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God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

3.68 AVERAGE

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My favorite character was basically absent the entire middle section of the book. Besides that its more a great dune. 
adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

THIS WORM NEEDS TO STFU
challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I feel like we didn’t need to know Duncan Idaho, the only character to appear in 6 books, was violently, ragingly homophobic. I couldn’t really gauge the authors stance on it based on how it’s treated but maybe that’s for the best. 4.8

Christ Leto II was so human and unhuman at the same time all the time. All the characters you know are dead but somehow all the personalities you've read in the past three books get preserved through ancestors and Leto's unimaginably (literally, you'd probably need the brain-spread-throughout-worm-body just to retain all that information) all-over-the-place ancestral memories.


I’m not sure if it was the book, or if it was me, but I was just not as compelled with this book as I was with it’s predecessors.

I think it was probably just me. I’m a little “Dune-d out.” I did find the story pretty intriguing but the whole time I was reading this book I was contemplating whether or not I wanted to finish this series. Until about halfway through this book I honestly didn’t enjoy much of it, but it really grabbed me for the second half.

For now, I think I’m going to take a break from the Dune universe, and we will see if I ever get to the final books. Still an incredible series so far Frank Herbert was a legendary writer.
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes