Elsie Silver Audiobooks

Powerless: contemporary romance with a listener following in six figures

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.3/5 average

108,356 listener ratings

Who is Elsie Silver?

A rating count in six figures is rare on any shelf, and it is the plainest thing that can be said about Elsie Silver here: Powerless has been listened to, and rated, by an enormous number of people. Numbers of that size are not a verdict on quality, but they do prove a book found its audience and held on to it.

It sits under the Chestnut Springs heading, which gathers a run of related romances rather than standing alone, so the title arrives with a world already built around it. Everything else worth knowing comes out of the writing itself: contemporary romance with a strong emotional centre, built for listeners who want the relationship rather than the setting to carry the book.

Elsie Silver in audiobooks

CJ Bloom narrates across ten hours and twenty-five minutes, and the pairing of performer and material is a large part of why this recording travels so well. Bloom moves between banter and bruise without letting either tip over into performance.

If Elsie Silver is new to you, this is the obvious entry point: it is by a wide margin the title listeners have engaged with most, and the score holds steady across that vast sample, which is harder to achieve than a high average across a few dozen votes. Have a look through the shelf below.