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This Exploring Azeroth: Kalimdor book is similar to the Eastern Kingdoms book in the series. We follow representatives of the Horde as they tour the Horde-leaning continent of Kalimdor. Along the way get to see all the ways the story-line for the Horde has been completely botched over the years. Major characters have made uncharacteristic blunders that makes anyone's trust in the leadership unbelievable. This book tries its best to make sense of it and does a pretty good job. It still feels like a big stretch much of the time though. That's not the author's fault though.

This might be a useful book for people interested in starting off in modern-era WoW or former players looking to rejoin and feeling lost. Christie Golden, of course, does a fantastic job presenting this world she helped build.

Lon Milo DuQuette does a great job with this text. It does manage to make some of Crowley's thoughts and practices much more clear. I do wonder if some purists are flopping their arms in the air about DuQuette interpreting some things, but he's careful to make clear that his goal is to make the path clearer rather than to escort the reader down it. He offers how one might interpret things without declaring what is correct or not. Crowley on his own is not always intelligible to me, so I can see how this book would be a useful starting point to someone practicing Thelema.

This was a fun read, but I can't say that it functions as a full intro to Qabalah. It's simply too short to establish that kind of foundation. On the other hand, it's short enough to go through quickly if you want some notions on the topic.

Manly P. Hall has a bad habit of very confidently claiming things without proof or that are just wrong. I'm not saying he's completely or even mostly accurate in this book, but nothing jumped out at me as inexcusable. I may have just missed something or maybe the tone is truly different here, but at least he wasn't smugly declaring that Romani people in Europe were descended from Egyptian priests.

While I can't say it blew my mind or anything, this text was a solid example of the genre.

This text is a little more direct than most in talking about Qabalah. It's a complex topic, of course, but somehow Eliphas Levi manages to present it in ways that aren't needlessly weirder than they need to be.