When Darkness Comes: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Guardians of Eternity series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the When Darkness Comes audiobook runs 9.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Arika Rapson (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.4 hours, it runs longer than 50% of the 7,781 Romantasy (Romance) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Guardians of Eternity
This is book 1. Books 1 to 15 run 146.9 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | When Darkness Comes | 9.4 hrs |
| 2 | Embrace the Darkness | 11 hrs |
| 3 | Darkness Everlasting | 11 hrs |
| 4 | Darkness Revealed | 11 hrs |
| 5 | Darkness Unleashed | 11 hrs |
| 6 | Beyond the Darkness | 10.2 hrs |
| 7 | Devoured by Darkness | 10.4 hrs |
| 8 | Bound by Darkness | 11 hrs |
| 9 | Fear the Darkness | 11.1 hrs |
| 10 | Darkness Avenged | 12 hrs |
| 11 | Hunt the Darkness | 9.5 hrs |
| 12 | When Darkness Ends | 9.5 hrs |
More narrated by Arika Rapson
Arika Rapson narrates 37 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 300 hours in all.
About as long, on the Romantasy (Romance) shelf
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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
When Darkness Comes is book 1 of Alexandra Ivy's Guardians of Eternity series: a 9.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Arika Rapson, released June 3, 2013, on the Romantasy (Romance) and Romantasy (Science Fiction & Fantasy) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Arika Rapson
- Released
- June 3, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Romantasy (Romance), Romantasy (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
- Series
- Guardians of Eternity #1
- ISBN
- 9781452683669
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the When Darkness Comes audiobook?
When Darkness Comes runs 9.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
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Who narrates When Darkness Comes?
When Darkness Comes is narrated by Arika Rapson.