Reviews - Dune Messiah | The StoryGraph

10.4k reviews for:

Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert

3.77 AVERAGE

josephkeenan's review against another edition

3.75

Herbert definitely sets Paul up as a flawed messiah figure. I like his writing style! Claire would rec

eliris3's review against another edition

3.0

Going to be honest this book kinda disappointed me and made me upset with Paul. Like please dude at least put up a fight? But the ending was kinda sick as hell so I appreciated that and made me forgive him a bit.

damian_low's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

theressomeproseinthishouse's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

maerwynn's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jacket_potato's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I took about a month's break in-between reading this book, which I think hampered my enjoyment of it slightly as I had forgotten a lot of the visions Paul had at the start.

I still found the book good, but the start was quite slow and confusing. You are presented with some of Paul's vision that make no sense to you (or Paul, but I guess he somehow does actually understand them) and as you read on slowly everything starts to make sense, although I'm guessing if you read this book in a shorter timespan than me you'd actually remember all of that stuff as you get to the end and things would make a lot more sense for you (I didn't).

Having said all that, I still enjoyed the cleverness of the plot once I understood what was going on, and how deep the Tleilaxu plot actually ran.

Irulan's character was your typical 50s/60s female sci-fi character which was frustrating, and Chani obviously hadn't changed, but I didn't have much issue with other characters.