Jonathan Brooks Audiobooks

Earthen Contenders: a three-book fantasy omnibus running past forty-five hours

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Jonathan Brooks?

Forty-five hours is not an evening’s listening, it is a season of it. Jonathan Brooks appears in our catalogue with the Earthen Contenders Collection, Books 1-3, three volumes bound into a single recording and shelved across fantasy, general fiction and science fiction at once.

That combination of scale and cross-shelving is characteristic of a particular strand of modern genre writing: worlds built on systems and progression, where much of the pleasure comes from watching rules established and then exploited. Books like these ask for commitment and repay it with immersion, and gathering the opening three into one collection signals that they were meant to be taken together rather than sampled.

Jonathan Brooks in audiobooks

Miles Meili narrates the whole collection, which for long-form series fiction is a genuine advantage: one voice across the collected instalments keeps the characters consistent as the world expands around them.

Start at the beginning and pace yourself. Forty-five hours across three volumes is a serious investment, though it works out at a fortnight of long walks or a couple of months of ordinary commuting. No listener verdicts have arrived yet, so the collection stands on its scope for now. Take it from the listing below.