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The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks

The Broken Eye: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Lightbringer series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Broken Eye runs 29.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Vance (about 19.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

29.6listening hrs
Action & Adventure (Fiction)store shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 29.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Broken Eye at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day60 days
1 hour / day30 days
2 hours / day15 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×20 days

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What our data says

  • At 29.6 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Lightbringer

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 45.7 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 134.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Black Prism21.4 hrs
2The Blinding Knife24.2 hrs
3The Broken Eye29.6 hrs
4The Blood Mirror20.5 hrs
5The Burning White39.1 hrs

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

66 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

The Broken Eye is book 3 of Brent Weeks's Lightbringer series: a 29.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released August 26, 2014, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Epic Fantasy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
29.6 hrs
Narrated by
Simon Vance
Released
August 26, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Fiction), Epic Fantasy, Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Series
Lightbringer #3
ISBN
9781478953944

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Broken Eye as an audiobook?

The Broken Eye runs 29.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 19.7 hours.

Is The Broken Eye free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Broken Eye?

The Broken Eye is narrated by Simon Vance.

Is The Broken Eye worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 19.7 hours, saving 9.9 hours.