If you're a bit obsessed with tests and ways to understand more about yourself, you will enjoy this book thoroughly. It has 25 different tests (each are pretty much one to two pages long) and each test is based on a different concept so by the end of the book, you've found out quite a lot about yourself and have learned about 25 new areas to research.

While I knew about some of these (MBTI, Enneagram, etc.) there were some that I had never heard of (Sparktest) and some that I knew about but not in detail (Jungian archetypes.) At the end of the book, the author lists a lot of resources where you can spend many more Sunday afternoons digging into all sorts of personality types and research and have endless fun while discovering things about yourself.

The design and presentation of this book is also wonderful and makes it a jot to read.

With gratitude to netgalley and Wellfleet Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very colourful book which was so much fun to read and do the quizzes. I’m not sure I learnt a lot about myself that I didn’t already know.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

The Book of Personality Tests
25 Easy to Score Tests that Reveal the Real You
by Haulwen Nicholas
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group – Wellfleet Press
Genre: Health, Mind & Body | Self-Help
Release Date: September 15, 2020

This was such a great collection of personality tests. They seemed well thought out and there was introductory information about the tests, as well as easy to understand results. There was also a great reference section at the end the assist in further study.

I found most of the tests to be on point to what I know about myself. Some of them, like "What Kind of Astronaut Are you?" seemed silly at first, but the explanation behind it provided some depth and insight. (I'm a Spaceflight Participant, which was completely on point, my days of wanting to lead a mission are behind me.)

Like with any personality test, the answered can be influenced by preconception, mood, level of distraction, and place in life. I enjoyed the test "What is Your Relationship to Money?" because I was able to see my personal growth in this area of my life. I reached a point in my life where I am a Savvy Saver/Spender which feels pretty comfortable and secure the stress living as Hey Big Spender caused.

I would definitely recommend this book. It takes an easy to read and understand approach to personality tests without judgement helps you look at different aspects of your life from a different angle.

I'm so grateful to Haulwen Nicholas, Wellfleet Press, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

I've been interested in personality tests since my 10th grade teacher introduced the Meyers Briggs test. Now as a teacher myself, I've been looking for interesting content to add to my classroom library. The Book of Personality Tests is so interesting, I'm sure my students will love it! My personal favorites were "Are You Honest with Yourself?" and "What is Your Stress Type?". If you're a fan of other personality tests or even horoscopes, I'm sure you will love this book! There are a total of 25 tests to take, and well worth the money.

As someone who when to school for Psychology, this book definitely peaked my interest. I really enjoyed going through each test and did find myself surprised at a few of the outcomes. From "what kind of astronaut are you?" to "are you a psychopath?" and everything in between, there is certainly something for everyone! I think this would be a fun book to take on a road trip with friends/family!

Side note: I am not a psychopath but a peacekeeping, sky blue, ambivert who would most likely be a science officer if I were an astronaut.

Are you a person who likes to take personality tests? Are you looking for a fun way to learn more about yourself or to reinforce what you might already know or suspect? If yes, this book is for you.

Included are 25 tests. Some of those included are: Are You an Introvert or an Extrovert?; Are You Honest with Yourself?; What is Your Stress Type?; What Type of Rule Breaker Are You?; What is Your Role in Your Family? and more.

The author of this book notes that when she did the well-known Myers-Briggs test, it validated who she knew that she was. She found that to be helpful. These personality quizzes may do that or they may teach you something new about yourself.

The book begins with some background on personality including sections on Freud and Jung. Then, there are the quizzes. I enjoyed doing them and reading what my aggregate score for each meant.

This book is entertaining and may provide readers with some helpful insights. I recommend it for those who are fans of these tests.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this book. All opinions are my own.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the Publisher for sending me a copy.

I spend a significant part of my leisure time researching about different personality traits. So, undoubtedly I was thrilled that a book similar to my I spend a significant time of my leisure time researching about different personality traits. So, undoubtedly I was thrilled that a book similar to my needs was being published.

The book and the tests didn't fail me. In fact, I was surprised by the creativity behind each test.

There was only one common assesment(are you an introvert or an extrovert). The rest of assesments were inspired by famous tests, but with their own twist.

The tests were fairly easy to fill and calculate, and the whole book didn't take more than 3 hours.

Personally, I learned a lot and had a great time, and I will look out for similar books in the future.

This was such a fun book! My sister and I spent a night answering the test questions and learning a little more about ourselves. We had some a-ha moments which was great. I aloved how colorful the book was as well. It made us look closely at every page to see what was eing said to us.

The strength of this book is the little snippets before each personality test explaining the origin of different personality tests and theories. I would have liked to have seen those expanded. I didn’t find any of the tests too interesting, though others might find them fun/cute. They weren’t anything I’d spend money on, as better/more thorough personality quizzes are available online. The use of “find your tribe” and of “spirit animals” doesn’t feel very 2020, especially since the explanation of the origin of spirit animals was so short/surface-level. The layout of the book was cute.

‘The Book of Personality Tests’ by Haulwen Nicholas is full of interesting and useful personality tests: from the well-known ones such as tests to find out whether you are extrovert or introvert, to the test revealing what’s your spirit animal (apparently it’s a hare). The book has a lovely package, each test is accompanied by simple but fitting artwork, and each is easy to navigate.

Paradoxically it’s the ones I thought I knew answers to, I ended up having different results than expected, as for instance with the first test. Doing a similar one years ago in school, unsurprisingly I was labelled introvert. This time around, my results ended on ambivert and weren’t far from extroverted personality type. But I think Haulwen Nicholas makes a good job out of underlying that people change their behaviour and learn to fit into certain situations as they grew up.

I think that ‘The Book of Personality Tests’ is a useful resource for figuring out a few more things about your personality type if you haven’t done that previously as well as learning to understand those around you – why they behave the way they do and why some people react to other situation differently to you.

I’m definitely that person who does all the Facebook quizzes to find out “which Harry Potter character are you?” Or “pick a colour and we’ll tell you your personality” so I loved this book.

Each quiz was only 12 questions long making them nice and quick and each had a small paragraph explaining the psycho-science behind them.

Now some of the quizzes I knew my result just from the title “What is your relationship to money?” or "are you spontaneous or a planner?"...I'm terrible with money and I barely have a spontaneous bone in my body so those ones were a no brainer.

But then there the quizzes that really did give me some insight into myself. I enjoyed finding out what my core archetype was and I’ve done the "introvert or extrovert?" test lots of times and I nearly always get introvert. which agree with but also think there are times when I’m an extrovert. According to this book I'm an ambivert which I'd never heard of and means that I sit in between.

There were the super fun ones too. “What kind of astronaut are you?” and “what is your spirit animal?”. Mine was the owl by the way, because I’m wise and dependable. Though my partner would probably argue that it’s because I like to nap during the day and then I’m awake all night.


Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the book, both testing it on myself and other people and to get through the boredom of COVID restrictions.

This was an awesome book full of different types of tests. I love how the author puts her own personality into it. The tests themselves are about twelve questions, which makes it a short and fun “game” and it has great explanations of each answer that can help one understand not only more about themselves, but others as well. She also gives you a bit of history about the actual test and who they were inspired by, as well is history on personality studies. Nice layout, very eye-pleasing, and great fun.

This was a great book to try.
I found the different personality tests were great fun to try and found out lots of snippets about myself.
Enjoyable and didn't take long to do each one either.

Haulwen Nicholas' "The Book of Personality Tests" is absolutely phenomenal! I love the layout and designs interlaced throughout the book. The tests are easy to understand and short, which is really helpful. I think it can be great to do with your partner and can be great discussion partners. I definitely recommend this book for those who want to learn about themselves and others!

What a fun book! I learned so much about myself doing the 25 included personality tests, including the well-known Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram, as well as new tests I’d not done before. I received detailed feedback on such areas as emotional intelligence, money management aptitude, leadership skills, and love language style. A great gift for anyone into self-growth — or quiz-taking just for the fun of it!

5 of 5 Stars

Pub Date 15 Sep 2020

Thanks to the author, Quarto Publishing Group – Wellfleet Press, and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.

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