Effrum Scufflegrit's Reviews > Children of Dune
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
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Another great outting into the universe of Dune. Also another great outting that I found myself enjoying more than the original novel. CoD continues the story of House Atreides and travels more into the realms of the fantastic and the mystic than its predecessors with pleasantly unpredictable turns.
The only thing I will say against it is it feels, only at times, a bit scattered and unfocused. It might leave you at an interesting point in a substory at the end of a chapter only to hand wave the resolution of that story away later with a passing comment of another character. While the other novels did this as well, it felt a bit more jarring to me this go around, at least for me personally. That said, the hate I see this book gets in many reviews crying about things like "there were no heroes! >:(" makes me feel like so many people missed the point of the series itself.
TLDR I very much enjoyed this novel. While it didn't quite reach the level of Messiah for me, it came very, VERY close.
The only thing I will say against it is it feels, only at times, a bit scattered and unfocused. It might leave you at an interesting point in a substory at the end of a chapter only to hand wave the resolution of that story away later with a passing comment of another character. While the other novels did this as well, it felt a bit more jarring to me this go around, at least for me personally. That said, the hate I see this book gets in many reviews crying about things like "there were no heroes! >:(" makes me feel like so many people missed the point of the series itself.
TLDR I very much enjoyed this novel. While it didn't quite reach the level of Messiah for me, it came very, VERY close.
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