Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Beyond Addiction : How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Stephanie Higgs, Nicole Kosanke, PhD, Jeffrey Foote, PhD & Carrie Wilkens, PhD · 2014
🎙 Narrated by Randye Kaye
72/100
👍 Worth It
This is a genuinely useful, evidence-based guide for families navigating a loved one's addiction, written by credentialed clinicians who favor compassion over confrontation. Randye Kaye's narration fits the subject well, and though it reads more like a manual than a story at times, it earns its worth-it stamp for the families who need it.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Mature subject matter: addiction and its effects on families is the central topic, handled clinically/educationally rather than graphically - adult audience.. We still scored it 72; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: fine Narrated by Randye Kaye, an author/advocate on mental illness and addiction in families herself, a fitting match for the subject; no specific critical commentary on her narration was found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing65
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers52
Age-fit60
Human-eye read72
Penny’s verdict72
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