Mother of Learning: ARC 3
Ratings19
Average rating4.1
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Ratings19
Average rating4.1
The time loop is coming to an end. With limited restarts remaining, Zorian and his allies must redouble their efforts to discover how they can prevent the release of an ancient primordial being once the time loop expires and they are returned to the real world—where choices can’t be undone.
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4 primary books5 released booksMother of Learning is a 5-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Domagoj Kurmaic and nobody103.
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4.00/5.00
A great third act for this story. Packed with action as usual, exellent plot twist at the end, and a spectacular cliffhanger! The character work suffers here very much. The main charcters don't make much progress emotionally or learning anything new about themselves. The writing is so average that it can only be described as “not bad”.
Overall highly recommeded! Great fun book to enjoy to break up the monotony of other book. I mostly use these books as “audiobook” material, since I think the worldbuilding is basic enough to warrant low attention to terminologies and names.
Emotional Impact -> Great fun, several small battles, one massive battle and lots of adventure and magic fun. I do think that this book felt like a filler book to develop the character's magic ability without any much signifcant character development. Characters -> This is the weakest part of this book, but still not bad. Imaya, Alanic, Damon -> good. Zack, Zorian -> not much change. Others boring. No kirielle so I was bored with characters. This book also feels the least emotional so far, turning into hard lit-RPG.Plot -> hmmm... the intricacies of the plot are good. The story and the world tie togther seamlessly! But pretty basic adventure plot for this one, with an excellent twist at the end. Prose -> Just not good. not bad, but not good either. World Building -> Lots of fun magic worldbuilding. But the simulacrums and the combat magic in this book were not as fun as mind magic in book 2. Nothing was as good as ARANEA in book 1. I hope the final book returns the magic of book 1.
Overall, this was a great continuation of the series, despite some pacing issues. I enjoyed the focus on personal growth in this book. Usually, the series emphasizes magical ability growth, so this shift was a refreshing change of pace. I also really enjoyed the expanded world-building and experiencing new areas outside of Ibasan. The plot did start to drag in the middle, but I believe this is due to its origins as a web novel, which may lack a solid beginning, middle, and end.
