Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have yet to find a popular tarot blogger/reader on the internet who doesn't recommend this book, at least in passing. I am wondering if it is done simply out of fear of breaking some sort of online author social code? They couldn't possibly have actually read it because the first 7 chapters goes against most of the approaches they personally use in one way or another. Two of the most egregious: -Remote tarot readings only work if the reader has the "rare" gift of being able to access Qi. "the majority of practitioners cannot rely on remote tarot readings" Curious that most of her endorsers almost solely rely on this method for their tarot businesses. -If you don't practice reading on fake inanimate objects when beginning your are unethical and harming people. You don't have the intelligence to not tell someone they are going to die when the death card comes up unless you practice on a stuffed animal first. "The beginner must practice readings out loud to no one" Yet I have multiple books written by people who endorse THIS book saying read for as many people as possible when you are just starting out. Friends & family, just let them know you are a beginner. Mixed in with the examples above is some genuinely interesting, if extremely over complicated, information on tarot. But the dogmatic and condescending tone that pops up in the most unexpected ways over 800+ pages is a constant grating distraction that prevents me from being able to absorb alot of it. If I hadn't accidentally spilled tea on it the first day I got it, I would have returned it. I don't want to donate it, because unlike the many Tarot practitioners that I respect who have blithely endorsed this work. I think it does more harm than good. Especially to anyone who is remotely new to tarot and I don't want to be responsible for passing it along. Learning Tarot it can be extremely daunting and confusing and this book seems to deliberately attempt to only make it more so.