Learn My Lesson by Katee Robert
With Hades and Meg’s relationship cracking, Meg is suspicious when she’s ordered to seduce a handsome waiter while he watches. It turns out that she’s right to be suspicious because it’s all part of a plan that Hades never shared with her. As the queen of the underworld, Meg feels the cracks deepening. When she learns that Hades made a deal with the starry eyed Hercules and plans to personally train him, Meg worries that she’s about to be replaced. What she never expected was for a throuple to slowly form…
It turns out I was wrong and that Hook’s book is actually the third book, but that’s okay! Meg, Hades, and Hercules are sure to have an interesting dynamic, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Meg and Hercules have a lot of chemistry, but Hades has chemistry with absolutely no one. It was truly wild to see, but I did learn that he’s actually the father of the Hades we got to know in the Neon Gods series. At least things finally make sense on that front because I was trying to figure how Hades goes from Meg to single and ready to mingle just in time for Persephone to enter the picture later.
Meg and Hercules are interesting characters in this series, but they kept getting stunted by Hades. I don’t know how it happened, but Hades was absolutely boring all book long. He was so much better when he was popping up in the previous book. Unfortunately, following his perspective was yawn worthy because he was so boring and very much a one note character. It was either work or sex with him, but his work was not that serious. It was rather confusing because he seemed to be flying by the seat of his pants and not thinking that hard for someone with his finger in every pie.
It was great to see some other supporting characters turn up, though. We got to see a lot more of Tink, which I was excited about. We also got to meet more characters who will get their own books later on. It was interesting to learn a little more about how the club worked behind the scenes from Meg and Tink. It also was working to set up the story for the next book, so we got to hear a little about Peter Pan and Wendy as well as what their characters are like in this series.
Unfortunately, this book was an overall miss for me. Meg, Hercules, and Hades spend much of their time together and it was mostly sex with very little substance. I liked the idea of Hades trying to work on his relationship with Meg, but he was trying to solve things with more sex rather than listening to what their actual problems were so they could work on that. Meg was the only one who experienced character growth while Hades and Hercules were mostly the same. Perhaps I was expecting too much, but again, I am spoiled by the Neon Gods series and this series does take place in the same universe.
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