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Dark Descendant by Jenna Black

Dark Descendant: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Nikki Glass series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dark Descendant audiobook runs 8.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Sophie Eastlake (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.7listening hrs
Fantasystore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Dark Descendant at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 8.7 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 12,109 Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Nikki Glass

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 27.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Dark Descendant8.7 hrs
2Deadly Descendant10 hrs
3Rogue Descendant9.1 hrs

About as long, on the Fantasy shelf

1,777 Fantasy 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

Dark Descendant is book 1 of Jenna Black's Nikki Glass series: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Sophie Eastlake, released December 30, 2011, on the Fantasy shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.7 hrs
Narrated by
Sophie Eastlake
Released
December 30, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fantasy
Series
Nikki Glass #1
ISBN
9781452675589

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Dark Descendant audiobook?

Dark Descendant runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.

Is the Dark Descendant audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Dark Descendant?

Dark Descendant is narrated by Sophie Eastlake.