2 readings
Marin Ireland
We hold 2 readings in this voice, on 4,311 ratings of the narration. Every one of them is rated by enough listeners for us to say where the reading stands. What follows is a record of recordings and not a verdict on a narrator. The stamp belongs to the book, the standing belongs to the reading, and neither of them belongs to Marin Ireland.
Earmark judges books and recordings, never narrators. A verdict says which format deserves your one and only first encounter with a book, so it belongs to the book; where a reading stands is a claim about one recording, measured against every other book on our shelf, and it belongs to that recording. Neither of those is a claim about a working life, so there is no score here for Marin Ireland and there is not going to be one. We also say nothing at all about a reading fewer than 250 people have rated. That bar is published on House Rules, and it is the same bar whether we would be praising a recording or criticising it.
Fredrik Backman
The reading we judged the book on · 2,081 ratings
- The reading sits in the middle of our shelf
- 40%In the middle 40% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.72Audible’s performance score, on 2,081 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.63Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 2.6%54 of 2,081 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.
Shelby Van Pelt · with Michael Urie
The reading we judged the book on · 2,230 ratings · Two voices
- The reading sits toward the bottom of our shelf
- 27%In the bottom 27% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.66Audible’s performance score, on 2,230 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.64Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 1.7%39 of 2,232 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Read it, decided with this reading in front of us.