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Cover of Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

Best Served Cold: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Best Served Cold audiobook runs 26.5 hours (about 17.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

26.5listening hrs
4.3★32 ratings
Fantasygenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 26.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Best Served Cold at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day53 days
1 hour / day27 days
2 hours / day14 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×18 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any of the 2,187 audiobooks we measure.

What our data says

  • At 26.5 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 137% longer than the average fantasy audiobook (11.2 hrs across 1862 titles in our dataset).

Computed from fantasy audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ). Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for fantasy listeners who want epic quests: a long-haul epic at 26.5 hours.

About the book

The epic first book in the World of the First Law trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Red Country and The Blade Itself . "The battles are vivid and visceral, the action brutal, the pace headlong, and Abercrombie piles the betrayals, reversals, and plot twists one atop another to keep us guessing how it will all come out. This is his best book yet." —George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, and behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Best Served Cold audiobook?

Best Served Cold runs 26.5 hours. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 17.7 hours.

Is the Best Served Cold audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Is Best Served Cold worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 17.7 hours, saving 8.8 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was Best Served Cold first published?

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie was first published in 2009.