Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Money to Burn
James Grippando · 2010
🎙 Narrated by Jonathan Davis
60/100
👎 Skip It
A Wall Street disappearing-fortune plot with real dramatic tension, but both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly flagged plausibility problems and called it 'overwrought' — the peer blurbs from authors like Joseph Finder are nice but they're not exactly neutral. It's a fun enough financial thriller if you don't look too hard at the logic. Jonathan Davis narrates with his usual energy, though I couldn't find an independent review confirming this specific performance.
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🎙 Narration: good Same series narrator as Grippando's other titles (Jonathan Davis), described by retailers as tense and fast-paced, though no independent audiobook review was found for this specific title.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing60
Originality58
Evidence & accuracy55
Hype vs delivers50
Age-fit65
Human-eye read60
Penny’s verdict60
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