Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Jurassic Park: A Novel
Michael Crichton · 2015
🎙 Narrated by Scott Brick (Brilliance Audio, 2015 edition)
84/100
👍 Worth It
Crichton's science thriller still holds up as a tense, smart page-turner about ambition outrunning caution, and decades of bestseller status plus a spot on PBS's Great American Reads list back that up. There's real violence and peril here, so it skews teen-and-up rather than a full family listen. Scott Brick's Audie-winning narration is a genuine highlight — his pacing through the suspense scenes and his take on Hammond are exactly why this edition is the one to grab.
✦ 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 Scott Brick's narration is praised for deep, even tone and skillful pacing during suspense sequences, with his John Hammond specifically singled out as a highlight.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing86
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers52
Age-fit62
Human-eye read88
Penny’s verdict84
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