Very Bad Things: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Briarwood Academy series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Very Bad Things audiobook runs 8.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Sean Crisden and Emily Durante (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in – by –
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What our data says
- At 8.4 hours, it runs longer than 55% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Briarwood Academy
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 25.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very Bad Things | 8.4 hrs |
| 2 | Very Wicked Things | 10.4 hrs |
| 3 | Very Twisted Things | 6.7 hrs |
More narrated by Sean Crisden
Sean Crisden narrates 384 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,149 hours in all.
About as long, on the Modern shelf
3,306 Modern 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
Very Bad Things is book 1 of Ilsa Madden-Mills's Briarwood Academy series: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Sean Crisden and Emily Durante, released April 14, 2014, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Sean Crisden, Emily Durante
- Released
- April 14, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Modern, Fiction
- Series
- Briarwood Academy #1
- ISBN
- 9781494570705
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Very Bad Things audiobook?
Very Bad Things runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
Is the Very Bad Things audiobook free?
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Who narrates Very Bad Things?
Very Bad Things is narrated by Sean Crisden and Emily Durante.