Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Children of Time: Children of Time, Book 1
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2017
🎙 Narrated by Mel Hudson
90/100
👍 Worth It
An Arthur C. Clarke Award winner that earns its reputation — a genuinely ambitious, thought-provoking story about spiders evolving into a civilization while the last humans search for a new home. Mel Hudson's narration gets singled out by reviewers specifically for how she voices the spider characters, giving the book's two very different worlds real distinction in the ear. This is a listen worth committing the time to.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Mel Hudson is specifically praised by reviewers for distinctly and effectively voicing the Portia spider characters versus the human cast; Audible editorial called the pairing 'mind-bending and satisfying.'
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety70
Substance / usefulness95
Craft & writing92
Originality93
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers80
Age-fit68
Human-eye read90
Penny’s verdict90
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