Miriam Michalak's Reviews > The Lessons Never Learned

In The Lessons Never Learned our feisty hero Eska is finally free of the Pit. With a motley group of companions, an otherworld entity hitching a ride and enemies on her tail the race is on to find a place of safety and start planning her revenge.

As we follow Eska through the world of Ovaeris, it’s races, magic system, gods and legends, are vividly brought to life. Rob J. Hayes worldbuilding is magnificent – I especially loved the floating city of Ro’shan.

Rob is not kind to our Eska, with the story told from her POV I was emotionally dragged from pillar to post going through every hardship with her. She has powerful enemies, some closer to home than we would wish. With each discovery she makes we see how deliciously complex and interconnected the world(s) she inhabits are – and it’s terrifyingly wonderful.

Well paced with excellent prose which pulled me in from the very first page and fantastically unique world – The Lessons Never Learned is a book I won’t forget for quite a while.