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octavia_cade 's review for:
Elemental Power: Celtic Faerie Craft & Druidic Magic
by Amber Wolfe
Yeah, this is... not for me. It's basically a series of guided imaginative exercises for pagans to connect with Celtic mythology, a nice idea I guess. I mean, I'm pretty solidly atheist but I'm predisposed to give some credit to spiritual systems that prioritise environmentalism and imagination, so I thought I'd give it a read in my ongoing quest to sample a wider variety of books. It just left me cold. A lot of it, I'm sorry to say, reads like a bad fantasy novel, and the thinking seems woolly and verges in places on just plain sloppy. For example: "Of approximately 374 Celtic god names, 305 occur only once. Of the nearly forty remaining god names, just four or five occur more than once..." (17). I did not find this a promising beginning. Though, as I said, this is not the type of book for which I hold any natural sympathy. Other people may find it more appealing.