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The Lessons Never Learned by Rob J. Hayes

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lucasreads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

semellark's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

itsfreelancer's review against another edition

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5.0

I've a love-hate relationship with the protagonist. One one side, she's someone I love to read about and on the other, if she was real, I definitely wouldn't want to be near her.

This book definitely fulfils half of the grandiose claims about her stature that we read about in book 1. I had a feeling it would be more like the Name of the Wind, where Kvothe's claims are yet to be justified.

But yeah, a solid 4.5 for a fast paced one directional plot. The final part waits but I'll probably read something else before I jump into it.

diana8524's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

cris3ma's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

cassidychivers's review

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4.0

The pacing in this book really frustrated me. As the first half of this book was very slow and made me notice the repetitive nature of Hayes writing. He often over describes characters and things to us. Repeatedly telling us Hardt is big and tall, Tamara is crazy, some girl put suicidal thoughts in her head and a bunch more. Around 50% I was so sick of hearing these things. I thought this book was going to be three stars. It was ending up very slice of life just watching Eska do things daily.

THEN
We hit 60% and I was like WOW this is what I had wanted the entire time.
The expansion of the world, magic and characters was done really well.
The last half of this book was 5 star worthy for me. But sadly the first half brought my rating down.
In the end I enjoyed it a little less then the first! But have honestly already started book three! Which says a lot about this ending.

Also I do find Hayes heavy handed but I also find him very insightful. I'm not one to annotate my books but find myself wishing I had physical copies to highlight lines in.