Reviews - Dune Messiah | The StoryGraph

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Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert

3.77 AVERAGE

teffire's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

juliaflo's review against another edition

2.75

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kawada12's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark inspiring reflective medium-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

elliotwizard's review against another edition

3.0

The first 75% of this is really good, similar to Dune in pacing and style and it does a lot of good work reintroducing characters 12 years later. Then... there's an explosion. And suddenly things move very fast and start to get confusing. Not everything after that event is terrible, but the last 25% needed to be way longer. The ending is unsatisfying and just does not feel right at all tbh. It sucks bc I was super into Messiah for most of the book! I will be reading Children of Dune and hopefully that redeems the weirdness of this ending.