I received this deck a few days ago.
I like it. The artist, Astrid Amadori, is a competent illustrator and I like how she draws people, with expressive faces and postures, all with a nice economy of line. I think the images were colored on a computer, and I like this as well, the evenness of the colors goes well with the very efficient draftsmanship.
Cardstock and overall production is indeed superlative. My guess is Astrid went to one of the big deck printers like Cartamundi/AGM.
As avalonian says, there are lots of twists and interesting nooks and crannies. The card titles and images are influenced by RWS of course but seem more influenced by the Golden Dawn. I also agree with Metafizzypop, the images are very atmospheric.
In some ways I'm reminded of the Connolly in the way that the images seem mysterious and suggestive but also sometimes puzzling. Also like the Connolly, this deck seems to place an emphasis on a spiritual viewpoint.
On the negative side, I think sometimes she strives too hard to create images that illustrate several of the listed meanings and also, at the same time, contain ambiguous and possibly contradictory elements. That's a lot to pack into an image, and sometimes the result seems forced or too jumbled.
I'd recommend this deck for readers who'd like something GD-oriented and well-illustrated, with some surprising twists. I wouldn't call it out-of-the-box readable; you'd probably want to spend some time going through each card with the LWB to familiarize yourself with the artist's viewpoint.
I'm thoroughly immersed in Lenormand right now so I don't really have time to give this deck the attention it deserves. On the shelf it goes, but I'll almost certainly come back to it in the future and do a little study with it and see how it reads.
