aether 's review for:

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

4.0

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Children of Dune continued along the threads of a story left untied by Dune Messiah. Again, Herbert's amazing diction and wordsmithing comes out through this book (on my kindle, I have over 100 highlights and notes!). As with Dune Messiah, he employs the mystery of prescience, but new to this book are mysteries of Fremen legend that become a very vital part of the story line. I was not as impressed by this story as I was with Dune Messiah because I felt that things were a little dragged out and everything came to an extremely quick climax at the very end. This was the same with Dune Messiah, however this book is remarkably longer so the effect is more pronounced. Not to say that nothing happened over great portions of the book; quite the opposite, almost every chapter had something to sufficiently further the plot. The problem was that Herbert gave visions, from almost the start of the book and then throughout the book, of later parts of the book. One particular one that he continued to emphasize didn't happen until almost 4/5ths of the way through (where he was making it seem like a MAJOR plot point). Undeniably it was, and granted this is a petty complaint, but a reason I feel it should be given a 4 out of 5 instead of the full 5 start. Great book, I'm excited to read the next in the series!