Magic Tricks

I was excited to get this book. Other reviewers spoke highly of the method and particularly the justification for the peek move, so I bought it hoping to add it to an existing routine of mine.
As is so often the case with magic products, though, there are limitations to the method that weren't discussed. In short, the idea is great and it can be turned into a strong routine but it has constraints that mean it won't work in every situation. I was hoping this would give me another alternative to a centre tear or peek wallet, but that's not what this is. It's NOT just a clever method and handling for a peek from a blank set of billets, which I thought it would be. The routine requires two unexpected things:

1. that you pre-write on all but one or two of the billets (meaning there's a little re-set after each time you do the trick - it's not just a blank set of billets),
2. that your routine involve ONE freely-written word from a spectator, and ONE other spectator choosing one of the pre-written billets.

Your routine must therefore use two spectators. You can't do this for just one person, so it's not like a centre tear or a Sight Unseen Case/peek wallet etc. Getting the peek requires having a second spectator involved, and revealing their word which is one of the pre-written choices (not a freely thought-of word).

I can think of some ways to make this work for me and I might add this to my repertoire, but I was a little disappointed that other reviewers failed to mention the necessity of having two spectators involved, and a pre-written selection of force cards.
The book is clearly written and there's a handful of interesting ideas for alternative routines etc., and I can see many mentalists getting good mileage out of it.