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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
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
Minus 2 stars for sibling marriage, plus one star for not having them actually have a kid together
feels like the plot was lost-found myself not caring for the characters anymore.
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
These books continue to get more absurd as they go on. Still good though for the same reasons as the others. I love the character development and how they are all flawed people.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
slow-paced
Frank Herbert is definitely starting to lose his touch a bit, but this book is still engaging. He ran out of ideas and brought back a hero, a villain, and killed another hero again. So all 3 of them did not have the emotional reveals that they were supposed to. I appreciated the fixing of Paul’s unwilling tyranny from the first Dune, but I don’t buy this book’s solution. ***Spoiler: My God-Emperor dad risked a reign of strife and death. So I decided to become a sterilized alien, marry my twin sister, and then rule for 4,000 years. If you say so… ***End Spoiler.
As for the message and its delivery: this book (still) is all about the perils of hero worship and despotism (plus environmentalism, but yawn). And Herbert decided to spend the first half of the book just like, having our worshipped heroes spending so, so much time in their own heads (as well as each other’s) making judgments about what is best for us. It was counterintuitive and by far the worst part of the book. The second half picked up and got good and then the end just… faded to black?
As for the message and its delivery: this book (still) is all about the perils of hero worship and despotism (plus environmentalism, but yawn). And Herbert decided to spend the first half of the book just like, having our worshipped heroes spending so, so much time in their own heads (as well as each other’s) making judgments about what is best for us. It was counterintuitive and by far the worst part of the book. The second half picked up and got good and then the end just… faded to black?
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes