Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Trials of Apollo, Book One: The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan · 2016
🎙 Narrated by Robbie Daymond
80/100
👍 Worth It
Riordan does what he does best here — funny, mythology-rich, and genuinely moving as a vain god learns humility the hard way. Robbie Daymond's narration is a real highlight and worth the listen; the one thing families should know going in is that Apollo's storyline touches on same-sex past relationships, handled tastefully but present.
✦ 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 Robbie Daymond is singled out by AudioFile Magazine as charming and central to keeping listeners sympathetic to Apollo through his humbling.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety62
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing82
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit68
Human-eye read80
Penny’s verdict80
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