A review by wellington299
Mentats of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert

3.0

This book has so much potential. The Dune universe and history fascinates me and the book could have done so much more. Instead, we have a book bordering on vapid and extraneous.

With quick chapters of a few pages apiece, I felt more like I reading just a clip of each chapter (like the 30 second samples of songs). There were too many story lines (think we could have done without the Fremen saboteur story line at least). The book had a feel of a pretty good fan fiction than anything else.

This book can be enjoyed without thinking too much. This is my version of what my aunt called "romantic trash" (she likes reading romance novels): inconsequential light reading that is almost embarrassing to tell people that you read.