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Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

18 reviews

librarycowboy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, War, Murder, Genocide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Infidelity, Addiction, Ableism, Slavery, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Suicide, Cultural appropriation, and Body horror

Minor: Incest

dannilmp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The third installment in the Dune series, and once again we start off with a sizeable time skip from the last events of Dune Messiah. The focus has shifted from Paul and his psychic abilities to his two children and their psychic abilities compared to their aunts capabilities. Once again this book involves another struggle for the Atredies to try and keep the throne from other families hands. 

This series is starting to feel as though its dragging its heels now, I'm not sure we needed a third installment at all? It seems the character writing becomes sloppier the more books we progress through. If I'm being honest, I don't like either of the twins characters and this is not something that will change over the course of the rest of the series I'm sure. There was nothing really that captivated me about Children of Dune and I'll only be continuing the series because there's nothing worse than leaving a series half read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Murder, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: War

serena_hien's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Addiction, and Death

Minor: Incest, Child death, and Death of parent

piremd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

Minor: Incest

kateworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Murder, Colonisation, Child death, and Death

f18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Cursing and Incest

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This entertained me, but I didn’t love it. I could tell Children of Dune was made with a lot of thinking put into it but honestly I feel like there were so many things that could’ve been taken out and the story would’ve been the same/more enjoyable. I really liked Duncan Idaho in this book and Ghani too. I also like how Children of Dune reinforces that the Bene Gesserit (and the spice) are truly the ones/things controlling everything in this world. There were lots of great quotes which is something I have come to expect from these books, but I’m still amazed when I see a great quote.

I’m really sad that Idaho died because he was starting to become my favorite character. Also sad that Alia was no longer herself and instead the Baron Harkonen, that was heartbreaking. Now for the final spoiler: WHY IS LETO MARRYING GHANI??? THEYRE SIBLINGS!!! And the gross part isn’t that they’re marrying each other, it’s that they’re leading anyone outside their circle to believe that they’re going to have kids together. GROSS. Also it’s so weird to remember Leto and Ghanima are kids and when they talk about adult stuff. I can’t see this becoming a movie unless they change their ages to make it more appropriate because it’s really weird and definitely gross.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Addiction, Pedophilia, Murder, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

carrionkid's review against another edition

4.5

A very strong finish to the first half of the Dune series. Tensely emotional and a perfect end point to the story that began with the first book. It's more of a tragedy than the other books in the series, which is a hard thing to beat, and the ending of it is just haunting...

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, and Murder