Series ✦ Penny’s Take
Ripple
Mandy Hubbard · 2012
70/100
👍 Worth It
Lexi's isolation feels genuinely earned rather than manufactured for drama, and the siren mythology gives the familiar paranormal romance structure a fresher hook than most. The emotional core — guilt, self-punishment, and whether your worst quality defines you — is well-suited to the teen audience and handled with real care. Genre readers who have powered through multiple love triangles before may find it predictable, but for the right twelve-to-sixteen-year-old this lands.
✦ 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.
📚 Buy the book ↗📱 Read on Kindle ↗🎧 Listen on Audible ↗ affiliate links · support the site, never the verdict
As an Amazon Associate and Audible affiliate, Penny earns from qualifying purchases. This never affects the verdict — see our affiliate disclosure.
Show the math
Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance68
craft70
originality66
accuracy75
hype76
age-fit88
human-eye70
Penny’s verdict70
Cross-pollinate