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Doors of Sleep by Tim Pratt - A Review
The moment Zax Delatree's voice fills your headphones, you're already falling asleep in his arms, tumbling through the infinite black between worlds. Tim Pratt's debut novel isn't just read to you-it wraps around you like the strange, shifting atmospheres Zax encounters in each desperate leap through the multiverse.
This isn't your typical audiobook experience. Pratt crafts something closer to a fever dream you can carry in your pocket. Each portal Zax stumbles through brings new textures: the electric hum of utopian cities that taste like copper on your tongue, the acrid smoke of collapsed civilizations that stings your nostrils even as you sit safely in your car or office. The prose moves like quicksilver, never letting you settle too comfortably before yanking you into another reality.
What makes this journey unforgettable isn't just the relentless pace-though Zax's exhaustion becomes your own as his voice cracks with another unwanted transition. It's how Pratt layers genuine wonder beneath the surface panic. Yes, Zax is running from something that wants to drain him dry, but he's also humanity's most accidental explorer, cartographer of impossibilities he never asked to map.
The audiobook format amplifies everything. You don't just read about Zax's collection of survival tools from different realities-you feel the weight of them in his pockets, the way each small device represents another world left behind. When he takes passengers with him-unconscious bodies sharing his exile through sleep-you hear their breathing sync with his own, three heartbeats racing toward unknown destinations.
Pratt's writing carries the same addictive quality as the best speculative fiction: the moment you think you understand the rules, the ground shifts. Just when you're getting comfortable with one world's logic, Zax's eyes flutter closed and you're somewhere else entirely, grasping for purchase in realities that fold and twist like origami in a hurricane.
This is exile as addiction, exploration as curse, and survival as the only dance step you've ever known. Listen with the lights off-Zax's insomnia might become your own.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
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Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience