Endgame is the name of the final book in this bundle, and it doubles as a description of the whole package. Three novels, Defiance, Hunted and Endgame, arrive in one audiobook running twenty-five hours and twenty-seven minutes, and together they carry the Shorten Chronicles to its finish. Sophie is back at the Manor with a price on her head large enough to take the house down alongside her, a murdered man's secret sitting just out of reach, and a series' worth of unfinished business waiting to be settled. This is the second and final boxset, which is the most important fact on the page and not the one the page leads with.
What Rosalind Tate Delivers
Complete series is what the description announces in capital letters across the top, and the claim does not survive its own next paragraph, where the same copy calls this the second and final boxset of the Shorten Chronicles. Both statements sit on the record. Only one of them helps anybody. What a buyer gets here is books four, five and six; the first three sit behind a separate purchase. For a browser scanning quickly, a banner promising a complete series above a title reading Books 4-6 is precisely the sort of contradiction that generates returns, and one editor could fix it in five minutes.
Fifty-seven stars is the only total that produces this badge, which makes the arithmetic unusually informative for once. A 4.4 across thirteen ratings requires a sum between 56.55 and 57.85, and 57 is the sole whole number inside that window, with 65 theoretically available. So exactly eight stars went unawarded across the panel. The two visible grades, a five and a four, account for nine of those fifty-seven between them, which leaves the eleven untexted votes totalling forty-eight. That describes a consistent, warm, unspectacular pool with no hidden disaster buried in it and no unanimity either.
What Rosalind Tate Gets Right
Sophie has a price on her head, and the stakes the copy sets are domestic rather than cosmic: her family, her friends, the Manor, and a dog the description takes the trouble to call remarkable. That last detail says more about the register than the plot summary does. This is a series that keeps its emotional weight inside a house and among the people living in it. The threat is not that the world ends. The threat is that this particular household does, and that everybody in it goes down together, which for a young adult series is exactly the right scale.
Comparisons on this record aim high and aim adult. The copy pitches the set at readers of Deborah Harkness, Diana Gabaldon and Stephenie Meyer, which sets an expectation of long, immersive, romance-inflected fantasy with a historical streak running through it. Categorized as teen and young adult, the record sits slightly across that grain, since those comparison authors skew older than the shelf it has chosen for itself. Take the comps as a description of texture rather than of audience. What they promise accurately is scale: a big house, a long arc, and a story that expects a listener to stay for the whole run.
Where Rosalind Tate Loses Some Ground
Katy Sobey works through all three books, which is the structural fact that matters most on a bundle of this length. One voice across three consecutive novels means the burden falls on continuity rather than on range, and the January 2026 four-star names exactly where that burden lands: enjoying the time travel while getting a little lost among all the different versions of people. A story generating multiple versions of the same characters is close to the hardest assignment a solo reader can be handed, because those distinctions have to stay audible and consistent with no cast to lean on.
Melissa Knight's five-star, filed in February 2026, is a plot note rather than a review, and it earns its place anyway: Sophie is tired of traveling to the past and the future and to strange places, and wonders whether it will ever stop, preferably soon, for her family's safety. That fatigue is a legitimate late-series subject and one this bundle appears to take seriously rather than wave away. Two written responses under thirteen ratings is a thin column by any measure, which makes both of them load-bearing and neither of them conclusive.
Who Should Pick Up The Shorten Chronicles, Books 4-6
Finish-the-series buyers are the audience, and the bundle serves them properly. Anyone who has already read the first collection gets the remaining three novels in a single purchase, with one reader carrying them through and no format change partway through the arc. Listeners who like a fixed setting, a large household under sustained threat, and a plot that pays off arrangements made several books earlier will find this a fair price for a conclusion. The word Endgame on the third title is not decoration; the record is explicitly selling an ending.
Half a series is what a browser is actually being sold, whatever the banner claims, and anyone who has not read books one through three should stop here and buy the earlier collection first. The copy assumes the Manor, the household, Sophie's history and a murder that has already taken place, and explains none of it. Comparison shoppers should also weigh how thin the evidence is: thirteen ratings and two short paragraphs is not much to underwrite a purchase this size. Ask the sample what a column this short has no way of telling you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which books are in this audiobook boxset?
Book four is Defiance, book five is Hunted and book six is Endgame, all three named in the description. Books one through three come in a separate earlier collection. Anyone buying this one on its own will be starting three novels into a story that never pauses to catch them up.
How does a twenty-five-hour audiobook split across three novels?
The record gives one combined runtime and no per-book timings at all, so the boundaries fall wherever the files fall. Averaged out, each novel occupies roughly eight and a half hours, which is a normal length for the category, though nothing on the page confirms the three are evenly matched.
