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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

The Perfect Cast

T. K. Chapin · 2019
60/100
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A farm-summer setting and two parallel healing arcs — a teenager escaping her parents' crumbling marriage, a musician who abandoned his guitar after a bad past — give this a bit more texture than most in the genre. The one thing I can't fully vouch for is the vague, undescribed 'incident' in Levi's backstory. Pleasant, not essential.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety78
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing55
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy48
Hype vs delivers35
Age-fit72
Human-eye read58
Penny’s verdict60
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