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The new Cerberus style feats look amazing at first glance. Although I noticed an issue with them.
Cerberus Style has the prerequisites of Cleave, Improved Unarmed Strike, and BAB 6 or monk 6. Cerberus Snare has the prerequisites of Cerberus Crush, BAB 9 or monk 9. Cerberus Crush has the prerequisites of Cerberus Snare, Cerberus Style, Vital Strike, and BAB 13 or monk 13.
The error here is pretty obvious, you are unable to take either feat in the Cerberus Style chain due to not, by the rules, meeting the prereqs. I personally believe Cerberus Snare is supposed to have Cerberus Style as a prereq instead of Cerberus Crush, but I could be wrong. I know they don't errata splatbooks often, but I doubt it was intended to never be able to take the feat chain.
P.S. on a side note, you can take Master of Many Styles 1 and grab Cerberus Style, and skip needing Cleave since it's not part of the prereqs of any later feat.
That's how I read it the first time. After a reread it's exactly as you say.
Fun sidebar: Corsair fighter gives Cleave for free at level 2 without meeting prereqs, and eliminates the penalty to AC.
Definitely an error, and given the prerequisites you cite, it's pretty clear that cerberus snare was supposed to have cerberus style as its prerequisite rather than cerberus crush.