniffing out trouble—she’s a Hound, after all. Especially when her professional and personal nemesis, notorious burglar Rika Nonesuch, is also on the prowl. Everyone knows you shouldn’t get involved with Echo games. Let alone one involving ancient Echo lords who can turn layers of reality into a gameboard with human lives for pieces. But as the ballroom grows stranger and more otherworldly, it’s clearly too late.
-
-
Just Incredible
- By Gloria on 02-01-25
By: Melissa Caruso
-
A Harvest of Hearts
- By: Andrea Eames
- Narrated by: Jessie Elland
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Everyone in Foss Butcher’s village knows what happens when the magic-workers come; they harvest human hearts to use in their spells. That’s just how life in her kingdom works. But Foss, plain, clumsy, and practical as a boot, never expected anyone would want hers. When a sorcerer snags a piece of Foss’s heart without meaning to, she is furious. For once a heart is snagged, the experience is . . . well, unpleasant. So, Foss finds herself stomping toward the grand City to keep his enchanted House and demands that he fixes her before she keels over and dies.
-
-
It was good!
- By Christine on 05-16-25
By: Andrea Eames
-
Private Rites
- A Novel
- By: Julia Armfield
- Narrated by: Hannah van der Westhuysen
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.
-
-
Beautifully Written, But Mainly Fluff and Filler
- By Megs on 02-26-25
By: Julia Armfield
-
The Six Deaths of the Saint
- Into Shadow collection
- By: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s greatest warrior in this short story of love and loyalty by New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow.
-
-
Mind-blowing!!!
- By Anonymous User on 05-18-24
By: Alix E. Harrow
-
Certain Dark Things
- A Novel
- By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized.
-
-
Pretty good
- By Zachary on 09-27-21
-
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
- Singing Hills Cycle, Book 1
- By: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
-
-
I feel like I’m not smart enough to understand why this is supposed to be so great
- By J. Angel on 08-06-20
By: Nghi Vo
-
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
- A Novel
- By: Emma Törzs
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother, and Joanna’s isolated herself in their family home in Vermont, devoting her life to the study of these cherished volumes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy.
-
-
The most difficult audiobook I've ever listened 2
- By John on 06-04-23
By: Emma Törzs
-
North Is the Night
- The Tuonela Duet, Book 1
- By: Emily Rath
- Narrated by: Khaya Fraites, Emily Lawrence
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the depths of the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark woods. When a death goddess attacks their village, best friends Siiri and Aina prove helpless to stop her from dragging Aina into Tuonela, the mythical underworld. Determined to save her beloved Aina, Siiri braves a dangerous journey north, seeking help from the greatest shaman of legend—the only person ever to venture into Tuonela and return alive. There’s only one problem … the stories say he’s dead. In Tuonela, the cruel Witch Queen turns Aina’s every waking moment into a living nightmare.
-
-
It could have been so much more!
- By Loriel Boemer on 04-06-25
By: Emily Rath
-
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door
- By: H. G. Parry
- Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Camford, 1920. Gilded and glittering, England's secret magical academy is no place for Clover, a commoner with neither connections nor magical blood. She tells herself she has fought her way there only to find a cure for her brother Matthew, one of the few survivors of a faerie attack on the battlefields of WWI which left the doors to faerie country sealed, the study of its magic banned, and its victims cursed.
-
-
If your kink is self-imposed guilt trips
- By Anonymous User on 02-08-25
By: H. G. Parry
-
A Song to Drown Rivers
- A Novel
- By: Ann Liang
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Xishi’s beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue—convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor, Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighboring kingdom of Wu, improve the lives of her people, and avenge her sister’s murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy, seduce their immoral king, and weaken them from within.
-
-
Impactful story
- By Survivor T on 10-26-24
By: Ann Liang
-
Light from Uncommon Stars
- By: Ryka Aoki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: To escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four.
-
-
Awesome with a few hitches.
- By Levi Fay on 10-01-21
By: Ryka Aoki
-
The Jasmine Throne
- By: Tasha Suri
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Exiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while imprisoned in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin. The secrets of the Hirana call to Priya. But in order to keep the truth of her past safely hidden, she works as a servant in the loathed regent’s household, biting her tongue and cleaning Malini’s chambers.
-
-
I had to stop
- By Evanlee on 07-11-21
By: Tasha Suri
-
Ithaca
- By: Claire North
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne—not yet.
-
-
I wanted to love this so much!
- By LiburConi on 09-11-22
By: Claire North
Critic reviews
"Half delicious murder ballad, half beguiling love story, Amal El-Mohtar transports us to Faerieland so seamlessly it seems as though she just stepped out of it."—Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"El-Mohtar’s solo debut (after cowriting This Is How You Lose the Time War with Max Gladstone) is a heart-wrenching fairy tale about the bonds of love and family. It’s a murder ballad in book form that will linger long after the final page is turned."—Library Journal, starred review
"El-Mohtar’s ethereal prose paints a clear picture of the unbreakable bond between her worthy heroines."—Publisher's Weekly
Editorial Review
People who viewed this also viewed...
-
This Is How You Lose the Time War
- By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
-
-
Flowery poetic word salad
- By Austin on 02-11-20
By: Amal El-Mohtar, and others
-
Greenteeth
- By: Molly O'Neill
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce. Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she's worth saving. Temperance doesn't know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny's lake and Temperance's family, as well as the very soul of Britain.
-
-
Great read
- By LOVE AMAZON on 05-29-25
By: Molly O'Neill
-
Seasons of Glass and Iron
- Stories
- By: Amal El-Mohtar
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar. With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.
By: Amal El-Mohtar
-
Our Infinite Fates
- A Novel
- By: Laura Steven
- Narrated by: Sofia Oxenham
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being linked to her soul. The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life before they find her first, figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse, and try not to fall in love . . . again.
-
-
The idea and concept is a 10 for 10
- By Anonymous User on 05-23-25
By: Laura Steven
-
The Unworthy
- A Novel
- By: Agustina Bazterrica
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
-
-
The detail
- By Alexandra on 05-25-25
-
Once Was Willem
- By: M. R. Carey
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I, Once Was Willem, rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham. The words enclosed herein are true. I speak of monsters and magic, battle and bloodletting, and the crimes of desperate men. I speak also of secret things, of that which lies beneath us and that which impends above.
-
-
3.5 Stars
- By Chuck on 05-28-25
By: M. R. Carey
-
This Is How You Lose the Time War
- By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
-
-
Flowery poetic word salad
- By Austin on 02-11-20
By: Amal El-Mohtar, and others
-
Greenteeth
- By: Molly O'Neill
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce. Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she's worth saving. Temperance doesn't know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny's lake and Temperance's family, as well as the very soul of Britain.
-
-
Great read
- By LOVE AMAZON on 05-29-25
By: Molly O'Neill
-
Seasons of Glass and Iron
- Stories
- By: Amal El-Mohtar
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar. With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.
By: Amal El-Mohtar
-
Our Infinite Fates
- A Novel
- By: Laura Steven
- Narrated by: Sofia Oxenham
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being linked to her soul. The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life before they find her first, figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse, and try not to fall in love . . . again.
-
-
The idea and concept is a 10 for 10
- By Anonymous User on 05-23-25
By: Laura Steven
-
The Unworthy
- A Novel
- By: Agustina Bazterrica
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
-
-
The detail
- By Alexandra on 05-25-25
-
Once Was Willem
- By: M. R. Carey
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I, Once Was Willem, rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham. The words enclosed herein are true. I speak of monsters and magic, battle and bloodletting, and the crimes of desperate men. I speak also of secret things, of that which lies beneath us and that which impends above.
-
-
3.5 Stars
- By Chuck on 05-28-25
By: M. R. Carey
-
A Gentleman's Gentleman
- A Novel
- By: TJ Alexander
- Narrated by: Harrison Knights
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits: he prefers to live far from the prying eyes and ears of the ton, and would rather have the comfortable company of his childhood cook and his aged butler than the swarm of servants and hangers-on befitting a man of his station. But Christopher’s pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season if he intends to keep his family’s fortune and the Eden estate.
-
-
Beautifully written
- By Beverley on 04-02-25
By: TJ Alexander
-
Lightfall: Book One of The Everlands
- The Everlands Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Ed Crocker
- Narrated by: Shakira Shute
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For centuries, vampires freely roamed the land until the Grays came out of nowhere, wiping out half the population in a night. The survivors fled to the last vampire city of First Light, where the rules are simple. If you’re poor, you drink weak blood. If you’re nobility, you get the good stuff. And you can never, ever leave. Palace maid Sam has had enough of these rules, and she’s definitely had enough of cleaning the bedpans of the lords who enforce them. When the son of the city’s ruler is murdered, she seizes the chance to blackmail her way into a better class and better blood.
-
-
Wow
- By SinnaPomme on 01-21-25
By: Ed Crocker
-
Wild Dark Shore
- A Novel
- By: Charlotte McConaghy
- Narrated by: Cooper Mortlock, Katherine Littrell, Saskia Maarleveld, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
-
-
Good, but not awesome.
- By Shannon on 05-03-25
-
Blob
- A Love Story
- By: Maggie Su
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The daughter of a Taiwanese father and white mother, Vi Liu has never quite fit into her Midwestern college town. Aimless after getting dumped by her boyfriend and dropping out of college, Vi works at the front desk of a hotel where she greets guests, refills cucumber water samovars, and tries to evade her bubbly blond coworker, Rachel. Little does Vi know her life is about to be permanently transformed when she agrees to a night out with Rachel. In the alley outside the bar, Vi discovers a strange blob—a small living creature with beady black eyes.
-
-
really different
- By Jeannie Bench on 02-24-25
By: Maggie Su
-
What Wakes the Bells
- By: Elle Tesch
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Built by long-gone Saints, the city of Vaiwyn lives and breathes and bleeds. As a Keeper, Mina knows better than most what her care of Vaiwyn’s bells means for the sentient city. It’s the Strauss family’s thousand-year legacy—prevent the Vespers from ringing, or they will awake a slumbering evil. One afternoon, to Mina's horror, her bell peals thirteen times, shattering the city’s tenuous peace. With so much of the city's history and lore lost in a long-ago disaster, no one knows the danger that has been unleashed—until the city begins to fight back.
By: Elle Tesch
-
Retreat
- A Novel
- By: Krysten Ritter
- Narrated by: Krysten Ritter
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease of a tropical breeze; she’s clever, smooth, and confident—qualities that make her a brilliant serial con artist. Isabelle Beresford is strikingly beautiful, obscenely wealthy, and the new owner of Casa Esmerelda, a fabulous villa on the Mexican coast—attributes that make her the perfect mark. When she offers Liz a job handling the installation of a piece of art in her otherwise vacant home, Liz can’t resist the allure of a beach retreat. But when Liz is mistaken for Isabelle herself, Liz can’t help slipping into the socialite’s identity.
-
-
Well worth your time and money
- By Kim W. on 04-20-25
By: Krysten Ritter
-
Nothing Serious
- A Novel
- By: Emily J. Smith
- Narrated by: Anna Caputo
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Edie Walker’s life is not going as planned. At thirty-five, she feels stuck: in her career, in her love life, and in her tiny San Francisco studio apartment. It doesn’t help that her best friend, Peter Masterson, is basically the über successful male version of her—and she’s hopelessly, unrequitedly in love with him. But when Peter breaks up with his girlfriend of seven years, Edie thinks her life might finally be turning around. He’ll discover how toxic dating app culture is and realize that Edie has been right for him all along.
-
-
Character development
- By Jason M. on 03-18-25
By: Emily J. Smith
-
Liquid
- A Love Story
- By: Mariam Rahmani
- Narrated by: Mariam Rahmani
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The unnamed Iranian-Indian American narrator of Liquid has always believed herself to be the smartest person in the room. And from an early age, she and her best friend—a poet-turned-marketer named Adam—have turned their noses up at other peoples’ riches. But two years after earning a PhD from UCLA, the narrator is no closer to the middle-class comfort promised to her by the prestige of her fancy, scholarship-funded education and the successes of her immigrant parents. Jokingly, Adam suggests she just "marry rich."
-
-
Funny, complex page-turner!
- By Sarah F on 05-14-25
By: Mariam Rahmani
-
Murder by Memory
- By: Olivia Waite
- Narrated by: Blair Baker
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
-
-
Short but lovely
- By FloNo on 05-14-25
By: Olivia Waite
-
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.
-
-
Buyer's Remorse
- By Amy on 03-31-25
By: John Scalzi
-
Tin Heart
- A Novel
- By: Shivaun Plozza
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second chance at life, all she wants to do is to thank her donor’s family. Maybe then she can move on. Maybe then she’ll discover who she is if she’s no longer "The Dying Girl". But with a little brother who dresses like every day is Halloween, a vegan warrior for a mother, and an all-out war with the hot butcher’s apprentice next door, Marlowe’s life is already pretty complicated. And her second chance is about to take an unexpected turn....
By: Shivaun Plozza
-
Ravensong
- Ravensong, Book 1
- By: Cayla Fay
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Neve has spent lifetimes defending the mortal world against the legions of hell with her two sisters. Unfortunately for Neve, in this lifetime, she is the only one of the Morrigan—a triad of Irish war gods—still stuck in high school and still without her full power. She's been counting down the days until her eighteenth birthday, when she finally gets to shed the pretenses of humanity and grow into her divine power.
-
-
I LOVED THIS!!! READ IT!!!
- By Dandelioness on 07-29-23
By: Cayla Fay
Fantastic production!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
truly beautiful
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It’s a very short novella (133 pages in print or 3 hours and 53 minutes in audio) and is written by the author of one of my favorite books, “This is How You Lose the Time War” (Amal El-Mohtar co-wrote it with Max Gladstone). Her new book has the same ethereal writing style as Time War.
It’s a fairy tale about two sisters who care for and harvest enchanted willow trees and they thank the trees for their magic by singing to them. One of the sisters is a lesbian who falls for a non binary fae, but the story is centered more about the connections between sisters.
“The River Has Roots” is a poetic and lyrical fairy tale wrapped in folk songs. What makes the audio version special though is that it’s a book whose themes are sisterly bonds and the audiobook has background music which is performed by the author and her sister. The narrator, Gem Carmella also sings the songs.
“The River Has Roots” is a beautifully written fairy tale and I do recommend listening to the audio version. The narration is excellent.
Poetic and Lyrical Fairy Tale
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A balm for the soul
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A lovely retelling of an old folk song
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Rich and lush and ode to language and love
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Poetry and murder
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This story marked me in the best way possible.
Narrative poetry
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Really excellent!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
These are lovely modern fairytales!
Great performance, beautiful fairytale
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.