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The Living Blood by Tananarive Due

The Living Blood: Audiobook

Book 2 of the African Immortals series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Living Blood runs 25.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Peter Francis James (about 17.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

25.8listening hrs
Horrorstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 25.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Living Blood at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day52 days
1 hour / day26 days
2 hours / day13 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×18 days

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

What our data says

  • At 25.8 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 5,506 Horror audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on African Immortals

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 18.3 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 80.1 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1My Soul to Keep18.3 hrs
2The Living Blood25.8 hrs
3Blood Colony19.5 hrs
4My Soul to Take16.5 hrs

About as long, on the Horror shelf

35 Horror 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 Living Blood is book 2 of Tananarive Due's African Immortals series: a 25.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Peter Francis James, released April 22, 2011, on the Horror shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
25.8 hrs
Narrated by
Peter Francis James
Released
April 22, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Horror
Series
African Immortals #2
ISBN
9781461810162

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Living Blood as an audiobook?

The Living Blood runs 25.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 17.2 hours.

Is The Living Blood free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Living Blood?

The Living Blood is narrated by Peter Francis James.

Is The Living Blood worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 17.2 hours, saving 8.6 hours.