This book really is a do-it-yourself book on totemism, and it really is a wonderful and more in-depth successor to some of the martial covered in the author’s earlier book Fang Fur Blood and Bone. The author gives many suggestions on various ways someone interested in working with totems on different levels can go about it. Instead of simply being a dictionary or reference book of rituals and ways to work with totems, the author sets their book into being something that will expand the readers mind and knowledge into what they can do themselves. Each chapter has several general open-ended questions and practices the author suggests the reader might want to try out.

Lupa also takes time to really talk about totems other than what most other books on totemism might generally over look. Totems of smaller animals, extinct animals, and even animals which most people in the western world might over look as totems that could be worked with because they are usually though of as ‘food.’ The author’s

The author’s writing style and use of personal experiences in the book really helps keep the text alive and following from chapter to chapter. The book has a sparse few number of spelling errors and one or two footnotes in the book were cut off in mid sentence, but it was nothing distracting. All in all, a lovely book. ( )