Ok, around this point, I’ve “read”, but not fully poured through the individual sections to see what effect they have on our games, but here are a few key notes.
Base Classes
New base classes. Are they good, or just gimmick classes? I’m not sure to be honest. After so many base classes being introduced, I find it harder and harder to determine whether a character is going to be balanced anymore by say 8th or 9th level. Still, they are interesting:
Beguilers are rogue-casters, if you like rogue types but wanted to have an extensive magical repertoire, give these guys a try. The ability to wear light armor, trapfinding, and able to use trickery to make their saves more difficult on spells, all add up to a very tricky fellow with a large number of skills (6+i) and a decent number of spells (sorcerer style).
Dragon Shaman is a decent class, though I find it hard to determine how useful they are. Ever wanted to really really play a dragon disciple but it just doesn’t make sense for an arcane caster? If so, give the dragon shaman a shot. BAB of a cleric, hit dice of a fighter, many special abilities of a paladin, and a breath weapon you can use as a cone or ray every 1d4 rounds, all add up to a very interesting draconic class. The class is centered around the idea of auras, a game concept that seems to be getting more and more common in D&D. If you’re still on the fence, you gain draconic wings at lvl 19, isn’t that enough?
How many prestige classes allow you to play fighter mages? Three, four? I don’t know offhand, but quite a few prestige classes have tried to recapture an old D&D staple: the fighter mage. Finally they’ve just gone ahead and introduced a base class to satisfy the obvious demand: the DuskBlade. Duskblades are fighter types who gain the ability to cast spells instead of bonus fighter feats. They begin with the ability to wear light armor while casting, but eventually can wear medium. 
At first I was dubious about the value of the class. I mean, in our combats, most combats are short, so how useful is it to be able to cast a spell to buff yourself, only to have the battle end the next round? Then I bothered to read the class, at lvl 3 they can cast a spell at the “Same” time through their attack. Shocking grasp through your long sword anyone? But what about Bull’s Strength? At higher levels you get the ability to “quick cast” spells as a free action once or twice a day, allowing you to self-buff yourself. I liked this class so much I made a character for one of the pbfs in our forums, you can view Xaeraes Tuneir
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Whats the last class? It’s called The Knight. ZZZzzzzz. Sorry everyone, I couldn’t read it, too boring for me, if I keep writing these reviews, you’ll see that I like crazier things than this... Jenn told me they are kind of like warrior bards, calling people out and inspiring their fellow warriors to greatness. Ok, whatever, if you want to do a non-magical paladin, maybe this is for you.
Dang, what happened? This was supposed to be a summary section. Ok, this next bit really will be a summary