I don't know. In the second attempt I give the book to Gale and then in the camp make him eat it. Also I don't get the Astarion thing.
Reading your answers I get the fact that I did something wrong at some point so I'm gonna redo this part (I want Astarion being the one to talk to dead ones, it's silly but I found a bit of irony of a kind of undead, like a vampire is, doing the deed

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