Melissa Good Audiobooks

Tropical Storm: sapphic romance on an epic scale, read by Elisabeth Ashby

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

297 listener ratings

Who is Melissa Good?

Twenty-seven hours is a serious proposition, and Tropical Storm asks for every one of them. Shelved with romance and LGBTQ+ fiction, it belongs to the Dar and Kerry sequence, and it is written at a length usually reserved for epic fantasy rather than for love stories.

That scale is the signature. Listeners who prefer a relationship built slowly, in accumulated detail rather than sudden declaration, are the natural audience here, and there are plenty of them: the recording has drawn several hundred ratings and held a score comfortably above four and a half stars.

Melissa Good’s page rests on the work rather than on a documented life, which is how we prefer to handle a byline we cannot verify. The reception makes the case well enough on its own.

Melissa Good in audiobooks

Elisabeth Ashby narrates, carrying a cast and a running time that would defeat a less patient reader. On a listen this long the voice matters more than usual, and the reception suggests the pairing works.

This is the entry point our shelves offer into the Dar and Kerry sequence, and it is best treated as a season rather than an evening. Start it when you have a stretch of listening ahead of you; it rewards being lived with.

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