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Mother of Learning

Book · Fantasy books · 14 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/Fantasy

Reddit take

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Pros

  • Ohh I remember reading Mother of Learning some years back. It is pretty good. Stellar ending.
  • Mother of Learning - Damagoj Kurmaic. Awesome time loop story.
  • The prose may not be great but the internal logic and consistency is vastly Better then most fantasy stories
  • This was the first book that I personally read outside of school required readings and it spawned my love for reading now. ... I think my comments on it best describe my state of mind at the time: “masterpiece, completion time 12 days”.
  • Last week, I completed my third read, and it genuinely hurts me that this novel still doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves. ... A true progressive fantasy. Zorian (protoganist) doesn’t level up magically overnight. He studies, fai...

Cons

  • I'm seeing Mother of Learning on Google play still costing $4.99 in the US
  • I'd say in MoL's case it's more of a situation where *all* the characters are hyper flat and sound / think the same. The author also shortcut massively to telling and not showing for the characters
  • Parent context: It also has some of the worst written female characters I've ever seen. They are all caricatures, if they even have that much personality. Reply: I would extend that to all characters, not just female characters. The teen...
  • I know this take won’t be popular, but Mother of Learning has some of the weakest writing I’ve seen in a widely loved book on r/fantasy. I just can’t get past the middle-school-level prose.
  • Here are books that I have tried but that were either just okay or I was lukewarm about them. ... Iron prince, Greatcoats, Six of Crows, Broken Earth trilogy, Monster hunter international, Corpies, The tainted cup, Foundryside, The perfe...

Sentiment

9 positive (64%) · 1 mixed (7%) · 4 negative (29%)

Trust + time weighted score: +41% · raw score 36%

What redditors said (10 of 14)

Ohh I remember reading Mother of Learning some years back. It is pretty good. Stellar ending.
positive · u/k****e · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Mother of Learning - Damagoj Kurmaic. Awesome time loop story.
positive · u/A****3 · r/Fantasy · comment · Aug 31, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I'm seeing Mother of Learning on Google play still costing $4.99 in the US
negative · u/c****9 · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 26, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I'd say in MoL's case it's more of a situation where *all* the characters are hyper flat and sound / think the same. The author also shortcut massively to telling and not showing for the characters
negative · u/m****k · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Parent context: It also has some of the worst written female characters I've ever seen. They are all caricatures, if they even have that much personality. Reply: I would extend that to all characters, not just female characters. The teenagers all sound the same, the adults all sound the same.
negative · u/N****0 · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The prose may not be great but the internal logic and consistency is vastly Better then most fantasy stories
positive · u/J****U · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I know this take won’t be popular, but Mother of Learning has some of the weakest writing I’ve seen in a widely loved book on r/fantasy. I just can’t get past the middle-school-level prose.
negative · u/s****n · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
This was the first book that I personally read outside of school required readings and it spawned my love for reading now. ... I think my comments on it best describe my state of mind at the time: “masterpiece, completion time 12 days”.
positive · u/C****0 · r/Fantasy · comment · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Last week, I completed my third read, and it genuinely hurts me that this novel still doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves. ... A true progressive fantasy. Zorian (protoganist) doesn’t level up magically overnight. He studies, fails, repeats, refines, and improves.
positive · u/O****r · r/Fantasy · Dec 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Here are books that I have tried but that were either just okay or I was lukewarm about them. ... Iron prince, Greatcoats, Six of Crows, Broken Earth trilogy, Monster hunter international, Corpies, The tainted cup, Foundryside, The perfect run, kings of the wyld, The green bone saga, Sabriel, sun eater, Mage errant, The demon cycle, Mark of the fool, mother of learning, he who fights with monsters, arcane ascension, the iron druid chronicles, the blacktongue thief, the lightbringer series, the night angel series, spellmonger series.
mixed · u/S****2 · r/Fantasy · Nov 1, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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