Listen to Your Sister

When listening to the audiobook version, how much weight do you give the text vs, the production? If you’re lucky, they will roughly match, so you don’t have to feel like one is dragging down the overall rating.

With Listen to Your Sister, I kept getting taken out of the story by the unexpected cadence and emphasis that didn’t always seem to match the message. I did like the choice to have different narrators for the siblings’ PoVs, but they were not equal in quality.

After listening to the audiobook, I read the ebook and did like it much better. I couldn’t really connect with the narrator, and I found there was more humor (and horror) when I was able to read in what I expected the pace and inflection would be to hit those notes hardest.

For the text, there were some really effective descriptions of horror, body horror in particular, and the core relationship- between the three orphaned siblings - felt very real, equal parts loving, loyal, and protective and antagonistic, dismissive, and cruel.

To use the yes, no, maybe vernacular, this is a yes* for me - with the * pointing to - I recommend the text version over than the audio if that’s an option for you.

Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and St. Martin’s Press for the advance copies in exchange for my honest review. Pub. date: 2/4/25

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