Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Deep Black: Deep Black, Book 1
Stephen Coonts & Jim DeFelice · 2004
🎙 Narrated by J. Charles
57/100
👎 Skip It
This launch title moves at a decent technothriller clip - a downed spy plane, a coup plot, a race against time - but I genuinely couldn't find much independent critical assessment behind the plot summary, so my confidence in calling this a strong pick is limited. J. Charles's narration reads as competent, genre-standard work for Brilliance Audio, though I can't vouch for much beyond that.
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🎙 Narration: unknown Reviewed by AudioFile Magazine, but the dossier doesn't capture their actual verdict - J. Charles's Brilliance Audio production reads as a standard genre narration with no red flags noted.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness55
Craft & writing55
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit60
Human-eye read55
Penny’s verdict57
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