Morgan Lysand Audiobooks

Mate Mishaps: a comic queer romance with a knack for going wrong

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

47 listener ratings

Who is Morgan Lysand?

Comedy is the riskiest register in romance, which makes the title Morgan Lysand chose a statement of intent. Mate Mishaps promises things going wrong, repeatedly and on purpose, and anyone picking it up is being told in advance not to expect a story that takes itself entirely seriously.

Our catalogue files it under romance and LGBTQ+. That combination has grown into one of the liveliest corners of audio, partly because it rewards exactly the kind of writing this title advertises: banter, timing, and characters allowed to be ridiculous without forfeiting a reader’s affection. Seven hours and twenty minutes is a well-judged length for it, long enough to earn an ending and short enough that the jokes never start to wear.

Morgan Lysand in audiobooks

A joke on the page can be reread; in audio it gets exactly one pass, at whatever speed the narrator sets. That makes the timing Avery Wilde‘s responsibility as much as the author’s, and comic romance really does live or die on it.

The score sits comfortably above four across a modest but genuine spread of verdicts, enough to suggest the humour is landing for the audience it was written for. Start here, since this is where Lysand enters our shelves, and give it an evening rather than a fortnight; it is built for a single sitting. The listing below carries the running time and the current rating.