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A review by suzemo
Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
2.0
With the caveat that KJA is a hack writer who has probably never written anything good or of substance (judging from the high volume output, I assume he's like the Walmart of insubstantial space opera), this novel wasn't utterly terrible, only just as bad as most of the non-Herbertian "Dune" "trilogies"
This is a sequel(?) to the prequels(?) for the original Dune series. For a couple of guys who supposedly found the notes to how the last Dune should be written, 11 books seems like an awful lot of spit-balling (and, well, really Cash-Cow Milking).
I think calling this Sisterhood of Dune (and the following schools of Dune) is a misnomer. These books aren't actually about the foundings. They feature strongly in these books, but no more than each of the other 'schools' or other Butlerian-Jihad stuff (Vorian Atreides, the Atreides-Harkonnen feud, the crappy Corinno emperors, and, of-freakin-course: Erasmus)
Same issues: the constant repetition, full names always, re-covering the same ground over and over again. Technically speaking, I suppose every book these guys "write" is a stand alone novel, because of the babbling and constant over expositioning (even over something that JUST HAPPENED), this could all be trimmed down to a couple hundred pages of non-spoon feeding. No one has consistent motives, no one has consistent actions, and generally, they throw the entire OG Dune universe out the window.
And there's plenty of what another reviewer rightfully called Norma Deus-Ex-Machina.
Oh, but Scott Brick did a delightful job of narrating this novel. I really do wonder what he thinks of some of the books he narrates, particularly stuff like this (especially because of the overly repetitive nature). I wonder if it drives him crazy or if he doesn't care, or if they have to keep increasing his paychecks.
This is a sequel(?) to the prequels(?) for the original Dune series. For a couple of guys who supposedly found the notes to how the last Dune should be written, 11 books seems like an awful lot of spit-balling (and, well, really Cash-Cow Milking).
I think calling this Sisterhood of Dune (and the following schools of Dune) is a misnomer. These books aren't actually about the foundings. They feature strongly in these books, but no more than each of the other 'schools' or other Butlerian-Jihad stuff (Vorian Atreides, the Atreides-Harkonnen feud, the crappy Corinno emperors, and, of-freakin-course: Erasmus)
Same issues: the constant repetition, full names always, re-covering the same ground over and over again. Technically speaking, I suppose every book these guys "write" is a stand alone novel, because of the babbling and constant over expositioning (even over something that JUST HAPPENED), this could all be trimmed down to a couple hundred pages of non-spoon feeding. No one has consistent motives, no one has consistent actions, and generally, they throw the entire OG Dune universe out the window.
And there's plenty of what another reviewer rightfully called Norma Deus-Ex-Machina.
Oh, but Scott Brick did a delightful job of narrating this novel. I really do wonder what he thinks of some of the books he narrates, particularly stuff like this (especially because of the overly repetitive nature). I wonder if it drives him crazy or if he doesn't care, or if they have to keep increasing his paychecks.