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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
Frank Herbert really starts to boom out with all the weird gender/sex stuff and more obvious homophobia (unfortunately recontextualizes Baron's interest in male children in book 1)
Still a good book if you can get past the horniness and mid 20th century ideology, but it really caught me off guard
Still a good book if you can get past the horniness and mid 20th century ideology, but it really caught me off guard
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It was plodding at times. some weird diatribes which date the book sort of badly, but ultimately rewarding. I went the audio book route. I don't think I could have lasted reading it. The action slows so much and just becomes discussions of philosophy. The world at this stage of the Dune story feels a little less lived in inspite of much exposition. This might be because most of this information is presented to the reader a internal communications and reports between the various factions or from relics recovered many eons after the book. They lose much of the vibrancy of the originals as a result.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
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
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
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
slow-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Children of Dune was a considerable step down from the first two books in this series, but I think this is a small step back up. There is naturally new weirdness to handle but Leto II proves to be one of the most complex and misunderstood characters due to his unique circumstances. I'd say the plot is on par with its predecessor, but the character work done on Leto II just felt slightly better than what was done in the previous book. Also taking place 3500 years after the last book, it felt weird to refer to so many loved characters from the first three novels as "long-dead" and I felt myself missing some of them and the book gives them no fanfare. This is a tough rating as I could see this being many peoples point of giving up on the series, while for me it actually felt like it stuck a better landing than the previous installation of the Dune universe.