A Bright and Terrible Sword: Audiobook
Book 3 of the Soulvine Moor Chronicles series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Bright and Terrible Sword runs 9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Vance (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 7,923 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Soulvine Moor Chronicles
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 20 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 29 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crossing Over | 9.6 hrs |
| 2 | Dark Mist Rising | 10.5 hrs |
| 3 | A Bright and Terrible Sword | 9 hrs |
More narrated by Simon Vance
Simon Vance narrates 793 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 8,393 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Mystery & Fantasy shelf
801 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The False Prince (The Ascendance Series, Book 1)
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Bright and Terrible Sword is book 3 of Anna Kendall's Soulvine Moor Chronicles series: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released September 13, 2012, on the Mystery & Fantasy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- September 13, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery & Fantasy
- Series
- The Soulvine Moor Chronicles #3
- ISBN
- 9781481589208
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Bright and Terrible Sword as an audiobook?
A Bright and Terrible Sword runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is A Bright and Terrible Sword free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates A Bright and Terrible Sword?
A Bright and Terrible Sword is narrated by Simon Vance.