Once We Were: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Hybrid Chronicles series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Once We Were audiobook runs 9 hours unabridged, narrated by Kim Mai Guest (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 96% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Hybrid Chronicles
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.6 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 27.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What's Left of Me | 9.6 hrs |
| 2 | Once We Were | 9 hrs |
| 3 | Echoes of Us | 8.5 hrs |
More narrated by Kim Mai Guest
Kim Mai Guest narrates 116 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,139 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf
565 Non-fiction (Kids) 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
Once We Were is book 2 of Kat Zhang's Hybrid Chronicles series: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by Kim Mai Guest, released September 17, 2013, on the Mystery & Fantasy and Non-fiction (Kids) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Kim Mai Guest
- Released
- September 17, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery & Fantasy, Non-fiction (Kids)
- Series
- Hybrid Chronicles #2
- ISBN
- 9780062280381
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Once We Were audiobook?
Once We Were runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is the Once We Were audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Once We Were?
Once We Were is narrated by Kim Mai Guest.