Crea Reitan Audiobooks

Doink: a short, sharp LGBTQ+ listen that fits into a single afternoon

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

46 listener ratings

Main genres

LGBTQ+

Who is Crea Reitan?

Two and a half hours is an unusual length for fiction, and it tells you something about how Crea Reitan works. Doink is short enough to finish in an afternoon and confident enough not to pad. Brevity of that sort is a choice rather than a shortfall.

The book sits on our LGBTQ+ shelf, and compression suits queer contemporary fiction rather well. Character is established quickly, feeling takes priority over plot architecture, and the ending arrives before anything has a chance to sag. Listeners have taken to it warmly, rating it 4.5, which for a piece this compact suggests the emotional work genuinely lands.

Crea Reitan in audiobooks

Doink is narrated by Alexander Cendese, and a single-sitting story asks a great deal of its reader. There is no time to grow on a listener, so the voice has to convince inside the first minute. Cendese does.

This is the natural place to begin, and an easy recommendation for anyone wanting something warm and queer for a train journey or a long bath rather than a fortnight’s commitment. The audiobook is just below.