New Deck ...without a book

Hi... I don't have the money so I don't have the deck, but I've been grooving on the Dark Mansion deck's artwork for a bit. Apparently there is no book for this deck -- I read through a bunch of reviews and several reviewers point out that if there's anything "wrong" with this deck, it's that it's probably a bad "starter" deck because there's no book, guide, pamphlet, etc. (Many of the reviewers sounded as if it was painful to admit they found something they didn't like!) For the most part, this deck seems to be a new "skin" for the classic Rider-Waite-Smith deck, so the general card meanings are unchanged. The fly in the ointment is that the imagery on a card can have a powerful effect on its meaning and/or interpretation, so just going verbatim with what's written in a standard RWS deck's guidebook is probably not 100% A Good Thing. If you're familiar with the tarot, I'd suggest using the standard RWS interpretations as a foundation and then build on those according to what your gut tells you when looking at & holding one of the DM cards. If you're new to tarot or lack a solid sense of confidence in your interpretations, then perhaps grabbing a few different RWS reading guides from the Internet (there are gobs & gobs of free guides out there ranging from one-page cheat sheets to actual full-blown books), work up a couple of paragraphs for each card based on at least 2-3 different sources, and then edit according to how each of the DM deck's cards "talks" to you. I don't know if they'll be able to help you (I'm sure the deck's creators already have their hands full), but just in case you don't have it the URL for the creators' website is http://www.taroteca-studio.com (they're in Poland but when I went to the site it was in English).

Brian thanks so much! I do have a free guide saved now, and I just got a book today to read and learn more about the cards I feel like this deck is “friendly“ vs my first deck. My first deck seems a bit negative....

Thanks again for the comment 💕