Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Breaking the Silence
Linda Goldman · 2001
78/100
👍 Worth It
This is a specialist resource, not a general-audience book, and within its intended lane — counselors, educators, and parents navigating childhood grief after suicide, homicide, or abuse — it is authoritative and practically structured. Linda Goldman's international recognition in the field is real, and Routledge's imprimatur means it was properly vetted. The AIDS chapter is dated, but the grief frameworks themselves hold up well. Keep it on the professional shelf.
✦ 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: clinical discussion of suicide, homicide, child abuse, and AIDS — appropriate only for professional readers, not general or family audiences. We still scored it 78; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety72
substance84
craft78
originality75
accuracy80
hype82
age-fit78
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict78
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