I rated this book only because Amazon doesn't allow a reviewer to pass on this part of the process. In fact, I have nothing to say about its merits or shortcomings -- except that there are a couple of options that some readers may not know about.

For those who can read Hebrew: Rabbi Yechiel Bar-Lev authored Yedid Nefesh al Ha-Zohar, a fourteen volume Aramaic / Hebrew translation with two levels of commentary and some interesting scholarly digresions in the margins. This series does for the Zohar what Rav Adin Steinsaltz and Artscroll have done for the Talmud.

Another equally fine Aramaic / Hebrew translation with a clear digest of commentaries that "takes you by the hand" through the text is the encyclopedic Matok Me-Dvash authored by the late Rabbi Daniel Frisch of Jerusalem. He also published Matok Me-Dvash on the Tikkunei Zohar (which relies heavily of Chassidic master Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Munkatch's Be'er Lechai Ro'i).

Both are written by superlative scholars who are bonafide kabbalists rather than academics.