The book's ideas are okay if you're interested in an almost monotheistic devotion to Hekate. The view of Hekate as an all-powerful source of energy infusing everything, using her epithets as foci for specific energetic aspects, referring to her as My/Our Lady, and capitalizing her pronouns are all too reminiscent of Christian practices for my taste. But it obviously works fine for the author and others, and normally I enjoy reading about others' practices even if they won't directly impact my own.

I did get a couple tangential ideas from the first half of the book, and I appreciated the author's emphasis on personal development.

However, in this book you have to wade through:
-an absurd number of comma splices;
-sentences you need to re-read because they're missing words or include extraneous words that don't belong (these proofreading issues constantly stalled my reading experience);
-REPETITION of words, phrasings, quotes, and ideas on every other page. Seriously, half this book is just a repeat of itself;
-random unsourced claims with no discussion, leaving you wondering what to do with that information (e.g. Hekate is also associated with the number 7: okay, literally a 1-sentence idea that isn't returned to at all);
-discussion of ideas before she actually introduces them (e.g. she first mentions a salt strophalos, which the reader has supposedly built, several sections before she actually discusses what a strophalos is and how to make it);
-direct contradictions like claiming "Hekate will support our witchcraft, whether it's for nefarious purposes or for the highest good" after 244 pages of structuring her thesis on kindness being one of the three core guiding Hekatean principles;
-the author's personal, unsupported interpretations as solid parts of Hekatean devotion (e.g. she says throughout to modify your practice according to your preferences, but then says she associates Wednesday with Hekate "for no reason except that I am a Gemini and Wednesday (Mercury's day) is my favorite day of the week" and continually references Wednesday as a definite Hekatean day after that);
-the rapid downhill tumble of the second half of the book, bypassing any sort of logic or cohesion whatsoever.

Brannen tries to do too much with this book (introducing both general magickal concepts and Hekate) and ends up only touching at the most surface level of those topics, leaving the reader not only wanting but needing more. Honestly, reading Hekate's entry on Theoi.com and any other introduction to magickal practices and then putting the pieces together yourself will be more beneficial. ( )

This book was an absolutely wonderful beginner's book. The reason why I'm putting it as four stars instead of five is because of the editing errors throughout the book. There were more than just a few. However as I'm seeing with her second book she has definitely made leaps and bounds in the area of editing and making the book look more professional. I really appreciate this very much.
I have to say, that although the author did a very good job incorporating Hekate into the exercises and thoughts behind them, the exercises themselves were very normal for any beginner to read in just about any beginner's book. But as I said before she did a very good job incorporating Hekate into everything. So all in all a very good beginner's book. ( )

Not quite for me, but a great resource nonetheless. I liked how this book blended personal development, ancient beliefs being brought to modern times, and witchcraft. I think this would probably be better suited for those who lean towards a similar single=goddess path (which I don't). I did find it really interesting overall, and I'm glad I got the chance to read it! ( )