I normally find most of the "Legendary" books rather fun and well written, however, as David C. pointed out this tome has many flaws, which prevent the book from being as great as it could have been. Therefore, with a saddened heart, I have to rate this as being "1" star. :(

This tome is outstanding! Get it, read it, use it! It's as simple as that. The writing, flavor, art everything is top notch. There is something in this tome for everybody. Just one caveat; this is a compilation, rebalance, and update of all previous books in the "Path" series. After purchase this tome was unanimously nominated as a "core" rulebook for my gaming group.

Cheers

I have picked up a few different hybrid classes from Wayward Rogues Publishing and most run the gamit from decent to great, however, this product was a huge let down. The abilities seem disparate and to me there lacks a truly unifying theme for the class and it's associated abilities (one of the main themes is summoning a spiked chain which is all well and good but how does this reflect a cleric/sorcerer hybrid). Also, I would have liked to see more thematic abilities based on one of the aspects of the class: pain.Somethig like this:

Pained Beneveloence (Ex): Your pain is clear for all to see. Your suffereing invokes pangs of guilt and a heedless need to assist you in the hopes of helping to alleviate your anguish. This grants the hellpriest a bonus equal to x to bluff and diplomacy checks.

Overall ... it seems a hodgepodge of abilities accept for the progression of the summoned spiked chain.

I bought this product on a whim hoping that it would provide a decent interpretation of the iconic bladesinger. Instead I purchased, what seems to me, an unfinished and highly incoherent product. I had to stop reading once I realized the class receives barbarian rage powers not to mention the odd BaB progression and grammar mistakes. My only wish would be to receive a refund. I know that's unlikely so in an attempt to prevent others from making the same mistake consider this message fair warning.