Thank you to Netgalley, Llewellyn Publication, and Cyndi Dalte for the chance to read and review this ARC;

I really wanted more from this book from the start than I ended up getting. I was a little surprised to open the digital copy and find how roughly done this book was, without any images (spaces for which were filled with glaringly large, distracting orange boxes everywhere when you turned pages) and with some rather glaring formatting errors (that I hope might have just been the way it was loaded into the e-readers?).

I can usually set these things aside, due to the nature of early review, especially when it's clear people are looking for content review more than whole package review. Setting that aside, though, didn't end up improving my 'already shaky' opinion going in. While the book is a surfeit of information on the chakras, how to use them, what to do with them, and what best things to connect to your already other magical practices, I found it sorely lacking in being a helpful resource on everything in all of the Chakras and their connections/attributes alone.

I think this book would need to make it incredibly clear from the backcover that this book shouldn't be picked up by novices to the chakras, looking for an easy ability to start using what is listed, or that they might find themselves expecting to step into shallow, warm, welcoming waters and inside plunged into the depths of the sea. ( )