The Heart of Matter: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Odyssey One series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Heart of Matter runs 14.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David De Vries (about 9.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 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 14.4 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 2,721 Space Opera audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Odyssey One
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 15 hours before it; books 1 to 7 run 79.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into the Black | 15 hrs |
| 2 | The Heart of Matter | 14.4 hrs |
| 3 | Homeworld | 11.8 hrs |
| 4 | Out of the Black | 11.3 hrs |
| 5 | Warrior King | 9.2 hrs |
| 6 | Odysseus Awakening | 8.9 hrs |
| 7 | Odysseus Ascendant | 8.6 hrs |
More narrated by David De Vries
David De Vries narrates 232 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,355 hours in all.
About as long, on the Space Opera shelf
328 Space Opera audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Star Wars Legends: Darth Plagueis
- Star Wars: Thrawn: Alliances
- Speaker for the Dead
- Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason
- Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising: Book I
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 Heart of Matter is book 2 of Evan Currie's Odyssey One series: a 14.4-hour unabridged recording, read by David De Vries, released April 16, 2019, on the Space Opera shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- David De Vries
- Released
- April 16, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Space Opera
- Series
- Odyssey One #2
- ISBN
- 9781978669550
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Heart of Matter as an audiobook?
The Heart of Matter runs 14.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.6 hours.
Is The Heart of Matter free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Heart of Matter?
The Heart of Matter is narrated by David De Vries.
Is The Heart of Matter worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.6 hours, saving 4.8 hours.