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The Shadow Hour by Melissa Grey

The Shadow Hour: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Girl at Midnight series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Shadow Hour runs 11.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Julia Whelan (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.9listening hrs
Romance (Teen & YA)store shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.9 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Shadow Hour at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day24 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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

What our data says

  • At 11.9 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 4,186 Romance (Teen & YA) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Girl at Midnight

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.9 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 35.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Girl at Midnight9.9 hrs
2The Shadow Hour11.9 hrs
3The Savage Dawn13.4 hrs

More narrated by Julia Whelan

Julia Whelan narrates 408 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,883 hours in all.

All Julia Whelan audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Romance (Teen & YA) shelf

726 Romance (Teen & YA) 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 Shadow Hour is book 2 of Melissa Grey's Girl at Midnight series: a 11.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Julia Whelan, released July 12, 2016, on the Romance (Teen & YA) and Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.9 hrs
Narrated by
Julia Whelan
Released
July 12, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Romance (Teen & YA), Fairy Tales & Folklore (Teen & YA), Action & Adventure (Teen & YA)
Series
The Girl at Midnight #2
ISBN
9780399569197

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Shadow Hour as an audiobook?

The Shadow Hour runs 11.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.

Is The Shadow Hour free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Shadow Hour?

The Shadow Hour is narrated by Julia Whelan.

Is The Shadow Hour worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 4 hours.