A Time of Dread: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Of Blood & Bone series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Time of Dread runs 15.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Damian Lynch (about 10.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 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 15.5 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Of Blood & Bone
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 53 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Time of Dread | 15.5 hrs |
| 2 | A Time of Blood | 15.5 hrs |
| 3 | A Time of Courage | 22 hrs |
More narrated by Damian Lynch
Damian Lynch narrates 68 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 939 hours in all.
About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf
461 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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 Time of Dread is book 1 of John Gwynne's Of Blood & Bone series: a 15.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Damian Lynch, released February 20, 2018, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Epic Fantasy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Damian Lynch
- Released
- February 20, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Action & Adventure (Fiction), Epic Fantasy, Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
- Series
- Of Blood & Bone #1
- ISBN
- 9781549167461
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Time of Dread as an audiobook?
A Time of Dread runs 15.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.3 hours.
Is A Time of Dread free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Time of Dread?
A Time of Dread is narrated by Damian Lynch.
Is A Time of Dread worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.3 hours, saving 5.2 hours.