Teen Goddess: How to Look, Love & Live Like a Goddess

Obviously I'm not a teenager. However, I like to read anything I can about the Goddess and deity mythology from around the world. Luckily for me, this was not my first book about such topics. If it had been, it might have skewed my perspective for future reading. I think this is what many readers would refer to as a “fluffy bunny” book. That is, the book oversimplifies Pagan concepts and misrepresents them for presumably young readers. I enjoyed the mythology aspects of the book, as well as the strategies for incorporating these goddesses into one's practice. But the author tended to talk down to her audience. She also offers ridiculous spells: one for getting boys to kiss you, one for increasing your beauty, and even one called “How to Make Problems Magically Disappear.” Really? That's not what magick is! For young people who presumably have little grasp of magick, this isn't the kind of information they need at the surface level. There is some good advice in here for issues young girls deal with (self-esteem, body image, friendship). Why not just make a book about how to deal with these issues, rather than making the readers think they can magick away these issues instead of facing them?