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Ten Guides: True Stories of American Grit
Augustus Wright, Terance Parker, Juanita Corea, Russell Gaines, Dean Registe, Mitchel Dascent, Stephen Joseph, Timothy Mack, Marlon Howard & Jerome Bussey · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Ric Chetter and Stephanie S. (professional narrators), with additional narration by co-authors Augustus Wright, Russell Gaines, Marlon Howard, Juanita Corea, and Jerome Bussey
70/100
👍 Worth It
Penny here — ten Black Army Chief Warrant Officers share 260 combined years of hard-won leadership wisdom, tracing their legacy back to the Buffalo Soldiers, and early readers are calling it a genuine inspiration. The hybrid narration mixing two professional voices with several of the real subjects reading their own chapters should give this some authentic texture, though it's brand new enough that the audio pacing across ten different storytellers is still unproven.
✦ 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: good Hybrid narration: pros Ric Chetter and Stephanie S. plus five co-authors narrating their own chapters; large roster could create pacing inconsistency, unverified.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing65
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit78
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict70
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