The experience of listening to an audiobook is definitely not the same as reading. I'll happily count it as reading, but with a good narrator, the story is a bit more immersive.

I'm 3 chapters from the end. We're about to get to the big inflection point. And I had to pause this, because I don't know that I'm ready to handle it if the bad guy gets the upper hand and wins. This never happens to me with words on paper.

(And I know the good guys are gonna win here. This is not the kind of book that's going to build up all the characters and then end all of them on a sour note. But still, I have to pause.)