T.B. Markinson Audiobooks

Heartbeats: a long, tender LGBTQ+ novel carried by Lori Prince

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.7/5 average

40 listener ratings

Main genres

LGBTQ+

Who is T.B. Markinson?

A novel that runs past nineteen hours is making a promise about depth. Heartbeats is that kind of book, and T.B. Markinson tells it without hurrying, which is the only way a story of this length holds together.

The catalogue files it plainly under LGBTQ+ fiction, and the title supplies the rest: this is writing about attachment, its cost and its persistence. The length allows for the slow accumulation of small moments that gives a relationship on the page its weight, and for the sort of secondary characters a shorter book would have to sacrifice.

T.B. Markinson in audiobooks

Lori Prince narrates all nineteen hours and sixteen minutes, and continuity of voice counts for a great deal in a novel that lives on interiority. Heartbeats holds a 4.7 rating from a solid body of listener scores, a strong showing for long, character-driven fiction.

It stands alone, so there is no reading order to worry about. Set aside a fortnight of journeys, start at the beginning and let it work at its own pace. The audiobook is below.