Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Young Money
Kevin Roose · 2014
🎙 Narrated by Nicholas Tecosky
78/100
👍 Worth It
Penny here — Kevin Roose spent years embedded with young Wall Street hires and it shows; this is sharp, sympathetic-but-clear-eyed journalism rather than a finance how-to. Expect depictions of a hard-partying, ethically messy culture, so it's an adult listen, and AudioFile praised the narrator's fittingly youthful, unwarm delivery.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Depicts excess, drinking, and toxic workplace culture; adult content, not family listening. We still scored it 78; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good AudioFile praised Nicholas Tecosky's youthful, deliberately 'not particularly warm' voice as a good match for the book's ambitious, conflicted subjects.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety62
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing82
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit55
Human-eye read80
Penny’s verdict78
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