First of all, I hope all you wonderful shiny happy people are enjoying the start of the weekend?
This is my first ever review on here and I honestly can’t think of a better way to kick it off than with IRIS by Lewis Le Val and The 1914.
Now let me start by saying that although I’m a massive fan of readings and reading systems, that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m going to start gushing over this without giving it a fair amount of thought, I want all my reviews to be as fair as possible!
Right away we go…
I’m no stranger to The 1914 and I expect you aren’t either?
But for those that may not be familiar with The 1914 (Why not?).
Let me just say this; The 1914 appear to choose quality over quantity when releasing new products into the magic community, which is really quite refreshing these days!
To say I was excited for IRIS may be a slight understatement, I had pre ordered this through Alakazam magic and I was eagerly awaiting its release.
I’m very familiar with the work of Lewis Le Val, and his style of performing is very much to my liking.
I received notification that IRIS was due to be delivered Wednesday and when I got home from work late Wednesday night, I opened my package and had a quick look inside.
But as I work unsociable hours Monday to Thursday, it had to wait until Friday to receive my full attention.
So what is Iris?
IRIS allows you to divine a specific and important area of life that your participant is thinking of.
It allows you to give an impressive psychic reading centred around this area of their life, you proceed to amaze them further by revealing a personal piece of information you couldn’t possibly have known in advance; their star sign!
In Lewis’s own words “IRIS is a beautiful reading system that doesn’t use stock lines and every time you perform IRIS you’ll be generating a brand new reading.”
Quite a bold claim I thought, let’s check it out and see if he’s walking the walk or just talking the talk…
What you get:
A beautifully embossed small envelope style package
Inside is a similar but smaller embossed package which contains the cards for the IRIS reading system.
I had expected to get two credit card style cards with Iris, so I was a little disappointed to see that they were what looked like two ordinary business cards, ‘well this won’t be any good in bars or anywhere around drinks, once they get wet they’ll be ruined.’
I thought rather smugly to myself!
Oh how wrong was I?
Upon closer inspection they appear to be made from a durable plastic material, which is completely waterproof and should easily last for many performances.
Moving on to the instructions:
As is the norm these days, you receive a link to a web page where you can watch the video instructions.
I don’t like that I can’t download the video file to my home pc, as I like to back everything up on my hard drive.
But I do understand that it has to be this way because of those pesky
Pirates!
The video starts off with an introduction from Lewis explaining exactly what IRIS is. We then see Lewis performing it for a young lady, it’s a very upbeat and positive performance and the young lady seems genuinely shocked and pleased with her reading.
Now for the explanation:
I had high expectations for this reading system and I can tell you I most definitely was not disappointed.
The method is ingenious; the cards literally do everything for you and what’s more you have a completely natural reason for them being there.
There is a very small amount of memory work involved but don’t let that put you off, it’s literally a few words and there’s an age old mnemonic/acronym to help you remember, it also has a little addition that Lewis has created specifically for this project and better yet it’s hidden in plain sight.
Lewis’s explanations are very direct and to the point, he explains really simply how he performs readings and how you can adopt the same methods for yourself.
Who is this good for?
This is absolutely brilliant for the beginner that wants to start giving readings, as well as the working professional who is looking for other ways to present readings.
Final thoughts:
I was pleasantly surprised at how simple yet deceptively fooling the IRIS reading system is and the cards will be living inside my wallet for a long time to come.
Lewis is definitely a man who can talk the talk, as well as walk the walk.
I fully recommend this for anybody who is interested in mentalism or looking to start giving readings.
The only thing stopping me from giving IRIS a 10 is the fact that I can’t download my instructions directly and I would’ve preferred thicker cards.
With that said, I can’t justify rating this anything less than
9 out of 10!
If you have any thoughts on IRIS or if you’d like me to review anything specifically, then reach out through the comments or the contact page.
Take care my friends
Ryan