 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name's David and this is the Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Imagine Nation project from Michael O'Brien. All right, so what is this? Basically, it's a self-published book of over 30 effects of Michael's real world repertoire. You want to see the trailer? This is it. Hi, my name is Michael O'Brien. Today, I'm very excited to share with you my new book, The Imagination Project. This book features 31 close-up effects for my personal working repertoire, including card magic, coin magic, cups and balls, sponge balls, chop cup, mentalism, and even a routine using a rose. Aside from the effects in this book, you're also going to learn how to make some new gimmicks, as well as some new sleight of hand that you can add to your already existing routine. Thank you so much for watching everyone, and until next time, keep practicing. All right, so that was the Imagine Nation project from Michael O'Brien. Like I said, it's a card magic book, mostly, mostly card magic, and over 30 effects. Okay, so within the 106 pages, what kind of effects are you going to get? You're going to get an in the hands triumph effect, a red hot mama effect, color changing deck, transpositions, sandwich effects, do as I do, oil and water, for ace production, card to pocket, a ton of tricks involving a blank card or blank deck. So you always find blank cards in your deck sometimes. What do you do with them? He's got the answer for you. Coins across trick. He's got a rope trick in there. He even has a trick involving a actual rose, like a real flower. Okay, a trick involving Pokemon cards, come on, and a chop cup effect. All tricks from Michael's working professional repertoire. All right, so is the book well made. It is a softbound book, 106 pages. Like I said, it's self published. You're going to get color photographs. Michael writes easy enough to follow along with. The pages are tall. It's got a very clean, easy to read font. And I think it covers every aspect of the trick, you know, including tips, nuances, his inspiration for each effect, mostly as far as longevity, like each one of the tricks is about, I'll say four to five pages long. Michael does teach some of the basic skills needed, but of course, he is an advanced magician. And so there are several different slights and moves that he didn't create. So he's not, you know, allowed to teach you those effects. So he will reference those in bold or in quotations for you, but you will need to either know those in advance or go and find out how to do them. So I would say this book is probably targeted at an intermediate skill level magician. Positives. All right. So what are the positives for this book? You know, it is a self published book straight from the routines of an experienced working professional fans of something new will certainly enjoy Michael O'Brien's contributions and his creativity. Negatives. All right. So like we say around here, there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. I kind of wish he had had a stronger editor, just some of the format, layout, spelling, grammatics, just things like that. Nothing terrible, nothing eye catching, nothing popping and saying, nothing glaring, just little tiny things that maybe would separate a self published book from a professionally edited book. That's all. Who would like this? Like I said, people who like something new, people who just want to try out some new effects, people who relish and collect when creators actually share their inspired work, when people share their day in, day out routines, I think would get a big kick from Michael O'Brien's imagination project. All right. So that's my review of the imagination project from Michael O'Brien. I want to thank Michael O'Brien for allowing me to have this book so that I can do the review for you. And if you'd like to purchase this book for yourself, you can find it at his website or wherever quality magic tricks are sold. Thanks. Bye.