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Half A War by Joe Abercrombie

Half A War: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Shattered Sea series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Half A War audiobook runs 13.5 hours unabridged, narrated by John Keating (about 9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

13.5listening hrs
Action & Adventure (Fiction)store shelf
2015released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 13.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Half A War at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day27 days
1 hour / day14 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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

What our data says

  • At 13.5 hours, it runs longer than 84% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Shattered Sea

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 22.4 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 35.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Half a King9.3 hrs
2Half the World13.1 hrs
3Half A War13.5 hrs

About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf

722 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2015 recording read by Ben Elliot runs 1.3 hours shorter (12.2 hours).

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

Half A War is book 3 of Joe Abercrombie's Shattered Sea series: a 13.5-hour unabridged recording, read by John Keating, released July 28, 2015, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Epic Fantasy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
13.5 hrs
Narrated by
John Keating
Released
July 28, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Fiction), Epic Fantasy
Series
Shattered Sea #3
ISBN
9781490684123

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Half A War audiobook?

Half A War runs 13.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9 hours.

Is the Half A War audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Half A War?

Half A War is narrated by John Keating.

Is Half A War worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9 hours, saving 4.5 hours.