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There's a lot of stuff in this book . . . everything ranging from card tricks to coin tricks to ESP card stuff. It's a decent price for what you're getting. There's a nice range of card moves and card effects. There are some utility moves that I think will find their way into many repertoires out there.

I also found the ESP Stack and the full deck stack of interest. The book is well put together and has pretty much every "story" ever told about why the Nine of Diamonds is cursed. Those made for nice little breaks between sections. As you can see in the ad copy, there's a lot of stuff in this book. The odds of something appealing to you are pretty good.

I will say that some of moves are pretty intense and the description to perform them was not exactly easy to read. Also, in the coin section, there really wasn't anything revolutionary. Basically you're getting the authors' handling on classic effects (e.g., Three Fly & Hanging Coins). There was a kind of cool mentalism prediction effect using coins that was a little bit different. Most of the "new" stuff is found in the card section, particularly the sleights/moves that are taught. The effects themselves are pretty standard/common effects. This book didn't blow me away, but it's well written, has a fair amount of new ideas and some decent takes on some old ideas. If you're a card move guy, you'll definitely want to pick this up. If you're more of a mentalist type of performer, you really should consider it for the memorized deck (The Bart Harding Stack - a Calculated Stack), esp stack and the coin effect, A Small Price to Pay.

Final Verdict:
3.5 Stars with a Stone Status of Gem.