Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Staying Power : Building a Stronger Marriage When Life Sends Its Worst
Carol Kent, David Lambert, Gene Kent & Cindy Lambert · 2020
🎙 Narrated by Pam Ward
82/100
👍 Worth It
This one earns its Christian Living Book of the Year win — two couples get unflinchingly real about crisis, including a son's life sentence, and turn that hard-won experience into concrete tools for anger, forgiveness, and staying connected. Pam Ward's professional narration is steady and well-matched to material this heavy, and worth the listen.
✦ 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 Professionally narrated by Pam Ward, well-suited to the weight of the material.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety82
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing82
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit82
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict82
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