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God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

3.68 AVERAGE


I’d have a beer with him.
challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3.5 rounded up

Fun ideas at play here, but for the first time it's stretched a bit thin. Beginning and ending are great (wolf chase, desert test, bridge attack) and some of Leto's ramblings are genuinely interesting, as is the context established by the prologue and epilogue, but still, it's a struggle to get invested in all these new characters when Herbert mostly focuses on Leto and Duncan, who still end up feeling flat compared to their previous iterations.

Interesante pero no estoy segura de que me gustara
challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Let me tell you something- book 4 of the Dune saga is nuts. I’m a fan; it’s nuts in a good way. But it’s absolutely bonkers. But yeah, the story is drifting away from the awesomeness of the first book after this. Let’s see how book 5 goes.
adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wormlord Leto II dies because he is too horny. 
Might be the greatest love story ever written. 
Idk why I loved reading this book so much it's mostly people talking to Leto II and him saying some meta things and his audience being like "wdym" and he'll respond like "yes that's the point" :') with him then mourning his humanity because he can't be united in flesh with his girlycrush 
challenging 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: Yes