Thank you to the publisher for allowing me to read and review this ARC. Full review to be found on Goodreads and on my website.

If you're curious about divination and want to learn more, you might want to check out The Divination Handbook by Liz Dean. This book covers different types of divination, such as crystals, Tarot and Palmistry, and gives you tips on how to use them. It's a perfect book for beginners who want to explore the world of divination. The book also has beautiful images that illustrate the concepts and techniques. I really enjoyed reading this book and learning more about divination.

I slowly got into Tarot during my first MA in 2016. It was very much a journey to get comfortable with it, but I've had some very valuable sessions since then. So of course my interest in divination has been growing since then as well. The Divination Handbook is a great introduction to a wide variety of divination traditions, from where you can then choose one you want to focus on. While it features a lot of illustrations, it occasionally is a little thin on direct, practical advice. Some chapters are a lot more extensive, which means the arts they describe feel more real, whereas those in the shorter chapters therefore feel less believable.

The chapter on palmistry was especially interesting to me since I didn't know a lot about it. Tea leaf reading still seems a bit odd to me, but it was another intriguing chapter.

OMG!!! This book is amazing. Very helpful in my quest to learn more about tarots and crystals especially. Easy to understand and read. Very informative. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on my review.

The perfect book for all levels of witchery. With plenty of information for beginners starting out on their divination journeys.

This easy to read handbook gives wonderful descriptions and beautiful photographs. From beginner to more experienced, I believe this book can be guiding at all levels of divination practice. You are given fundamental meanings and helpful descriptions throughout each chapter with a clear focus on crystals, palmistry, and tarot. Most helpful may be that you are given a lot of information easily found in one place.

The Divination Handbook is a really good guide for starting divination - whether it be focusing on Runes, Pendulum, tarot readings or others. It offers advice in order to begin working with these tools and the best way to cleanse them.

This is particularly good for those who are looking into practising and playing around with divination, or have started using a certain tool but want more knowledge to help them progress and feel more comfortable.
I found this handbook to be especially helpful as I had just started using tarot cards and was having some difficulty with my confidence.
Even Liz's section on the Pendulum (which I've been using for a year now) had some useful knowledge that I've been able to apply.

Such a wonderful introduction to the major forms of divination. This is a great launchpad to help you discover what area you are most drawn to, or if you are already familiar with one i.e. tarot and are looking to add a second form of divination to your arsenal. Liz Dean covers the basics and gives you enough to start practicing and experimenting with tarot, runes, scrying, numerology, tea leaves, palmistry and crystals. Overall, I enjoyed this very much.

I absolutely loved this book on divination!😍 It has all that a beginner needs to start down the path of divination. This handbook is also perfect for those whom already dabble in the practice as well. Highly recommended!😍

Handy guide to crystals, palmistry, tarot, and more, with plenty of diagrams, photos, and illustrations for all your divination needs. Pictures in the ARC I reviewed look kind of low-res, but I'm hoping that's just the PDF file and they'll look better printed.

A great basic to all divination. The author has included information on tea reading, palm reading, pendulum, tarot, and more. This is a great book for beginners and those who are seeking further teachings. I enjoyed reading it and found a lot to learn from this book.
It is a helpful guide for everyone that is choosing a path to study and become proficient on.
Thank you for the advance reading copy. My opinion is my own .

I would give this 2 1/2 stars if I could. I really wavered between 2 and 3, and decided on 3 since it's a fun basic read if you don't want too much information.

This is an okay book if you want to dabble in fortune telling techniques for fun. It does not go into enough detail to really help take it seriously, but you'd probably buy or check out individual books on the specific techniques if you wanted to do that. It is fairly lacking in illustration and pretty generic. You don't get a sense of the author and her history with any of this at all, but more a "here's super basic information" on each section.

I do have some knowledge of most of the sections in this, even though I don't really follow them. Some examples of where I'm coming from as a reader: I have experience with tarot cards, have done numerology for fun in my younger years, had a child who had fun using runes for a while, and things like that. When I worked as a small town bartender and waitress in my 20's I had a set of Mexican bingo cards that I told fortunes with for fun and while I didn't take it seriously, I had people who brought friends from other towns to get readings. My family and I take part in a historic fortune telling event every year where a "fortune teller" (an ER nurse who's studied palm reading for fun for years) tells us all about what the lines in our palms mean. Things like that. So while I don't use divination as a serious part of my own spiritual path, I know a lot about most of the methods talked about in the book.

The tea leaf reading bit struck me as particularly silly, to be honest. You're supposed to look for images in the spent tea leaves at the bottom, but there aren't pictures of examples other than a few blobs to give you an idea. And the list was a little ridiculous. How do you know if a shape is a ring or a circle or a bracelet, for example? It's a circle shape made of leaves. And some of the shapes were even sillier. What does a cell phone shape in tea leaves look like?

Also, it's really lacking information on how to do the stuff. For instance, it talks about how to basically toss crystals onto a mat to see what falls close to you or near or off the mat, and then tells what each crystal means. There are a LOT of crystals and some of them are rare or expensive like emeralds. Are we supposed to buy all those crystals? Where? What size? Does it matter if they're polished or raw? How big is the cloth? What kind of cloth? There's just so little information. Stock photos show what each crystal looks like from shutterstock but some are round and polished and some are more like science kit crystals.

In the palmistry section, there are line drawings but there's just not much to go on. I would have really appreciated photos of hands for examples. Also, I seem to have no fate and supposedly will have no children (I have 5). My local ER nurse/fake palm reader does a much better job reading my palm. :)

The types covered included: tarot cards, using a pendulum, numerology, palmistry, runes, crystals and crystal balls.

NOTE: I would recommend reading a physical copy of this book and not a digital one, as the illustrations don't tend to be on the same page as the text about them. The Kindle version is likely to be frustrating, though this is just a guess since my version is in ADE format and not Kindle.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

A great basic to all divination such as: tea reading, palm reading, pendulum, tarot, and many more. Completed with short explanation for each card (in tarot) or palmistry, this book is perfect for a beginner who still deciding which device they want to use.

This book was absolutely beautiful, with pictures of Crystal's as well as cleansing, at tuning, using, etc. It was extremely informative and I greatly enjoyed it.

Very very helpful and thorough. Would recommend to others if they were looking to learn about this subject. I like how the chapters are broken up. This is definitely a book I can keep referring to over and over.

I enjoyed the The Divination Handbook. I was able to learn about a variety of traditions that have been used and still are still used today. I like the the illustrations as they were very helpful. I will say this is just a starter. There are several modes i want to look into more and really learn about their history and how to use them.

Liz Dean's The Divination Handbook is a beautifully designed guide for beginner seers to use crystal, pendulums, runes, tea leaves, tarot, palms, numbers and crystal balls to connect with their intuitive wisdom and gain insight into answers to questions or events in the future. The art of divination believes the future is not fixed and we all have free will. What clues or signs we interpret
from our reading, we have the choice to change.

As a practical guide on common divination tools, The Divination Handbook is a great introduction for those interested in strengthening their intuition. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on Crystals, Palmistry and Tarot for they were the most in-depth, and what I mean by that is that there were foundational meanings ascribed to the tools such as the symbolism behind different crystals types and interpretations for the major and minor arcana of cards. I quite liked learning the process of how to scry with a crystal ball simply because I never thought of the practice behind it. It's a bit like combining crystals and tea reading together. Although some readers may itch for further reading, whether this is a hunger for more historical context or desire for further depth into more sophisticated readings, this is a simple guide for developing your personal practice for doing readings for yourself or for others. For this reason, I quite like this edition. I personally have a beginner's guide to reading tarot cards that seems quite dense and wordy, both design and text issue, and it made it difficult for me to understand a particular tarot card at times because there was so much going on. While it may steer into the reductive realm, the Divination Handbook makes this sacrifice in order to provide the reader with a clear roadmap to do their own readings. It pays off and for that I am very appreciative.

Some of the other chapters were slim such as dowsing the pendulum or reading the runes and tea leaves, and it had the effect of making these divination tools very fluffy and obviously made up. Yes, an odd complaint to lodge against divination but it does break the suspension of disbelief the reader is willing to entertain. Throughout the handbook, I noticed that the meanings and interpretations of certain tools were geared to a certain demographic and this became quite clear in the pendulum chapter where the author provided a set of options for creating a pendulum chart. This was the example of what it could look like:

1. make no changes at this time
2. pursue a job application now
3. look for a position in my present company
4. go self-employed
5. take advice
6. consider a temporary position
7. consider this later in the year

It really rang home the message that this book is geared to the demographic that is behind the popularity of Moon Juice, an inexplicable brand that continues to be shelved in LA and NYC boutiques, and for some reason has a juice book or perhaps a cookbook, last time I saw in a store. I Divination as a personal practice is something that I am highly intrigued for its healing and entertaiment values, and I am interested in particular, in crystals and tarot readings.

All things considered, The Divination Handbook is an accessible primer.

This book had an overview of many of the main divination techniques including tarot, palmistry & crystals. I thought it great for a beginner and some sections were very detailed.

I thought some aspects such as the tarot could possibly have been a mini book of its own so that it could be more detailed.

A very informative book!
As someone who's just starting researching about all of this, study all the tarot and divination, this book by Liz Dean was just so very helpful! Her writing is smooth, and everything is very explainative. The part about the crystal reading with all the crystal summary with photos and all was very good since I’m not very in the known still about them!

I would like to thank Netgalley and Fair Wind Press for the chance to read and review this book!

Unfortunately, I could not properly review this in the provided format. However, I do think the premise is very interesting and would love to see a completed version that I could comprehensively review.