I stayed up late last night eager to finish this book.  While I still sympathize with her search for meaning and the transcendent, much of my criticisms from my earlier review remain.  I'm still shocked by the classist and elitist lens that Mar uses to describe Witches in America.  I can see why others are calling it the East, Pray, Love version of Witchcraft.  Overall, she does not paint a good picture of the community and it's leaders. It upsets me knowing that she has profited from her exploitation of those who viewed her as a friend.

Towards her benefit, I will say that the second half of the book was definitely a page turner.  Some of the characters she describes, like Jonathan the Necromancer, are so out there that I was both grossed out and engrossed by their strange practices.  I can see why she immerses herself on the fringes of the Occult community, singling out the outsiders of the outsiders.  It does provide for interesting characters and interesting storytelling. Though it seemed she was more interested in being provocative than accurate and she becomes less of a seeker and more of a voyeur.