Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
How to Build Great Credit and Raise Your Credit Score
Robert C. Hawthorn · 2018
🎙 Narrated by Douglas Birk
63/100
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This one earns points for grounding the credit-repair advice in real anecdotes instead of just abstract rules, and for covering both the fundamentals (FICO, bureaus) and roughly 20 actionable strategies. Douglas Birk narrates, and it's part of a curated Audible credit-repair grouping, which is a small mark of quality control. Solid enough, though nothing independently confirms the strategies actually work as promised.
✦ 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: unknown Narrated by Douglas Birk; no independent detail on pacing or delivery style could be verified.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing58
Originality50
Evidence & accuracy55
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit80
Human-eye read62
Penny’s verdict63
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