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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Ableism
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The book seemed to me rather uneventful, which sad because there are many plots. Most of them seemed to me dull, but one of them did peak and was interesting in a away. Unfortunately it was resolved anticlimactically.
As a stand alone book I believe it would be better, but as a prelude to Dune it seemed nothing special, nothing at all, which is disappointing. Perhaps my expectations were to high. Hopefully the next books will do justice to this story.
As a stand alone book I believe it would be better, but as a prelude to Dune it seemed nothing special, nothing at all, which is disappointing. Perhaps my expectations were to high. Hopefully the next books will do justice to this story.
adventurous
slow-paced
There are a lot of people who don't like the Brian Herbert/KJA Dune novels, but I'm not one of them. While certainly never as good as anything the welder Nerbert ever wrote, I always enjoy returning to the world and seeing other sides of things. This one is as heavily politically layered as any of the core Dune novels, perhaps even more so. If anything, one can view these as fanfic, and I think they add to the world well.
Essentially, it's passable Dune fanfiction. Brian doesn't have the well crafted writing style that his father had, but this sets up a prequel trilogy nicely.
adventurous
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
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:
Yes
It reads like a pulp novel, which would be fine except that this is part of the Dune universe. There is so much wasted wasted pages expounding on nothing. There could a lot edited down and would make this a better novel.