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Kind of a mess
I bought this book because I love goddess mythology and feminine archetype stuff, and it does contain some of that, but it's buried under such a thick mountain of poorly edited new-age buzzwords and meaningless catchphrases that it's almost impossible to extract the good stuff. I liked Emma Milton's last book, but this one reads like she wrote the whole thing on peyote (that would explain a lot, actually.) If Soul-Searcher's Handbook was about exploring and embracing "woo woo" stuff as a somewhat logical person... I would say since then she's not only drank every drop of the woo-woo koolaid (woo-laid?), she went and got downright sh**-faced on it. Which is all... whatever. She's clearly barking up the "Women Who Run with Wolves" tree (I couldn't make it all the way through that book, either.) But easily 50% of the sentences in this book ARE NOT SENTENCES. Either they're sentence fragments, or just...word soup. Example: "In between confronting demons and relaxing deep into her empowering truth- re-rooting herself to love and reconnecting to her purpose- gives her no patience for the tired and restless tormenting games of demons." Any editor should be catching stuff like that. This book is just... not good. Sorry, Emma. It had such great intentions and I wish the author would come on back down to earth and try it again, because it could be FASCINATING, but instead it's just... white-girl-in-a-sarong-faux-profound-fluff-feminism, and nearly unreadable to boot. I have to agree with one of the other reviewers- I'm not sure I even want to donate this book, I'm just going to recycle it.
January 2019 · Books · verified purchase
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