The Ripple System, book 5
Emperor's End
Emperor's End, book 5 of The Ripple System by Kyle Kirrin: ebook Jun 4, 2024, 725 pages, audiobook 16 h 18 m, read by Travis Baldree. Checked Oct 11, 2026, no spoilers.
Character sheet
Book facts
- Place in series
- Book 5 of 6
- Kindle
- Jun 4, 2024 (ebook), 725 pages
- Audiobook release
- Jun 4, 2024
- Audiobook length
- 16 h 18 m
- Narrator
- Travis Baldree
- Audible rating
- 4.91 from 2,292 ratings, checked Oct 11, 2026 (not our score)
Audio gap
The Ripple System audiobooks after the ebook
This audiobook came out the same day as 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
Emperor's End 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.