Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Catastrophic Friendship Fails of Lottie Brooks
Katie Kirby · 2026
🎙 Narrated by Charlie Sanderson
76/100
👍 Worth It
Lottie's diary-style meltdown over her best friend drifting toward a new clique — while she's stuck playing a singing crab to impress her crush — is funny, relatable, and true to how twelve actually feels, in a bestselling series with real heart underneath the jokes. The print edition's doodles don't carry over to audio and there's no real word yet on narrator Charlie Sanderson's performance, but the writing itself earns its laughs.
✦ 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 Narrated by Charlie Sanderson; no specific critical commentary on the performance was found in available sources.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety92
Substance / usefulness68
Craft & writing75
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers78
Age-fit85
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
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