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God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

3.68 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Not sure how to feel after reading this. I think I hated it the entire time. But something happened near the end that made me spiral into existential crisis. So it might be quite good - if that was the goal.

The Dune series makes me feel like I'm insane. Like loosely hearing muffled sounds on the other side of the wall and trying to pinpoint exactly what song it is. The closer I listen, the further I get from being able to identify what it is.
challenging reflective slow-paced
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.