"I haven't done a book review since grammar school.  So you, my beloved family, may be wondering, 'Why Now?' I've just read a book so intense that I have to tell people about it.  It's called Initiation At Beltane.  
   The story starts off like a fantasy, but all of a sudden real people are added to the mix, and the fantasy becomes an allegory.  Then, after a short time, I started trancing-out for hours at a time.  The book went from just being entertainment into an intense learning experience.  It jump-started parts of my magickal mind that had laid dormant for years.  Once I got into Lady Tamarin Laurel's Initiation At Beltane, my magickal mind was re-stimulated.  It was like a great light bulb just got turned on in my head.  It was so intense I had to take breaks from the reading to trance-out, remember old rituals from my past, and write new ones for the future.  Some books like Karen Michalson's Enemy Glory cannot be put down, but Lady Tamarin's book has to be put down or you'll burn up.  Both these books are recommended by me to our whole family.  Enemy Glory for those who want to take a break from the mundane but still want something with intellect, and Initiation At Beltane for those who want a magickal ass kicking."   
---Daemon Magus, in review for The Beacon, newsletter of The Sword and Shield magickal order.

   "INITIATION AT BELTANE, first of the Ezmereld Chronicles, heralds a new type of magickal book, both story and guide to learning the Craft. When the Old Ones choose a person to become wise to the ways of the divine earth, that person doesn't usually know what has happened until after the fact. And so it is for Morgan who finds himself called to figure out what is reality and how to wield the powerful magick that is taught within the walls of Ezmereld.
    Author Tamarin Laurel skillfully brings readers through the spiritual awakening which can so often be confusing and scary so that readers find the path towards purpose, mystery, and magick as if the readers were themselves walking through the doors of the school."
---Jennie Dunham