That’s correct, there’s little echo chambers online where people get entrenched into one way of thinking and get annoyed at others who think differently. The nail that sticks up… But really that’s their prerogative, we all have to follow our own paths, it’s up to each individual as to whether you want to join them or do your own thing.
It’s incorrect that everything in the book is available online. Some of it is new work by BALG authors. You can probably find something that would do the same job though.
As far as I know, based on what E.A. says about it on his Oddyssey channel, it a mixture of traditional and new spells. It was created in response to the many many requests we get in this forum for black magick style love spells.
If you want to spend the effort to research online, separate the wheat from the chaff and build your love spell knowledge that way, there’s no reason not to. If you already did that the book probably won’t have as much for you, but has some new ideas for adepts to think about as well.
If you’re new to love magick and want to know what works and not have to spend months researching first, the book gets you a leg up.
We also have collected our favourite forum posts about love spells here, on BALG it’s a little easier to find than searching the entire web but it’s still a mix of UGP and minimally tested spells mixed in with time tested stuff. This megathread attempts to collect the popular stuff that seems to work for most.
I think it depends what you want to do. IF you want to become adept in all forms of love magick, I’d say go for it, this book and other works on sex magick would be part of your book collection.
If all you want is one spell and you’re never going to cast another, you can try one and if you have your intention set right and the energy flows agree it’ll work and you’re done.
I think the book is pretty cheap compared to paying for services and I like collecting knowledge so I don’t really see what the beef is myself Having that that I don’t own it because I never do love spells, and if I wanted to later I already know how.