The Ripple System, book 2
Black Sand Baron
Black Sand Baron, book 2 of The Ripple System by Kyle Kirrin: ebook Sep 23, 2021, 636 pages, audiobook 20 h 1 m, read by Travis Baldree. Checked Oct 11, 2026, no spoilers.
Character sheet
Book facts
- Place in series
- Book 2 of 6
- Kindle
- Sep 23, 2021 (ebook), 636 pages
- Audiobook release
- Sep 22, 2021
- Audiobook length
- 20 h 1 m
- Narrator
- Travis Baldree
- First edition to audio
- 1 day earlier
- Audible rating
- 4.88 from 6,890 ratings, checked Oct 11, 2026 (not our score)
Audio gap
The Ripple System audiobooks after the ebook
This audiobook came out 1 day earlier than the first edition.
Across 6 The Ripple System books, the audiobook came the same day as the ebook (median), from 1 day earlier to 9 days later. The last 3: book 4 same day, book 5 same day, book 6 same day. Past books only, not a forecast.
Every series' ebook-to-audiobook gap, book by book, with the source of each date.
Quest log
The whole series
Black Sand Baron in the The Ripple System book list: all 6 books with dates and lengths, and a checklist of the ones you have read.
Sources
How we checked this
Source: the source table behind our The Ripple System guide, read on the publisher, Amazon and Audible pages on . Ratings are store averages on that date, not our scores.
- Portal Books: The Ripple System
- Audible: Ripple System series
- Goodreads: The Ripple System series
- Amazon: Shadeslinger (Kindle)
We keep a few pages per series in search results: the next announced book, the latest one if it came out in the last 180 days, and the book still waiting for its audiobook.