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akumakos 's review for:
Οίκος των Χαρκόννεν
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
*I'm rating this as a sci-fi/Brian Herbert book, NOT as a Dune book. Just to be clear to my future self.*
This author gets so much hate, holy cow. More than half of the reviews seem to belong to people who probably sleep with a life sized Frank Herbert pillow and refuse to expand their horizons just a bit. Maybe if you stopped comparing the two men you wouldn't be so spiteful about the "offspring". It's not Dune. Nothing close to it, writing wise. We get it. But it's still super fun to read, even though the writing seems kinda rushed and awkward at times. Some of the characters are spot on (meaning the way Herbert senior wrote them) and some feel a bit off. But these are still entertaining (and much easier to swallow) sci-fi books that give solid (for the most part) background on Dune as a whole.
Leto Atreides? Check.
Duncan Idaho? Check.
Vladimir Harkonnen? Check.
Bene Gesserit? Check.
Liet and the Fremen? Check.
Gurney Halleck? Check.
Thufir Hawat? Check.
Mentats and Space Guild Navigators? Check!
What I really didn't like:
Leto/Kailea/Jessica love triangle. Love triangles irk me, and the way Frank Herbert wrote about Leto and Jessica made it seem like their origin was much better than this cheap story.
Beth's (Gurney Halleck's sister) really graphic life and death. I love graphic stuff in my books, but this specific story definitely doesn't fit this universe. I know we had to know what Gurney was talking about when he kept mentioning how he wanted to avenge his sister, but there's about seven million different ways to create a backstory and that was not it.
All in all, awesome sci-fi. Get over it.
This author gets so much hate, holy cow. More than half of the reviews seem to belong to people who probably sleep with a life sized Frank Herbert pillow and refuse to expand their horizons just a bit. Maybe if you stopped comparing the two men you wouldn't be so spiteful about the "offspring". It's not Dune. Nothing close to it, writing wise. We get it. But it's still super fun to read, even though the writing seems kinda rushed and awkward at times. Some of the characters are spot on (meaning the way Herbert senior wrote them) and some feel a bit off. But these are still entertaining (and much easier to swallow) sci-fi books that give solid (for the most part) background on Dune as a whole.
Leto Atreides? Check.
Duncan Idaho? Check.
Vladimir Harkonnen? Check.
Bene Gesserit? Check.
Liet and the Fremen? Check.
Gurney Halleck? Check.
Thufir Hawat? Check.
Mentats and Space Guild Navigators? Check!
What I really didn't like:
Leto/Kailea/Jessica love triangle. Love triangles irk me, and the way Frank Herbert wrote about Leto and Jessica made it seem like their origin was much better than this cheap story.
Beth's (Gurney Halleck's sister) really graphic life and death. I love graphic stuff in my books, but this specific story definitely doesn't fit this universe. I know we had to know what Gurney was talking about when he kept mentioning how he wanted to avenge his sister, but there's about seven million different ways to create a backstory and that was not it.
All in all, awesome sci-fi. Get over it.