I mean, I'm sure this is a lovely book, but as an audiobooks it falls through entirely. From the very beginning, and therefore hardly a spoiler, the author uses a lot of citations from period writings, and this probably meshes beautifully when written. In the audiobook, it's jarring and disorienting whenever these come up, because you're unsure of who's talking, where it comes in the sequence of events, and how long these continue for. Like is the person who's talking now someone in the plot, or a reference for mood-building? The published splurged on great voice actors, but it doesn't save this from being a terrible audiobook (but at least not because of the voice actors).