“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Star James Marsters to Narrate Cassandra Clare’s “The Last King of Faerie ”Audiobook (Exclusive)

The book is part of Clare’s final ‘Shadowhunter’s trilogy

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer star James Marsters will narrate the audiobook for Cassandra Clare’s The Last King of Faerie, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal

• Out Nov. 3, the novel is part of Clare’s final Shadowhunters trilogy
• Marsters has previously narrated Clare’s Dark Artifices series

James Marsters is returning to the world of Shadowhunters.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, 63, will narrate the audiobook of The Last King of Faerie, the first book in Cassandra Clare’s final Shadowhunters trilogy.

Clare debuted her Shadowhunter Chronicles series in 2007 with the novel City of Bones. The YA fantasy franchise, about angel-human hybrids called the Nephilim, has encompassed multiple books, short story collections and graphic novels. It was also the basis for the Freeform show Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments.

The Last King of Faerie, part of Clare’s Wicked Powers trilogy, centers on Drusilla Blackthorn, a fourth-year student at Shadowhunter Academy. After a night out results in her kidnapping, Dru winds up in the land of Faeries as a prisoner of Prince Ash Morgenstern, per the book’s synopsis.

Meanwhile, Dru’s brother, Ty, must team up with Kit Herondale when a sudden disappearance has drastic effects on the Shadowhunter world.

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Marsters has narrated various audiobooks, including Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series and Slayers, an Audible Original story set in the Buffy universe. He also narrated books in Clare’s Dark Artifices series, including Lord of Shadows and Queen of Air and Darkness.

“When I come into the studio to do an audiobook, what I find is that it’s very much like doing theater,” Marsters says of the narration experience. “It’s basically hanging words in the air to get an effect.”

Knopf Books for Young Readers, the publisher of Faerie, says the novel contains the “nail-biting adventure, heart-pounding romance and trademark humor” that Clare’s readers have come to love.

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The Last King of Faerie will be published on Nov. 3 and is now available for preorder, wherever books are sold. The audiobook edition will be released by Listening Library.

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