Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability
Lily Collison & Kara Buckley · 2024
🎙 Narrated by Lily Collison and Kara Buckley (the authors narrate their own audiobook)
76/100
👍 Worth It
Penny here — nineteen real people, told in their own words, about building a life alongside disability rather than 'overcoming' it, and every dollar of proceeds funds disability research. The self-narration by the two co-authors gives it warmth even without a polished pro voice behind the mic, so go in expecting sincerity over slickness.
✦ 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 Self-narrated by both co-authors; intimate, memoir-style delivery but no independent quality reviews exist to confirm polish.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing68
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy72
Hype vs delivers80
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
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