While I appreciate the fast amounts of effort that writing and releasing anything takes, and the creativity in the concepts in this book, i genuinely believe it needed more time. More time so the intense emotions in its writing could cool, more time for the editors to catch contradictory ideas, and more time to consider whether this book was actually done.
It contains a lot of good ideas that make it worth the purchase, but it also contains unreasonable amounts of anger that the authors clearly had to work through. When you make multiple references to trump as the Tart can in office, and make Rudi Gulliani a Thallain agent with no hint of subtlety, youve lost your way when writing. "Damaged-Dreaming Deniers", mentions of Corona, throw away lines about police involvement with the evils of ICE, The Brotherhood Dauntain, and all that are tossed in and instantly date the book to the point i wouldnt be surprised if this book becomes incomprehensible to readers in just 10 years or so.
Then if you take the odd implementation of Fomorians as more a pantheon of handsome, sidhe like kings and valkyries which save and heal heroes instead of the Eldritch Elder Darkness that predate conscious thought that they truly are, alongside the strange, original sin like Tithed Ones which contradict the idea that Changelings are the intersection and merger of Fae and Human souls... it becomes a tiring read through.
Again, I believe that this book is worth your money and it does have good ideas but all of them must be taken on their own to make any sense. The prophets of the Fomorian faith in the Aslynthii, the wonderfully made up Maeghar kith that reintroduces a strange branch of the Kiasyd tree, the giant, burning eyeball in the skies of the Dreaming that embodies the actual horror of the Fomorians, the (admittedly pc like) story of Enphida the Goblin Queen who ascended to nigh Godhood through the dark ingenuity of her Kith, and much more all mean this book, again, is worth it.
A flawed, angry, perpetually cnn watching, treasure trove that contains a lot of fluff, but definitely worth it.
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