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Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

20 reviews

permanent_massage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest and Violence

Minor: War

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Incest, and Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, and War

jelliclejules's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Incest and Infidelity

draven_deathcrush's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I finally finished the book and I didn't like it. I loved the first two books, especially the second one, but this fell flat for me. I have the other books so I'll continue the series, but I really didn't love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Violence

Moderate: Death, Incest, and Infidelity

Minor: Child death

sarah_tani's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Colonisation

Minor: Incest

fuathling's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Reading the Dune series means embarking on an odyssey. Frank narrates what feels like a living-breathing history on an empire that rises, falls, and rages like a hurricane. Children of Dune will break your heart, confound your previously committed beliefs, and threaten the air in your lungs at the edge of every climax. A provocative and terrible tale of supposed fate, and the inescapable pull of power. I'm a little wounded having finished this.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Incest, Violence, and Murder

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

ratvsrobot's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

appreciated the worm descriptions, tho I was a bit shocked about the sand trout cuz they don’t seem to be mentioned previously. Then again, I don’t expect the entire ecology to be laid out in the first 2 books

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Incest and Death of parent

shay43geek's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

lizzyjean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

A beautiful continuation of the Dune Saga. This book dives even deeper into the religious politics of the Dune universe than the two previous, and makes you excited to read God Emperor of Dune. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Incest

The children of this book are mentally centuries old and have lived thousands of lives, but their bodies are still children (around 16). Throughout the book their individual relationships are spoken about, and it is implied that they both individually will have sexual lives with people who are currently adults.