Maggie's Audiobook: 5 Stars from Readers' Favorite!

Audiobook lovers adore voice actor Tavia Gilbert, who has performed hundreds books and earned virtually every major award in the industry, including Booklist Magazine Audiobook Narrator of the Year and the Best Female Narrator Audie Award.

Readers’ Favorite reviewer Romuald Dzemo found himself immersed in Tavia’s stellar performance of Grant Overstake’s YA novel, Maggie Vaults Over the Moon, rewarding the dynamic duo with 5-stars!

“The imagery is strong and the setting is unmistakably imprinted in the minds of readers. The writing is wonderful, with strong and engaging dialogues as well as terrific descriptions.” the reviewer writes. “The plot is robust and filled with emotionally rich and exciting moments. This is a story that will bring a lot of encouragement to young readers traversing difficult and challenging moments in their lives.”

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“This review is so great to read,” Overstake says, “because not only is Romuald Dzemo a world-class reviewer, he’s a spiritually minded person who found himself immersed in the deeper themes of the story. His praise for Tavia is well-deserved.”

READERS’ FAVORITE REVIEW

Maggie Vaults Over the Moon by Grant Overstake is an inspiring audiobook that follows the story of Maggie Steele, a farm girl from Grain Valley, Kansas. Maggie suffers a devastating loss when her brother, Alex, dies in an accident, but she refuses to let the grief drown her. Instead, she pursues pole-vaulting, a sport that is both dangerous and exhilarating, and is determined to train even harder and reach greater heights. But vaulting is a sport that many people think isn’t for her because she is a woman. But inspired by her brother’s spirit, she works even harder on her dream.

There are interesting details that enrich the story and give readers a solid idea of the setting and how people live in the community. In Grain Valley Township, people don’t wait for paid professional firefighters to rescue them, they rescue themselves. The imagery is strong and the setting is unmistakably imprinted in the minds of readers. The writing is wonderful, with strong and engaging dialogues as well as terrific descriptions. The plot is robust and filled with emotionally rich and exciting moments. This is a story that will bring a lot of encouragement to young readers traversing difficult and challenging moments in their lives.

Maggie Vaults Over the Moon by Grant Overstake is a beautifully narrated story and I loved the exciting narrative voice in the first-person. The audiobook is professionally recorded and the voice of the narrator is so clear that the reader follows every detail of the story. The pacing is well-captured in the audio and the voice of Tavia Gilbert had me mesmerized, exploring the emotions of the characters, especially the protagonist, in a profound way. It felt as good as reading the book." — Romuald Dzemo

Maggie Vaults Over the Moon is available for download at several online sites including Amazon.com

ABOUT GRANT OVERSTAKE

Author Grant Overstake has written two award-winning novels on important themes for young people. His premier novel, Maggie Vaults Over the Moon, (2012) earned rave reviews and National Book of the Week honors from Publishers Weekly. Grant’s most recent novel, The Real Education of TJ Crowley, (2018) has been hailed as an important work of historical young adult fiction, and was a “Candid Conversations on Race Book Club” selection by the Wichita Public Library; a national Book of the Month selection by Bookclubz; and named 2019 “Book of the Year” by the Kansas Authors’ Club. Visit www.grantoverstake.com

ABOUT TAVIA GILBERT

Tavia Gilbert added two more Audie Awards to her collection in 2020 for her stellar performances of How the Light Gets In (Faith-Based Fiction & Non-Fiction); and for her role as the Goose in the multi cast production of Charlotte's Web (Middle Grade). Add these top honors to Tavia’s 2019 Audie Award for Best Inspirational Fiction, her 2018 Audiobook Narrator of the Year Award from Booklist Magazine, and her 2017 Best Female Narrator Audie Award, and it’s easy to see why Tavia Gilbert is regarded as one of the most compelling and acclaimed voice actors in America. Visit www.taviagilbert.com

ABOUT ROMUALD DZEMO

Romuald Dzemo started his journey towards the search for meaning in an asylum, where he spent two years working for mentally handicapped persons and the homeless. He earned his BA in Philosophy from Paul VI, Bafoussam, Cameroon, where the question of meaning and man's ultimate destiny became his primary focus of research. He writes in the area of relationships, personal development, and the search for meaning. He lives in Manila, Philippines, with his wife and three children.