3.5/5 for me.

I want to say that I have complicated feelings about this book. The best way I can describe it is expecting a 2 month beginner course on Asatru, and getting a week and a half crash course. It’s enough to get your interest, but is lacking detail on the main functions of the belief. It’s a book for a good start, but isn’t enough information to really learn and understand. 

One of my main problems is there is no real pronunciation. Apart from Asatru at the beginning, there is no phonetic spelling, and when you’re dealing with words from Germany, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc. It’s really important to understand how things are pronounced.

I also struggle with how rituals are written. From my look into different rituals/spells, you have to do them pretty specifically (or with a well thought out guideline) to make sure you don’t mess them up and have them backfire. What I understood from this book is that you can kind of do what you want, but not all the time, and we aren’t going to explain what to do.

I don’t regret reading this book, but it turned out not to be what I was looking for.