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The Calling by Kelley Armstrong

The Calling: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Darkness Rising series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Calling runs 7.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jennifer Ikeda (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.6listening hrs
Mystery & Fantasystore shelf
2012released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Calling at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 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 7.6 hours, it runs longer than 75% of the 7,923 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Darkness Rising

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 8.1 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 26.3 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Gathering8.1 hrs
2The Calling7.6 hrs
3The Rising10.6 hrs

More narrated by Jennifer Ikeda

Jennifer Ikeda narrates 96 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 996 hours in all.

All Jennifer Ikeda audiobooks, measured

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 Calling is book 2 of Kelley Armstrong's Darkness Rising series: a 7.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Jennifer Ikeda, released April 10, 2012, on the Mystery & Fantasy shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.6 hrs
Narrated by
Jennifer Ikeda
Released
April 10, 2012
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Mystery & Fantasy
Series
Darkness Rising #2
ISBN
9780062120793

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Calling as an audiobook?

The Calling runs 7.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.

Is The Calling free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Calling?

The Calling is narrated by Jennifer Ikeda.