I've been entirely blown away by this book. The new character options are brilliant, the items are fun, the campaign frames incredibly well fleshed out, and the adversaries are both inventive and numerous. This gives me everything I want and more.
If I was to really search for critiques then I fires my biggest one as that I'm not especially impressed by the hedge witch. A Hedge Mage is such a brilliant fantasy staple, and this came away as feeling like more of a grab-bag of random witchy features rather than a subclass about subverting established casting norms and creating your own style of magic. Still, if my biggest gripe is a single subclass not perfectly fitting my exact vision for a particular theme, I'd call that a success. My players are ravenously tearing into the book, and I'm so excited that everything arrived early!
I'll finish my review by just touching on what I think might be one of the most emotionally impactful snippets I've read, and yet that I don't think I've seen anyone else even mention. I absolutely love the Reborne community. This is for a character that has been isolated from their community and now finds themselves more defined by the people around them. What I find especially touching though was seeing how you could make the choice to eventually adopt a new community... or even swap to this after losing your connection to your original community. The fact this option exists adds so much more meaning to every aspect of play. When an Orderborne watches their city burn to the ground and decide NOT to swap to Reborne, that decision suddenly carries weight. The player is declaring that even if their community is lost, they still carry its impact with them. This little page-long community actually got me a bit weepy.
The entire book is filled with so many wonderful little bits like that. This is the perfect expansion not because it simply adds so much (though it does do that, too). This is perfect because so much of what it adds just adds to the richness of everything Daggerheart already provided us. Everyone involved in this project should take a bow and pat themselves on the back.