losersfiction 's review for:

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

4.0

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There is something intriguing about the shift from book three to book four, but it isn’t quite enough to make me love the new universe Dune finds itself in. We’re 3,000 odd years after the previous text and the main character (Leto II) is now an intensely grotesque worm-like man who masquerades as a god. Perhaps upon rereading this one I will find more depth, but in this first reading it seems comparatively less intriguing than the previous text. It is still good however. I’m hoping this book gets better after reading the next one, and that it will be an essential moment in the unfolding history of Arrakis - but we will see.