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Shadow and Flame by Gail Z. Martin

Shadow and Flame: Audiobook

Book 4 of the Ascendant Kingdoms series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Shadow and Flame audiobook runs 21.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds (about 14.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

21.3listening hrs
Action & Adventure (Fiction)store shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 21.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish Shadow and Flame at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day43 days
1 hour / day22 days
2 hours / day11 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×15 days

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

What our data says

  • At 21.3 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Ascendant Kingdoms

This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 62.1 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 83.4 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Ice Forged19.6 hrs
2Reign of Ash20.8 hrs
3War of Shadows21.7 hrs
4Shadow and Flame21.3 hrs

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

171 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

Shadow and Flame is book 4 of Gail Z. Martin's Ascendant Kingdoms series: a 21.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds, released March 22, 2016, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Epic Fantasy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
21.3 hrs
Narrated by
Tim Gerard Reynolds
Released
March 22, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Fiction), Epic Fantasy, Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Series
Ascendant Kingdoms #4
ISBN
9781490615172

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Shadow and Flame audiobook?

Shadow and Flame runs 21.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 14.2 hours.

Is the Shadow and Flame audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Shadow and Flame?

Shadow and Flame is narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds.

Is Shadow and Flame worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 14.2 hours, saving 7.1 hours.