Quiz: Discover your next audiobook MMC narrator obsession

There’s a reason you’re listening to the same chapter on repeat, and it’s got nothing to do with missing key plot points, darling. The right narrator can really turn a good romance read into an immersive smut experience with unreal endings. So, whose name should you be looking out for next to corrupt your headphones in the best way? That’s what you’re about to find out…

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1. Your ideal MMC voice makes you feel...

A. Like you're being watched from across a dark room and you're not sure whether to run or stay (and you're staying)

B. Like you've been summoned to a private audience with someone extremely powerful who finds you either useful or intriguing, and either way you're thrilled

C. Like you've stumbled into a world where the rules are ancient and the man explaining them to you is simultaneously terrifying and magnificent

D. Like you've cracked open something gothic and delicious and the voice reading it to you knows it’s corrupting you (in the best way)

E. Like you're watching someone competitive and warm and slightly unhinged with feelings try very hard not to show it, and failing deliciously

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2. The MMC energy you're here for...

A. Obsessive and possessive: he decided she was his before she had any say in the matter

B. Aristocratic and deliberate: every word chosen, every move calculated, and devastatingly effective

C. Ancient and world-weary: power so old it's become quiet, and all the more dangerous for it

D. Brooding and literary: the kind of man who exists in shadows and uses them well

E. Emotionally chaotic and competitive: big feelings, poor communication, excellent arms

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3. The line that would make you physically pause the audiobook...

A. Something low, deliberate, and threatening that somehow lands like a promise

B. Something smooth and unhurried that makes absolutely clear he is in complete control of this situation

C. Something reverent about the FMC, like she's the thing he's been waiting centuries for

D. Something dark and quietly unhinged delivered in a voice that sounds like a cathedral at midnight

E. Something blurted and sincere that he immediately regrets saying and cannot take back

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4. Your listening situation of choice...

A. Alone. Lights off. No interruptions. This is sacred and slightly unhinged and you need the full experience.

B. Commuting: headphones in, completely dissociated from reality, probably missing your stop

C. Bubble bath, candles, full immersion. You treat romantasy audiobooks as the spiritual experience they are.

D. Late night, volume low, slightly under a blanket like the gothic romance is your whole personality

E. Gym or run: the competitive energy of a sports romance narrator is genuinely the best motivational tool available

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5. Your ideal MMC quality is...

A. He's watching. He's been watching. He considers this entirely proportionate.

B. He walks into rooms and they rearrange themselves around him without being asked

C. He carries something super old and heavy and occasionally lets you see the weight of it

D. He speaks in subtext and pauses and you find this unbearably attractive

E. He's trying so hard to seem unbothered and absolutely no one is convinced, least of all you

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6. The audiobook genre you consume most aggressively is...

A. Stalker romance and dark romance: boundary-pushing, morally questionable, completely unmissable

B. Mafia and villain romance: powerful men doing terrible things in extremely well-tailored situations

C. Romantasy: fae courts, ancient magic, enemies who've technically been in love for centuries

D. Gothic romance and dark academia: the kind of books that smell like old libraries and bad decisions

E. Sports romance and contemporary: emotionally repressed athletes slowly catastrophically falling apart

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7. The pause before he speaks...

A. Is loaded. Deliberate. You felt it somewhere specific.

B. Is calculated. He knows exactly what that silence is doing. So do you.

C. Feels ancient. Like he's choosing words in a language older than the one he's speaking.

D. Is gothic. Is literary. Is doing something to your nervous system you'll be processing later.

E. Is him composing himself. Failing. Speaking anyway. Delightful.

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8. Your audiobook review would contain the phrase...

A. "I am not okay and I need everyone to know that."

B. "Absolutely criminal. Five stars. No notes. Help."

C. "I have ascended. I am a different person. The fae did this to me."

D. "Deeply unsettling in ways I found deeply enjoyable."

E. "Why is he like this. Why do I love it. Five stars obviously."

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9. The moment you actually became obsessed with audiobooks was...

A. When you realised a dark romance narrator could make a morally reprehensible situation sound like the most compelling thing you'd ever heard

B. When a narrator delivered a villain's dialogue so smoothly you forgot entirely to be alarmed by the content

C. When a romantasy narrator made a fae monologue sound like something that should be performed in an ancient theatre to a weeping audience

D. When a gothic narrator read something sinister so beautifully you had to sit with it for a full minute before continuing

E. When a sports romance narrator delivered a confession scene so earnestly you had to put your phone down

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10. Your listening face, honestly...

A. Unreadable. Intense. Slightly concerning to anyone nearby.

B. Composed on the outside. Absolutely not on the inside.

C. Somewhere between awestruck and emotionally compromised. You've accepted this.

D. Thoughtful, slightly haunted, occasional slow blink of appreciation

E. Trying not to smile. Failing. Giving up. Full grin in public. No regrets.

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11. When a narrator truly nails an MMC voice you...

A. Immediately download everything else he's ever narrated at midnight without hesitation

B. Send an unhinged voice note to your group chat that is mostly just screaming

C. Lie completely still processing what just happened to you for an unreasonable amount of time

D. Add it to a very specific, very curated playlist of listening experiences you return to repeatedly

E. Force at least three people you know to listen to the exact scene immediately

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12. The quality you absolutely cannot compromise on in a narrator...

A. Intensity. If he doesn't sound like he means every word, you're out.

B. Command. The voice needs to own every room it enters, including your eardrums.

C. Range. From ancient and fierce to tender and devastating: he needs to do all of it.

D. Atmosphere. The voice needs to carry the darkness of the prose without losing the literary quality.

E. Warmth underneath the edge. The feelings have to be in there, even when he's trying to hide them.

Your results - who’s your next MMC narrator obsession?

Mostly As: Your narrator is Teddy Hamilton

Darling, you went looking for a BookTok recommendation and found a voice that lives rent-free in your nervous system. Teddy Hamilton narrates the dark, the obsessive, and the morally grey with an intensity that makes you feel genuinely watched (in the way you secretly enjoy.) If you've heard him in Haunting Adeline or Caught Up you already know exactly what we mean and you're nodding with slightly unhinged enthusiasm. Welcome to the club.

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Mostly Bs: Your narrator is Shane East

Smooth, commanding, and seductive. Shane East builds an MMC voice the way a villain builds a trap: deliberately, elegantly, and with full awareness of the devastating effect on our bodies. He narrates power like it's his first language and makes morally questionable men sound like the most reasonable people alive. You've been warned, darling. Repeatedly. But you won’t listen (which is the correct response.)

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Mostly Cs: Your narrator is Anthony Palmini

You need range, darling, and Anthony Palmini delivers it in full. From the ancient, reverent intensity of A Court of Thorns and Roses to the gothic darkness of Lights Out, he moves between worlds and registers with the ease of someone who genuinely inhabits every character he voices. He makes fae monologues feel like spiritual experiences and morally grey MMCs feel like the most compelling men in any universe. Which they are.

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Mostly Ds: Your narrator is James Cassidy

Gothic, literary, and quietly corrupting: James Cassidy narrates the kind of dark romance that lives in atmosphere and subtext as much as explicit content. He reads sinister with a precision that feels almost academic, and delivers darkness with a quality that makes you want to highlight the prose you're listening to, which isn't even possible, and yet… Sweetly Unhinged, Anathema: these aren't just audiobooks, darling. They're an experience.

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Mostly Es: Your narrator is Connor Crais

Warm, competitive, and emotionally catastrophic in the most endearing way. Connor Crais narrates the kind of MMC who has enormous feelings and absolutely no idea what to do with them, which is frankly the most relatable energy in romance. Sports romance, contemporary heat, banter that crackles; he makes the slow burn feel genuinely urgent and the payoff feel genuinely earned. Rewind It Back in his voice on public transport is an experience that will seriously test your composure.