• negativeyoda@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Messiah is good

    Children is decent but spotty

    God Emperor is essentially a fever dream. I was like WTF while reading it but I love how off the rails it went.

    The last couple are kind of meandering and forgettable.

    The immediate prequels (house books) are a fun read and plotted well, but his kid isn’t as good of a writer as poppa Herbert

    The legends books are garbage

    The last 2 books that tie up the original series (hunters and sandworms) are not good and are infuriating in that elements from the legends books are reintroduced as deus ex machina bullshit. I saw the twist coming halfway through the last book.

    I never read any of the other gap filler books that have been written in that universe. It got tiresome

    Everything up until God Emperor is worthwhile with the prequels being a fun appetizer. Read the synopses of the others if you need to know what happens