Jessa Kane Audiobooks

Sacrificed to the Beast: fantasy romance at novella length

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.0/5 average

3 listener ratings

Who is Jessa Kane?

Sacrificed to the Beast belongs to one of the oldest patterns in storytelling, the offering made to something monstrous, and romance has been rewriting that pattern for as long as the genre has existed.

The entry listed under Jessa Kane here sits across fantasy, romance and science fiction at once, a triple shelving that is standard for books in which the beloved is not human. Three hours is the working length for the form: a single premise, taken at pace, without the connective tissue a full novel would be obliged to supply.

What the title declares is what we report. The rest belongs to the listener.

Jessa Kane in audiobooks

Samantha Brentmoor narrates the three hours, and in a novella the reading is not a garnish but a structural element. There is no time to recover from a delivery that misjudges the tone, and no room to build goodwill in reserve.

Only a handful of listener verdicts have been recorded so far, too few to build a case on in either direction. Books of this length are their own sample in any case: an hour in and you will know whether the register is one you enjoy, and if it is, the form is famously easy to keep going with.

Give it a try below and see how you get on.