Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex
Michael Todd · 2020
🎙 Narrated by Ameen Gaines
59/100
👎 Skip It
Todd's viral sermon-turned-bestseller is candid and accessible on dating and sex, but some readers found the advice fairly familiar, and a few flagged broader doctrinal concerns about the author worth knowing before you dive in. Ameen Gaines' pastoral-toned narration fits the sermon-derived material well, but overall this one runs more on hype than depth for a lot of listeners.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Some reviewers raised doctrinal/theological concerns about the author (including a controversial 2023 service and prosperity-gospel-adjacent comments) separate from the book's content itself. We still scored it 59; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Ameen Gaines channels a pastoral cadence suited to Todd's conversational, sermon-derived storytelling.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety60
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing65
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy55
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit70
Human-eye read62
Penny’s verdict59
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