The Queen's Bastard: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Inheritors' Cycle series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Queen's Bastard runs 15.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Beverley A. Crick (about 10.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 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 15.5 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 12,109 Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Inheritors' Cycle
This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 34.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Queen's Bastard | 15.5 hrs |
| 2 | The Pretender's Crown | 18.9 hrs |
More narrated by Beverley A. Crick
Beverley A. Crick narrates 141 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,349 hours in all.
About as long, on the Fantasy shelf
898 Fantasy 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 Queen's Bastard is book 1 of C. E. Murphy's Inheritors' Cycle series: a 15.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Beverley A. Crick, released March 3, 2015, on the Fantasy and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Beverley A. Crick
- Released
- March 3, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fantasy, Fiction
- Series
- Inheritors' Cycle #1
- ISBN
- 9781494580155
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Queen's Bastard as an audiobook?
The Queen's Bastard runs 15.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.3 hours.
Is The Queen's Bastard free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Queen's Bastard?
The Queen's Bastard is narrated by Beverley A. Crick.
Is The Queen's Bastard worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.3 hours, saving 5.2 hours.