Ravelin's review of Predestined is dated April 6, 2012. The recording itself was published on October 31, 2013, more than eighteen months later. Whatever Ravelin devoured in a single sitting that spring, savoring it like a fine wine to the last drop, it was not the audiobook you are currently looking at. The other four responses all landed after the release date, and none of them mentions listening either. So the column of opinion under this product page describes a novel, while the page itself is selling a seven-hour performance of that novel.
Our Take on Predestined
Pagan Moore can see souls, and the boyfriend she rescued from an eternity in Hell is Death himself. That is where this book starts, which tells you immediately that it is not designed as an entry point. The high school quarterback and reigning heartthrob, Leif Montgomery, has gone missing. The town worries about a missing teenager. Pagan worries about something else, because Leif was never an average teenage boy, is not human, and according to Death does not have a soul at all. Glines writes the premise as though the reader has been living inside it for a book already, and that assumption never lets up across the seven hours that follow.
Abbi Glines runs the second half of the setup through Dank, who knew from the beginning that Leif was not human and dismissed him as a simple soulless creature. That was the mistake. Pagan's soul turns out to have been marked since birth as a restitution owed to a spirit so dark that even Death keeps a distance from it. The quarterback may have left town, but he keeps arriving in Pagan's dreams uninvited, the sort of complication a paranormal romance runs on.
Jessica S., writing in January 2014, gives away considerably more than the publisher does. The review identifies Leif as the prince of the dead in the Voodoo religion, names his father as the king, and explains that Pagan's soul was promised long ago, after a mother took a dying child to a Voodoo priestess and begged for whatever could be done. If you want to arrive unspoiled, skip that response. If you want to know what you are buying, it is the most informative text on offer here.
Why Listen to Predestined
Just over seven hours makes this an easy commitment, and the pacing is built for exactly that. Ravelin reports finishing it in one sitting, which the runtime of 7 hours and 18 minutes makes entirely plausible for a determined afternoon. Short young adult paranormal romance is one of the formats audio serves best, because the propulsion depends on momentum and a listener never has to work to keep up. This one keeps the plot moving and the stakes escalating. Audible Studios released it at the end of October 2013, and the length puts it squarely in the category of books you finish on a single weekend without meaning to.
Enthusiasm is the dominant register in the responses, and it is not a subtle enthusiasm. Ravelin describes the book as sizzling and asks whether someone turned up the heat, then says it was better than the first installment. Happy girl, writing from Canada, contributes the single word AMAZING. Kavya, in India, offers Good one. Cecilia, writing from Brazil in Portuguese, had already enjoyed Existence, liked the second book even more, and was waiting on the third plus a Leif story.
Ashley Litz is the lone name in the narrator field. The novel is told in close first person from inside Pagan's head, so this is a sustained single-consciousness performance, not an ensemble job, and the demand is different: the reader has to make one teenage voice carry sarcasm, terror and infatuation across the full running time without the relief of switching registers. The listing says nothing at all about how that lands, a recurring frustration across young adult audio catalogs.
What to Watch For in Predestined
Dates aside, the star badge is the second oddity worth flagging. It displays 4.4 while the counter beside it records a single vote, and one whole-star vote cannot produce a decimal like that under any convention. Directly below, five people have signed responses grading the book at five, four, five, four and five. The badge and the column are not talking to each other, so the responses are the part of that display worth reading.
A listener arriving cold will struggle, and the publisher's own copy proves it. The summary opens by assuming you know that a boyfriend was rescued from Hell, that seeing souls is normal for this narrator, and that Death has a first name. Jessica S. calls the run a trilogy while this page files it as the second entry in a series called Existence, with no total given. Either way, book one comes first.
Three of the five responses are shorter than a paragraph, and two of them carry no review title at all. One is a single capitalized word. Another is three words long. A third is written in Portuguese and mostly discusses anticipation for the next volume. That leaves two substantial English assessments for a book of 7 hours and 18 minutes, and neither describes the recording, only the story inside it. For a series title this deep into its run, a thin column is not unusual, but it does mean the buying decision rests almost entirely on whether the first book worked for you.
Who Should Listen to Predestined
Paranormal romance listeners who came up on the boyfriend-is-supernatural premise will find this a comfortable, fast-moving second course, and the escalation from saving one soul to fighting over Pagan's own is a genuine step up in stakes. Anyone who finished Existence and stalled should note that the reviews consistently rank this installment above the first. The short runtime also makes it a reasonable palate cleanser between longer commitments. Teen listeners who like their romance tangled up with mythology get a version of that here where the mythology has actual teeth, since the thing owed Pagan's soul is described as something even Death avoids. Readers who enjoy a love triangle with genuinely unequal players will find the setup unusually lopsided in a good way.
Look elsewhere if you want the audio evaluated before purchase, since nobody on this page has written a word about the performance. Ask yourself whether Voodoo mythology arriving mid-series without a word of introduction sounds like pleasure or like homework, because fluency in the rules is simply assumed here. Existence first, or this one reads as noise.
Before You Press Play
- Narration: Ashley Litz is the single credit on a first-person paranormal romance that stays in one head.
- Themes: a soul promised at birth, Voodoo mythology, a love triangle with Death on one side.
- Mood: hot-blooded and headlong, over in an afternoon.
- Verdict: a strong second installment for readers already inside the series, and impenetrable for anyone else.
Questions Listeners Ask
How steamy is the Predestined audiobook?
Reviewers describe heat, not explicit content. One calls the book sizzling and asks whether someone turned up the temperature, which suggests charged scenes without graphic detail. The record carries no content advisory of any kind, and the young adult categorization implies restraint, but nothing in the fields promises anything.
Why is one review dated before the audiobook was released?
Because written feedback pools across every edition of a title. The earliest response here is dated April 2012, while this recording carries an October 2013 publication date, so that reader was working from a print or ebook copy. Treat all five responses as commentary on the novel, not the performance.
