I'll be the first to admit that I have a TERRIBLE time focusing on audiobooks. They're right up there with films. Can I read a 900 page book in a few days? Hell, yeah. Can I binge-watch an entire season in a week? Absolutely. Can I focus on audiobooks? Not so much.

Still, I'd like to think anything is possible. Which is why I decided to set a goal for myself: listen to a few audiobooks. The likelihood of me doing so is pretty slim--a couple of these, I started listening to in the spring of 2018 and still haven't finished them. Basically, I'm the absolute worst. I'm looking to rectify that.

It's not even that I hate audiobooks. I don't. I enjoyed the Harry Potter ones that were narrated by Jim Dale. I think what made me enjoy Harry Potter in audio form was because I already was familiar with the story and its characters. I mean, aren't we all? Most of us at least know the characters names from HP, if we haven't read the books or seen the films.

What's always struck me as weird about my inability to focus on audiobooks is that I like listening to old radio plays A LOT and I basically lived for story time in my childhood. None of it makes sense! Oh, I'm not here to rationalize it, it just does (to an extent) bother me that I can't stick with one for very long 98% of the time.

So! Here we are. I'm setting up a goal of five audiobooks for 2019. Two new-to-me books, and three I have already read in the past.

Let's dive in!

Everyone in Crow Hollow knows of Alvaretta Graves, the old widow who lives in the mountain. Many call her a witch; others whisper she's insane. Everyone agrees the vengeance Alvaretta swore at her husband's death hovers over them all. That vengeance awakens when teenagers stumble upon Alvaretta's cabin, incurring her curse. Now a sickness moves through the Hollow. Rumors swirl that Stu Graves has risen for revenge. And the people of Crow Hollow are left to confront not only the darkness that lives on the mountain, but the darkness that lives within themselves.

Salem, Massachusetts, is the site of the infamous witch trials and the new home of Samantha Mather. Recently transplanted from New York City, Sam and her stepmother are not exactly welcomed with open arms. Sam is the descendant of Cotton Mather, one of the men responsible for those trials, and almost immediately she becomes the enemy of a group of girls that call themselves the Descendants. And guess who their ancestors were?
If dealing with that weren't enough, Sam also comes face to face with a real live (well, technically dead) ghost. A handsome, angry ghost who wants Sam to stop touching his stuff. But soon Sam discovers she is at the center of a centuries-old curse affecting anyone with ties to the trials. Sam must come to terms with the ghost and find a way to work with the Descendants to stop a deadly cycle that has been going on since the first accused witch was hung. If any town should have learned its lesson, it's Salem, but as Sam and her frenemies soon find, history may be about to repeat itself.

Schuyler is an outcast at her prestigious private high school filled with fashionable upper-class socialites. But this off-limits world opens up to her when Schuyler turns 15 and discovers that her peers, like her, are budding vampires. Then vampires start getting killed, and Schuyler realizes something else - they are being hunted.

When 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin - one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow over the faerie lands is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it... or doom Tamlin - and his world - forever.