The Lessons Never Learned by Rob J. Hayes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Review now live at Grimdark Magazine The Lessons Never Learned is Book Two of the War Eternal trilogy, that began with the fantastic Along the Razor’s Edge . “Opinions are like children. Those who have them want them to be special, rarely realizing they are just as dumb and ugly as all the others.” With this in mind, I’ll go forth with my review. Now, before we start to worry that The Lessons Never Learned will suffer from middle-book syndrome as so many bridge novels in trilogies seem to do, let me state right here that this is not the case. I would actually compare this more to the classic Empire Strikes Back level of middle-books, the perhaps rare case where the bridge is better than the ends. I don’t know (yet) if it’s better than Book Three, but I would venture to say that if you enjoyed Book One, you will like this at least as much. Eskara Helsene and her companions have esc...
