Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
Ramani Durvasula PhD · 2024
🎙 Narrated by Ramani Durvasula, PhD (author-narrated), with a foreword narrated by Maria Shriver
83/100
👍 Worth It
Dr. Durvasula brings real clinical credibility here, and the core message — that you're not to blame for someone else's narcissistic behavior — lands with genuine validation and useful, practical boundary-setting tools. It's heavy emotional territory, but she narrates it herself in a clear, clinical-but-warm voice, with Maria Shriver's foreword adding a nice touch, so the listen is every bit as strong as the content.
✦ 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 Author-narrated, clear and clinically warm, with a Maria Shriver-narrated foreword — a strong, credible listen.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety82
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing80
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit80
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict83
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