I had a bad run of luck with audiobooks and returned three unfinished (one for misogynistic writing, one for bickering twentysomethings and what I was confident would become an enemies to lovers romance, one for being boring). I did stick with Notes from a Regicide (Isaac Fellman) but it perhaps did not benefit from being read alongside Pale Fire. That made me suspect the entire time that the bizarre city shown in the "past" timeline did not actually exist and was all in the heads of two of the characters. Upon finishing it I don't think that was the author's intent, but he didn't do a good job helping me believe in the worldbuilding. It's supposed to be far-future, but too much (particularly the trans experience and language/slang) felt identical to our time for that to be believable. It seemed like a family study with a few fantasy elements tacked on for no obvious reason. I did enjoy it overall though because the family was sweet.
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