Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups
Ben Holden · 2017
🎙 Narrated by Ben Holden, Sandra Duncan, Luke Thompson, Gareth Armstrong, and Esther Wane
60/100
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Penny here — Ben Holden pulled together a genuinely impressive lineup, Shakespeare to Neil Gaiman, structured to mirror a night's sleep. But reviewers say it gets darker than you'd want for a wind-down listen, and the multi-narrator cast is described as soothing in places but uneven overall — a mixed bag rather than a reliable pick.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: fine One reviewer called the narration 'soothing' and 'fatherly'; another felt some selections were too dark to work as sleep material — mixed on execution.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing58
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy55
Hype vs delivers50
Age-fit60
Human-eye read50
Penny’s verdict60
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