Every Heart a Doorway
by Seanan McGuire (Tor, 2016); audiobook read by Cynthia Hopkins (Macmillan Audio, 2016)
McGuire hits upon a winning premise and spends this first novella laying down the rules. The plot itself is minimal, almost immaterial (though the characters do function well as representatives of the different types of magical worlds). Hopkins reads with dreamy remoteness.
Rosemary and Rue
by Seanan McGuire (DAW, 2009); audiobook read by Mary Robinette Kowal (Brilliance, 2010)
McGuire has crafted a multifaceted faerie world overlaid upon modern-day San Francisco. Even though the crime and investigation don’t amount to much, October Daye remains an easy protagonist to follow, her sardonic faux-hardboiled narration well-handled in audio form by Mary Robinette Kowal.