Thank you to NetGalley and John Hunt Publishing Ltd. for an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.
I have loved getting to read some different pagan/Wicca books recently, and this one definitely caught my interest. I don’t know exactly what I was expecting with it, but what I got was very different than what I thought it was going to be. Not a bad thing, but definitely required me readjusting my viewpoint of what I was about to read.
This book is not so much a guide to how to do practical magic at home but rather a self-help book and finding the beauty and natural magic in our every day lives. I think it is filled with a lot of really great information that is very important to remember (trust your intuition on things!), but I found the title a bit misleading for what I thought it was going to be. This book is very practical, there is no doubt about that, and it truly shows how you can take ordinary things and find the magical joy in them – which is truly something special – and it does connect to many magical elements, but it is not so much teaching you ritual spells or any other magical components that you need other than adjusting your mindset to see the beauty in the every day.
Now, this could have just been me not understanding what book I was picking up, which is completely valid, but it was a bit disappointing for me to have it be so straightforward as a self-help book in my mind. It is a wonderfully written book, and I think it has a lot of great information that people should read, but it wasn’t quite my cup of tea. I would definitely give it to someone who needs help finding the beauty in the “mundane” and I still encourage anyone who finds the concept interesting to read it.
Solid 3/5