REVIEW: How Not to Get Eaten by Owlbears: A Survival Guide for the Forgotten Realms (book) by Anne Toole

How Not to Get Eaten by Owlbears is a fictional guide. I bought my copy new.

Review:

I've played D&D a grand total of once. It was fun, although I never fully got the hang of how things worked.

I picked this up because the title sounded fun and I loved the owlbear artwork on the cover. Judging by a wiki I just looked up, the book's contents barely scratch the surface of what a fictional guide for the Forgotten Realms might cover, but hey, a general overview with a few specific tidbits here and there is fine when you're a newbie like me. 

This is written from the POV of Falgriss, a dragonborn ranger who traveled with Volo (who I was also previously unfamiliar with). It includes occasional advice about places to visit (or avoid), local monsters and other things to be aware of, etc. - viewing it as a travel guide of sorts, it's too broad in its content and skimpy on details to be of much use, like buying, say, a brief guidebook to all of Europe. Still, it was an easy read and I enjoyed the humor. I only wish the book's physical size had been larger - the artwork (and some of the text) was smaller than I'd have liked. A larger page-size would have showed off some of the details better.