I like this book. The material covered, the level of detail and the inclusion of MATLAB scripts make this a timely, relevant and very useful textbook. As the authors note, the book works very well in combination with Pollard & Fletcher (2005), Fossen (Reference Pollard and Fletcher2010), Nye (Reference Fossen1985) and Press et al. (Reference Press, Flannery, Teukolsky and Vetterling1986); all these volumes should be in the library of any serious quantitative geologist. The level of material is suited to senior undergraduates or above. The MATLAB code is available from the publishers web site, which should avoid any transcription errors from the many code fragments included in the text. The MATLAB scripts are well written and well commented, and can easily form the foundation of more ambitious individual projects. Making no pretensions to be a general structural geology text, the authors boldly present an analysis of rock deformation based on tensorial algebra. I think it works. It's difficult to find anything wrong with the book, but seismic moment tensors have largely been omitted (although arguably beyond the realm of ‘pure’ structural geology), and there is no discussion of tensors for anisotropic material properties, such as elasticity, viscosity or thermal conductivity (but again, analysis of Nye (Reference Fossen1985) should suffice). I think this book will help structural geologists – of all levels – make that critical leap from purely geometrical analyses, through kinematics and into the underlying continuum mechanics of rock deformation. A worthy addition to your bookshelf.