Alyssa Roat Audiobooks

Wraithwood: Arthurian magic and a mansion full of trouble, for teenage listeners

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

203 listener ratings

Who is Alyssa Roat?

Fantasy written for teenage readers asks for a steady hand: enough danger to matter, enough warmth to come back to. Alyssa Roat holds that balance in Wraithwood, taking an inheritance plot, an old house and a seam of Arthurian legend and turning them into something with real teeth.

Her instincts are novelistic rather than merely fantastical. The magic arrives with rules and consequences, the adults are not simply obstacles, and the peril is allowed to be frightening. Young adult listeners get a book that respects them, while adult listeners get one that never feels like a compromise. It is the sort of storytelling that has kept this corner of the genre healthy.

Alyssa Roat in audiobooks

Katie Marchant narrates, and her reading is a large part of why the book works so well in audio. She gives the younger characters energy without shrillness and lets the older, stranger voices in the house do their own unsettling work across nearly twelve hours.

Wraithwood opens a trilogy, so it is the obvious place to begin, and it has drawn one of the strongest listener responses anywhere in this part of our shelves. Settle in for a long weekend and let the house reveal itself. Browse the audiobooks below to make a start.