Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Boundaries in Dating
Henry Cloud & John Townsend · 2009
🎙 Narrated by Jonathan Petersen (unabridged edition, per Amazon/Audible listing); an abridged edition is narrated by the authors
72/100
👍 Worth It
The reframe here — using dating to test character rather than chase chemistry — is a genuinely useful angle, and it's held up as a staple in Christian singles ministry for good reason. It's explicitly faith-based and marriage-minded, so it won't fit every dater, and a few examples show their age from before app-based dating. The unabridged narration is solid, but the author-read abridged edition reportedly lands warmer for the personal stories.
✦ 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: good Unabridged edition narrated by Jonathan Petersen/Peterson (spelling varies by retailer); an author-narrated abridged edition also exists.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety84
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing70
Originality62
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers74
Age-fit80
Human-eye read72
Penny’s verdict72
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