Smooth and well written. The philosophical and time speculation didn't get old. The planet and the people and the desert were described well and never too much at one time. And the story took a fantastic turn with Paul walking out into the desert at the end. Looking forward to the next in the series. ( )

Very good world building. I'd say it was a near perfect sequel to Dune. Can't wait to read the next one. ( )

perchè questa ambivalenza tra le recensioni?

TRAMA E SPOILER :D
ineluttabile ( )

“A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation.”

Alright so I'm just going to say it... this one is a far cry from the first. I don't hate it and I know why it was necessary... I totally get it. However, it was just not it. I spent so much of this one confused about what was happening and nothing felt like it made any sense or went together in any way. We have a 12 year time jump from the last book and a Paul who is very different from the one we remember. Somehow all things that Paul didn't want to unfold have and now he's literally viewed as a god by a sect of Fremen and then another set seem very anti all things Maud'Dib and wish to return to the ancient ways of life.

This book is full of a lot of scheming from some familiar characters but also some new ones. They are all determined to destroy Paul in some way or another. They want to discredit him to his people, they want to make him destroy himself, they want to kill the person he loves, or they want to end his monopoly on spice. However, it takes about 200 pages for all of this to become even remotely understandable. And each layer of the conspiracy just becomes more and more confusing and then seems to fizzle out. Paul is already at war with himself and the future that he has seen with no different outcome has virtually destroyed his will to do anything.

The ending of this one tries to make sense of the previous 300 pages and it clears up a little. I know this one was a necessary transition book for what is to come in the series but I just felt kind of disappointed with this one after how amazing the first was. Here is holding out hope that book 3 redeems us. ( )

Nah, didn't really like it.
Shorter than the original Dune, but I just found myself wanting the book to end. ( )