Book Review – Pagan Portals Brigantia: Warrior Goddess by Pauline Breen

Book Review

Brigantia: Warrior Goddess

By Pauline Breen

Publisher: Moon Books

112 pages, Kindle and Paperback

Release Date: August 1, 2025

This book presents itself with a fascinating topic a powerful Celtic Warrior Goddess, but if this was a battle field the book falls to a sword while still in the introduction pages.

The author repeatedly uses the phrases I think, I feel, In my opinion, It appears, Maybe and so forth. It becomes glaringly obvious that there sadly is not much substance to the book overall.

The author while still in the introduction section admits that there is scant information upon which to draw from for the writing of this book. Due to this profound confession the entirety of the material is filled with the authors Unverifiable Personal Gnosis (UPG) and this is not a great place from which to endeavor to write a book.

The first and second chapters of this book are primarily a history lesson of Great Britian and while the author strives to connect the material to the topic of the Warrior Goddess Brigantia if this was a souffle it would have collapsed in failure under its own weight. Many of the connections made are circumstantial at best and blatantly wrong at worst.

Chapter three is literally titled Brigantia, however it spends a lot of the time talking more about the Roman deities and many others instead of the one the book is actually about. This chapter also covers a lot about other classical deities and the resulting issue is that the guest of honor gets lost in the filler content instead of being the focus that should be driving this project.

Chapter four of the book is called connecting with Brigantia. In this chapter the material presented starts with a sharing of the journey that the author took which feels really out of place. Next animals, colors, stones and other items are presented for their ability to assist with connecting to the Goddess. As with the previous chapters again the material presented is rife with the authors personal opinions and feelings. As a result, everything comes across lackluster and useless for how the individual reading the book could make a meaningful connection of their own with the Goddess.

While there are some good books about the Goddess Brigantia this is not one of them and there is nothing more to say about this book other than check it out at a library if you are really desiring to read it but please do not spend money on this as it is a let down in regards to what it could have been.

Pauline Breen

She has written three books on Brigid: This is Brigid – Goddess and Saint which was self-published, Maman Brigitte and finally Brigantia. She lives in Offaly Ireland. She is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and outside of work in her spiritual life she is also a Priestess of Brigid.