Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Every Deep-Drawn Breath
Wes Ely · 2021
🎙 Narrated by Grover Gardner (with passages by Wes Ely), Simon & Schuster Audio
87/100
👍 Worth It
Dr. Wes Ely turns his career-long fight against ICU delirium into a genuinely moving, rigorously-researched case for treating critically ill patients with more dignity, and it's earned real recognition including a Christopher Award and praise in The Lancet. It's emotionally heavy but never exploitative, and the A2F Bundle framework gives it real staying power beyond just a good story. Grover Gardner's narration is a bonus, he's an Audie-winning veteran and a great match for this kind of measured medical memoir.
✦ 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: excellent Grover Gardner is a widely respected, Audie-winning narrator well-suited to this compassionate medical narrative.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness90
Craft & writing88
Originality82
Evidence & accuracy90
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit85
Human-eye read88
Penny’s verdict87
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