I love celtic tattoos, and I was expecting a book written on the celtic tattoos you find on the people this days. On the other hand, it talks about the tattoos the Kells made on themselves, and not really in a historical way, but in a estetical way (how they look, and what were the variations of their tattoos a thousand years ago). Honestly, it's good paper, but not much printed on it, and the best tattoo you'll see on the book is on the front page.

I am in the process of going to a Celtic tattoo specialist @ Lucky Fish Tattoo in Santa Barbara, CA. I have 1 celtic tattoo, 10 total tattoos and in a month will have a custom celtic tattoo done. I have been waiting to get this book for a bazillion months and when I finally did I found it to be the biggest waste of time. I never imagined with the great subject matter that a book could be more insignifigant. The designs lack uniqueness in the book, there are few, and they also lack the detail of the meaning. This book trys to take the beautiful and amazing art of tattooing celtic design and verbalize it and use black and white pictures. Wasted $$ and time.