Positive points - many pieces, varied, sometimes by well-known composers - pieces by the authors, that's always a plus - the pieces are sorted by position - the drawings are always nice - it covers quite a few concepts: shifts, spiccato, shifts, martelé, vibrato, pizzicato which can allow some autonomy later on - at the beginning, there are exercises by strings to get back into it, which I find good Negative points - only the first position was seen in volume 1 and there is no indication for positions never studied which is very limiting - no summary of finger positions, which is a shame especially for beginners who are just coming out of the first volume and may have memory gaps/need to review - it's written too small, the sheet music is too small - not enough spacing, unlike volume 1 which was perfect in this regard - The mix of French/German/English and Spanish is unmanageable: it overloads the pages, it's unreadable, it takes up space and brings nothing. At best maybe French/English and even then. Or really if the authors want an international book, make clear separations between languages for each page even if it means making boxes or text blocks with the sheet music below - the references of the pieces are still not very precise (e.g. Mozart's Minuet, he includes several) In conclusion, I find that there are really good things in this method but improvements in form could make it a very good tool. Not suitable for self-taught players coming out of volume 1, you need to have seen the positions presented before.