I should have taken the advice of the original post I was responding to and canceled my order. This book is a mishmash of information that is only negligibly useful. Some of the information I would even categorize as whacked-out.
Llewellyn puts out some great books (e.g., "The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals") so I guess they're entitled to a clunker once in a while. Who knows, maybe some people do find this book useful. As for me, I'll be selling this baby on eBay, along with my other least-favorite book, "Tarot Card Combinations" by Dorothy Kelly.
The latter book does contain some useful ancillary information, but the bulk of the book, which deals with card combinations themselves, was disappointing. I was expecting the author to provide an approach and methodology to interpreting combinations, much like Mary Greer does in her book on reversals, rather than just an endless procession of of combinations and their supposed meanings (in keyworks no less, a method I find useless). I imagine that reading card combinations is much like reading individual cards: the meaning you give them is more a blend of others' interpretations and your own intuition rather than a rigid set of keywords to learn by rote. In terms of this perception of card combinations, this book fails.
If you'd like to make up your own mind about these books, check out my posting on eBay in a few days.
Hal