I enjoyed this book a lot.
It features an astonishing amount of new undead enemies, many of them quite creative.
A few enemies (about 2), however, are also found in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. I am unsure why there is this overlap, since they don't seem to have the same illustrations or stat blocks.
The rest of the more than 100 enemies are all good and useful. I will certainly be using them in my coming games.
I am especially fond of the templates this book supplies, since they can be applied to most any monster, and really help flesh out a force of undead with more varied and surprising foes.
There are two reasons this supplement does not get a 5/5 review from me.
1) Although most monsters have illustrations, there are a bunch of them, where I don't think the illustration fits the description at all.
2) The book lacks well-rounded-ness. There are a few editing errors (including spelling, though that is not so bad), and the illustrations for monsters are in jarringly different styles.
All in all I really recommend this book. It is well worth the 10 dollars I paid for it, and I think you will have the same experience.
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