excellent

loved this book. it was definitely my favourite after the first book! It really starts to pick up momentum by the half way point and then it just takes off!!

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Great Narration & Cool Story

The VA was super good, and some of the dialogue was funny. Bit of a struggle to follow what's going on at times in the story, and it seems like Irulan's character got kinda shafted to the side for this story. Pretty good.

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A great book - has the feel of the original

Messiah was a bit of a slog but this made it worth it. Great book

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so so... cryptic

found it hard to engage with... confusing at parts... definitely needs a reread to absorb properlly.. nowhere near as thrilling as thr orginal novel.. the again what novels are?!

Better than Dune Messiah (book 2).

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Return to glory

Children of Dune is a very well-written, satisfying story. I found the previous book very slow, and fairly boring, so I’m really glad this book captured and improved on the original Dune atmosphere.

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That ending though?

Easy favourite of the first three Dune books. Could’ve used a bit more action but Lato and Jessica totally made me love it

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Just amazing

There are good writers and then you have great ones Frank and c s lewis are easily some of the best authors I have read. Their books are so perfectly detailed and complex but easy to follow and they make me fall in love with reading. I definitely recommend

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Best of the first three books

Wow, just when I thought that Frank Herbert was liable to run out of incredibly nuanced and novel storytelling ideas and the profound philosophical insights into the human condition which come at you at a breakneck pace in the first two books, the Children of Dune takes the cake. It really feels like the world-building and character development of the first two books really allow this incredible third book to shine, with deep established lore allowing Leto and Ganema’s incredible story to flourish and take the prize for the pick of the lot. I owe it to myself to listen to the remainder of the series now, and even if they don’t reach the heights of this book, I’ll nevertheless be a satisfied man. As someone who came to this series as a “new age” Dune fan, having first gotten a glimpse from the 2022 movie epic, I can reliable say that no nostalgia is required to love this incredibly well written series. Loved it.

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Loved all three

An unpredictable tale following the first 2 Dune novels. Incredible how futuristic it still seems almost 40 years after being written

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A solid instalment

Children of Dune finishes off the first part of the Dune series. As well composed as the second instalment, the political intrigue is just as fascinating though I felt it wasn’t as overt as Dune Messiah. To that and the usual considerations of the dangers of fanaticism and the like, Children of Dune adds discussion on the rippling effects of our choices and personal agency.

The narration is, again, inconsistent. This is largely a product of multiple narrators rather than poor work on the part of those narrators. As always I think the production could be strengthened by either committing to unique voice actors for each, or at least the main, characters, or sticking to a single narrator.

All in all, a good end to the first part of the series. If you want to see what the Dune series is all about, I would recommend the first three books.

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