This podcast has amazing stories to help me fall asleep. Love listening to them every night. I wake up multiple times a night and continue the stories where I left off. They are interesting and engaging yet soothing enough to let me drift off.

I love this show so much - it really helps me to let go of the day’s thoughts & anxiety and move comfortably into relaxed space and drift off….. thanks

I used to love this podcast but they’ve added so many ads recently. Like, retroactively added them to all the episodes. I don’t mind ads at the beginning (gotta make money off us non-subscribers somehow, I get it), but putting an ad at the end of a sleep podcast is just mean. Thanks for waking me up again. Unfollow.

thank you for the beloved emily books thank you thank you thank you

Love it, but Andrew’s delivery sounds forced. He ends every sentence with a huff of air that is distracting. If this was eliminated, it would be perfect.

His delivery brings all of the characters to life—it is perfection. I will have to keep playing the Emily books, they are wonderful.

My brain is now trained to relax once Andrew begins reading. I look forward to hearing the stories. The Emily series is my favorite.

It would be helpful if user could turn it off or at least lower the volume.

I have enjoyed all the books so far except one about Greece …or something. I did find the voice quite staccato for a bit but it seems to have softened to a degree. I DO NOT LIKE THE NEWER BACKGROUND ‘MUSIC’…it is too closely looped and actually stirs up my brain. I’ve resorted to voice only, but I really liked the old background sound which seemed to contribute well to my dozing off. Please change it I beg of you!

I won’t even try listening because its so difficult to even find out which books were even read because of how they set it up. Please fix this as it seems like an interesting premise.

Loved the Emily books, can’t wait for the last of the series. Thoroughly loving North and South. Only recently found this so have lots of books to still listen to. Many thanks Andrew.

You guys need to pipe down because this pod is firreee like it be smoking hot 🥵 🔥🔥🔥🔥🧯🧯🧯🧯like we need to put this fire out!!!!!!!

This is so bad for me but you can’t even talk right about me anymore because I’m just saying that to it hate you

Thank you for making this it really help me sleep because I have middle School tomorrow

Thank you for keeping me asleep since I’ve started listening several weeks ago Your voice and background are soothing Again thank you

AI computer talking, annoying

Please! Arrrrgh!!!!! Why did you erase chapters 1 and 2 of The Secret Garden? I am sobbing in my pillow.

I have insomnia, and I’ve listened to a lot of sleep inducing podcasts. This (and only one other podcast) is the best of all I’ve tried. My favorite of Andrew’s readings is Emily of New Moon. Also, thank you for presenting the story episodes in daily order.

Your voice is so soothing

Thank you! This really helps me sleep.

Love this series, always puts me to sleep! Chapter three of Emily climbs is WILD, not the best for sleeping but wow!!

I’ve listened to many sleep podcasts, and Andrew is able to soothe my mind gently, and then to read, thankfully without being monotone, and keep it interesting but soothing. I’ve yet to be awake at the endings. I enjoy his format and highly recommend this!

I would love this podcast if it weren’t for the fact that the reader uses different accents and voices for different people. There is no need for the different voices, as people who follow the story can tell who is speaking from the context. His “French” accent for Hercule Poirot is so awful that I can’t even listen to it. It is truly bizarre and distracting. And I say this as someone who loves Agatha Christie and could not wait to have one of her books read on the show.

A great voice to lull me to sleep and to calm my racing thoughts.

Thank you for doing this! This makes all the difference for your faithful listeners. I will share the news with others!

So glad the series is read in order. Good thinking. Head and shoulders above those teasers who jump around in their readings.

Most nights I sleep well, but there are some nights when I’m restless, with random thoughts running through my head. This podcast has been a marvel. I just plug my phone into a charger, using a long cord, and put the phone under my pillow. I’m asleep in no time! It doesn’t matter what the reading is;it sends me off to sleep, and I’m able to stay asleep.

It’s too bad, this podcast has a good idea but poor execution. The voice is so odd and so clearly a fake “robot” doing it. Any reviewer who praises the voice is probably a fake review.

Andrew has a great ability to calm and lull you to sleep. I just wish he would read the entire book instead of jumping to another. Nevertheless I find this as the best podcast to send me to sleep! Thank you so much!

(First, I agree that the time lapse between stories or chapters is too long. I’d rather follow one or two through to the end.) The narrator’s voice is slow, calm and pleasant. However as a suggestion, there is a need to pronounce foreign words correctly in these stories. In Heidi I noticed difficulties with titles and surnames. This has an affect on the story being read. Another word is the word B U T which is pronounced bt or bit. And each exclamation of “Oh!” is read exactly the same. I doubt that every Oh is s curious one or a questioning one, as opposed to a startled one, a frightened one, or a shocking one. Thank you for all of your efforts, Andrew. In general, you do accomplish your goal. In Emily, her friend’s name is written Ilse pronounced Ill seh or ill sa. It was pronounced as Isla (isle la). According to the dictionary the correct pronunciation for Ilse is ill sa, or I’ll-s. Isla is a completely different name.

I’ve tried many podcasts and this one is just serene and calming. So happy I found it. Thank you for the better sleep!

I love Andrew’s voice. It’s very soothing and relaxing. I do wish that the podcast was structured in a way that one book was read at a time or that episodes could be arranged by book in proper chapter order. Also, a quick recap of the previous chapters/episode for each book would be lovely at the beginning of each episode would be lovely. Essentially, a similar structure to The Sleepy Bookshelf.

I really enjoy the app but the chapters out or order is frustrating, not a great way to settle into sleep.

So many lost nights before I found this show. I cannot recommend more atrongly.

Tough crowd, I suspect most of these reviews saying the voice sounds creepy and robotic are from kids. I’m grateful for this podcast. I love his voice and the content. Continue doing such a great job and allowing me to get to sleep. Zzzz

I listen to this podcast almost every night. I love his voice, I love all the stories, and it really helps quiet my mind as I drift off to sleep.

I think the voice is great, very relaxing and calming. I like that he reads slow enough to really hear what is being said. Good selection of books. Like many other reviewers, I do wish that the chapters were released together. It’s difficult to sort through and find what you need to listen to next.

This podcast has helped me fall and stay asleep many times.

I love all the stories and as someone who has insomnia and PTSD nightmares this is truly a blessing. Don’t ever stop doing this podcast!

I really enjoy the current reading style, which is different from the show’s previous style when the show was just starting and also unique from audio books. The stories are also good, especially Sherlock Holmes, Greek stories, and Emma of New Moon.

Excellent execution of a sleep podcast. Good voice work, and no 10-15 min advertisement preamble.

Listening to this, I fall asleep so quickly! I actually have even been sleeping more solid all night, with dreams finding me! I haven’t slept so well since I was an exhausted new mama decades ago. I only have 2 complaints, but they aren’t bad enough to lower my rating. 1, I dislike that the same story isn’t published back to back. Makes it a challenge to listen through one story in a night. I have to hunt and ‘save’ the ones for one story to listen together. 2, the way he mispronounces Daaé in Phantom of the Opera. He says ‘Day’. It is properly pronounced ‘Die-ay’ or ‘Dah-ay’. Please research how to properly pronounce unique words such as this as hearing it incorrectly can pull a person who knows the correct way, out of their peaceful falling asleep zone.

I love his voice, it’s unique and sleepy. It’s even tempered enough that it’s never jarring. And he’s prolific! Keep it up, my man, and ignore the petulant little reviewers.

I’m always asleep within the first 5 minutes. Sometimes I want to hear the stories. But never last 😂

It is calm andIt calms me down so then I can fall asleep the narrator Voice is soothingExcept it takes a long time just to get to the calming down part

Soothing voice. The stories are just interesting enough to keep your attention but not exciting at all so that your mind can follow along and then you fall asleep. I never hear the whole episode. Thank you Andrew!

I have trouble going to sleep sometimes so this podcast made it here. I think it’s perfect for kids and adults. I really like it and I think that people should try it out because it’s hey Siri do it in a nice voice. That makes you sleepy. It’s calming it’s pretty cool.

Consistent voice levels and relaxing music let you drift off. No loud sponsor pitches.

I like the soothing voice and accent. Never make it very far into a story before I go to sleep. Thank you…

Good. Sterile but terrible audio voice, unfortunately the pacing, tonality, cadence of emphasis are pretty off. Distracting.