Joe Arden Audiobooks

Grim: The Lost Souls Chronicles, where crime fiction meets dark romance

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

1 listener rating

Who is Joe Arden?

One syllable, no subtitle, no softening: Grim is the kind of title that fixes the temperature before anything else happens. The catalogue attaches it to The Lost Souls Chronicles, and Joe Arden reaches our shelves through it, filed at once under crime and thriller, general fiction and romance.

That triple shelving is worth pausing on, because it describes the book more accurately than any single label could. Romance with a body count, or crime with a heart at stake, depending on which end you approach it from. Eleven and a half hours gives both halves the space they need, which is usually the difference between a genuine hybrid and a thriller with a love interest bolted on afterwards.

Joe Arden in audiobooks

Maxine Mitchell takes the narration for a listen of real length, and books that run this long in mixed genre territory tend to live or die on a narrator holding two registers at once, the menace and the tenderness.

This one is a scheduled arrival rather than something to begin tonight, so consider it noted and come back for it. No listener verdicts have gathered yet, which means the first people through will be forming the consensus rather than following it. Details of what is coming are set out below.