Audiobooks Like Children of Virtue and Vengeance

10 audiobooks for fans of Children of Virtue and Vengeance

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   City of Ghosts

   Downside Ghosts • Book 3

   by Stacia Kane

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.20 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.22 Goodreads (9.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (937)

   13h 15m listening time • Released 2010

   Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this gritty urban fantasy into something genuinely haunting—her voice captures Chess's paranoia and defiance so completely you'll forget you're listening to a book.

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   Unholy Magic

   Downside Ghosts • Book 2

   by Stacia Kane

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.04 ABR Score (11.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.07 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.47 Audible (1.0K)

   10h 57m listening time • Released 2010

   Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this dark urban fantasy into something visceral and unputdownable—her gritty delivery makes Chess Putnam's exhausted defiance feel utterly real.

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   Faebound

   Faebound • Book 1

   by Saara El-Arifi

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 3.65 ABR Score (29.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.53 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.1 Audible (208)

   13h 34m listening time • Released 2024

   Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this romantasy into something genuinely immersive—her voice work across the fae court feels lived-in and seductive, making the atmospheric worldbuilding hit harder than the prose alone could manage.

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   Unholy Ghosts

   Downside Ghosts • Book 1

   by Stacia Kane

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 3.62 ABR Score (18.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.66 Goodreads (16.8K) ★ 4.09 Audible (1.5K)

   11h 11m listening time • Released 2010

   Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this dark urban fantasy into something genuinely addictive—her delivery of Chess Putnam's sardonic voice and the gritty Downside world is so assured it feels inevitable.

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   Sacrificial Magic

   Downside Ghosts • Book 4

   by Stacia Kane

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.14 ABR Score (7.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.21 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.57 Audible (825)

   13h 48m listening time • Released 2012

   Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this gritty urban fantasy into something hypnotic: her voice carries Chess through moral quicksand with the kind of dark charisma that makes you trust an unreliable narrator completely.

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   Chasing Magic

   Downside Ghosts • Book 5

   by Stacia Kane

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.12 ABR Score (6.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.2 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.55 Audible (770)

   12h 58m listening time • Released 2012

   Bahni Turpin's narration cuts through the grit and moral chaos of Downside with a voice so perfectly calibrated to Chess's damage that the audiobook becomes the definitive way to experience this series at its darkest.

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   The God of Lost Words

   Hell's Library • Book 3

   by A.J. Hackwith

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.07 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (4.5K) ★ 4.58 Audible (274)

   13h 18m listening time • Released 2021

   Bahni Turpin's performance transforms this library-set fantasy into something genuinely magical—her range across angels, demons, and misfits makes every conversation feel like eavesdropping on something sacred.

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   Blood Debts

   Blood Debts • Book 1

   by Terry J. Benton-Walker

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Torian Brackett, Zeno Robinson

   ★ 3.98 ABR Score (5.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.83 Goodreads (5.0K) ★ 4.66 Audible (232)

   14h 30m listening time • Released 2023

   Four narrators bring distinct voices to rival siblings seeking vengeance in New Orleans—Turpin and Abbott-Pratt's chemistry crackles with the tension of a family torn between magic and survival.

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   The Undertakers

   Murder and Magic • Book 2

   by Nicole Glover

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 3.87 ABR Score (923 ratings)

   ★ 3.86 Goodreads (855) ★ 4.6 Audible (68)

   14h 35m listening time • Released 2021

   Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this post-Civil War murder mystery into something genuinely gripping—her voice work sharpens every twist in a plot where nothing's as simple as it seems. The Undertakers proves the series only gets better.

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    The Improvisers

    Murder and Magic • Book 3

    by Nicole Glover

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    ★ 3.78 ABR Score (285 ratings)

    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (271) ★ 4.57 Audible (14)

    14h 43m listening time • Released 2024

    Bahni Turpin's performance transforms this Jazz Age magic noir into something genuinely alive—her voice work across Velma's world is so precise it feels like stepping into a speakeasy where the stakes are actual sorcery.

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