The Effect
The back cover blurb.
Professional secrets revealed and made easy by a master magician.
You can buy a pack of cards for the price of a cup of coffee! With these 52 simple items, magicians can perform thousands of unbelievebale tricks. John Tremaine is a professional magician and member of the inner magic circle. SHare his conjouring secrets in this fascinating book of easy-to-follow card tricks and you'll be entertaining your friends in no time! Each stunning trick is illustrated throughout with superb step-by-step photographs and plenty of hints and tips.
Cost
£4.99 from the works but hurry, these will sell out and as you know, The Works tend to sell end of line books so once they're gone - they're really gone (usual price £9.99).
ISBN 978-1-905288-13-7 and 1-905288-13-1
Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
Progressively between 1 and 3
Review
There's a lot covered in the 126 pages and he book itself is a progressive course - a sort of easy mans cut down version of Royal Road.
It's a good quality spiral bound book with great quality photo illustrations throughout that's about A5 in size (just a fraction wider). The book begins with some of the basics such as an overhand shuffle, in-jog, glide to name just a few and although they aren't covered in great detail you will certainly get the picture of how these moves are performed. If you're learning then you'll either persevere with the practice and move onto other 'more detailed' resource material or just give up and forget it.
There are some nice routines included which get progressively difficult as you learn more of the sleights but there's nothing more than a three in terms of difficulty but what you will have if you work through is some good tricks that will set you apart from those who keep showing the 21 card trick whenever the cards come out in the pub.
Overall
With Christmas coming up this would make an ideal present for a nephew etc. along with a deck of Bikes but hurry, these probably won't last too long at the price.
You can't go wrong for this price.
