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Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert

3.77 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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adventurous dark tense medium-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: Complicated

Things started to become a little too meta for me tbh at the end but good overall 

i first read this back in 2019, a lot has changed since then, and a lot of this i’ve forgotten. such a simple story, with lots of interesting philosophy and other background material packed in.

it captured me, and helped bring back a bit of my reader’s mind again after a bit of a struggle / break. ready for the film now, denis!
challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I love the Dune series, but something I find funny is how all the other characters have these beautifully confected sci-fi names but the main characters have real normal names.
It would be like if Han Solo was called “John Doe”.

many pages of people talking to each other, then an explosion, then more pages of people talking to each other

after i read dune i said i wished that herbert developed chani and paul’s relationship more but after reading the one in this book i’m glad that didn’t happen…
adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-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