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The Player & the Game by Shelly Ellis

The Player & the Game: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Gibbons Gold Digger series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Player & the Game runs 9.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Lisa Smith (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.4listening hrs
Contemporary Womenstore shelf
2013released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 9.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Player & the Game at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day19 days
1 hour / day10 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

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What our data says

  • At 9.4 hours, it is shorter than 54% of the 13,058 Contemporary Women audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Gibbons Gold Digger

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 10 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 40.5 hours in all.

About as long, on the Contemporary Women shelf

4,116 Contemporary Women 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 Player & the Game is book 2 of Shelly Ellis's Gibbons Gold Digger series: a 9.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Lisa Smith, released November 22, 2013, on the Contemporary Women and BIPOC Stories & Voices shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.4 hrs
Narrated by
Lisa Smith
Released
November 22, 2013
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Contemporary Women, BIPOC Stories & Voices
Series
Gibbons Gold Digger #2
ISBN
9781470379759

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Player & the Game as an audiobook?

The Player & the Game runs 9.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.

Is The Player & the Game free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Player & the Game?

The Player & the Game is narrated by Lisa Smith.