Where to Start with TurtleMe
- Best entry point → The Beginning after the End: Publisher's Pack #1-2
- Best standalone → Apotheosis: The Beginning After the End
- What fans keep coming back to → Convergence
- Best narrator for TurtleMe → Transcendence
- Highest rated by listeners → Reckoning (The Beginning after the End #9)
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Reckoning
The Beginning after the End • Book 9
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.64 ABR Score (7.2K ratings)★ 4.68 Goodreads (3.8K) ★ 4.92 Audible (3.4K)22h 45m listening time • Released 2022Travis Baldree's narration transforms this ninth book into something genuinely gripping—his command of tension and character voices makes the political intrigue land harder than the action ever could.
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Ascension
The Beginning after the End • Book 8
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.58 ABR Score (8.6K ratings)★ 4.6 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (3.9K)24h 18m listening time • Released 2021Travis Baldree's narration elevates this eighth installment into something genuinely gripping—his pacing through Arthur's isolation and desperation hits harder than the plot alone could carry.
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Transcendence
The Beginning after the End • Book 6
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.51 ABR Score (10.2K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (6.2K) ★ 4.83 Audible (4.0K)15h 11m listening time • Released 2020Travis Baldree's performance elevates this series installment into something genuinely gripping—his range captures Arthur's emotional fracture as past and present selves collide under impossible stakes.
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Divergence
The Beginning after the End • Book 7
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.49 ABR Score (9.2K ratings)★ 4.48 Goodreads (5.3K) ★ 4.8 Audible (3.9K)15h 8m listening time • Released 2020Travis Baldree's narration elevates this sprawling series installment into something genuinely gripping—his command of multiple voices and pacing keeps the high-stakes plotting lean despite 15 hours of runtime.
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Convergence
The Beginning after the End • Book 5
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.46 ABR Score (11.6K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (7.2K) ★ 4.79 Audible (4.5K)9h 42m listening time • Released 2020Travis Baldree's performance elevates this pivotal installment, capturing Arthur's emotional weight as he pivots from personal growth to world-ending stakes. The audiobook makes the series' central tension between found family and cosmic duty genuinely devastating.
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Retribution
The Beginning after the End • Book 10
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree, Elizabeth Evans
★ 4.45 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)★ 4.61 Goodreads (2.7K) ★ 4.78 Audible (2.1K)23h 7m listening time • Released 2023Travis Baldree and Elizabeth Evans elevate this sprawling power fantasy with dual narration that captures both Arthur's internal conflict and the epic stakes surrounding him. At 23 hours, it's a massive payoff for fans invested in watching him actually build allies instead of just getting stronger alone.
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The Beginning after the End: Publisher's Pack #1-2
The Beginning after the End #1-2 • Book 1
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.40 ABR Score (7.4K ratings)★ 4.47 Goodreads (600) ★ 4.78 Audible (6.8K)12h 25m listening time • Released 2019Travis Baldree's narration transforms what could be standard LitRPG wish-fulfillment into something genuinely compelling—his performance makes you feel the king's isolation even as his new world opens up around him.
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Providence
The Beginning after the End • Book 11
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree, Elizabeth Evans
★ 4.27 ABR Score (2.6K ratings)★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.72 Audible (1.3K)27h 38m listening time • Released 2025The dual narration between Baldree and Evans brings real urgency to Arthur's impossible choices, transforming a 27-hour epic into something that feels genuinely intimate despite its massive stakes.
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Amongst the Fallen
The Beginning after the End #8.5 • Book 8
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.11 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (611) ★ 4.73 Audible (771)4h 43m listening time • Released 2022Travis Baldree's narration captures the moral weight of a fallen world better than the main series—his performance makes the secondary characters' impossible choices feel genuinely devastating rather than just plot exposition.
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Beckoning Fates
The Beginning after the End • Book 3
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 4.11 ABR Score (8.2K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (8.1K) ★ 4.68 Audible (31)6h 44m listening time • Released 2024Travis Baldree transforms this school-politics thriller into something genuinely gripping—his performance captures Arthur's internal conflict between power and restraint with perfect pitch.
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Apotheosis: The Beginning After the End
by TurtleMe
Narrated by Travis Baldree, Elizabeth Evans
★ 3.51 ABR Score (3 ratings)★ 5 Goodreads (3)26h 40m listening time • Released 2026Baldree and Evans nail the dual-narrator energy as Arthur faces his biggest stakes yet; twelve books in, the power progression still hits hard because the emotional weight keeps pace with the magic.
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