Neil Sater Audiobooks

The Ungodly: young adult fiction with a title that sets the stakes early

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

5 listener ratings

Who is Neil Sater?

Titles that borrow from scripture carry a charge that is hard to fake, and The Ungodly makes full use of it. The word implies a judgement already passed, a line drawn between those inside and those out, and Neil Sater has placed it where a young adult audience will meet it first.

That shelf matters. Our catalogue files the work under teen and young adult, a category that has spent two decades proving it can carry serious moral weight without losing its readership, and titles with this kind of edge are part of the reason. Six and a half hours is well judged for the audience: substantial enough to build a world, short enough to be finished before the momentum goes.

Neil Sater in audiobooks

Brandi Baelfire takes the narration. Young adult audio comes with a particular demand attached, since the voice has to sound plausible to listeners who will spot a performed teenager within a paragraph, and getting that register right is most of the job.

Early scores are strong, though only a handful of verdicts have been recorded so far, so treat the figure as promising rather than proven. This is where Sater appears on our shelves, so the starting point chooses itself. Six and a half hours is an easy commitment to make on a name you are curious about rather than certain of. The listing below has the running time and current rating.