Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Fasting
Aage Hellemose · 2015
55/100
👎 Skip It
Hellemose brings extraordinary personal experience — five 40-day water-only fasts over four decades of ministry — and within Pentecostal and charismatic communities that commitment gives him real credibility. The practical guidance including recipes distinguishes this from purely theological treatments. But the self-published origin with no independent editorial oversight, the extremely narrow audience, and the genuine health concerns around extended water-only fasting keep this from a broader recommendation.
✦ 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: explicitly Pentecostal Christian content · describes extended 40-day water-only fasts that carry health risks without adequate medical disclaimer verification. We still scored it 55; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety60
substance60
craft55
originality55
accuracy55
hype72
age-fit78
human-eye52
Penny’s verdict55
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