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Title: A Disappointment
Review: I had hoped that Polson's The Veil's Edge would feature concepts and techniques for the advanced practitioner. Unfortunately, although the chapter topics are intriguing, there is little here of substance. The book reads more like a seventh-grader's book report. Polson intersperses personal anecdotes with quotes from pagan and occult authors, but the reader would be better served by accessing the primary sources in their entirety. Polson presents nothing substantially different from the dozens of other introductory books out there. Her advice is sound, in a very basic sort of way, but she offers little to those who have spent more than six months studying the Craft. This is not a bad book - just unsophisticated in style and content. It perhaps would be appropriate for a reader looking to move a baby-step beyond the "Teen Witch" series, but who is not yet ready for Starhawk, Curott, or Galenorn.
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