A review by catsflipped
The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert
4.0
The final book in this trilogy but only the third the the massive Duneverse (excluding short stories) is yet another long read. Unlike the first 2 books this one has more action and is much easier to read.
Of the 3 this one is much more like a novel and less of a history lesson and finally brings together all you have learnt so far into the battle to save all humanity.
Yet still there are side stories that only distract you from the main story and serve only to lengthen the book.
While I understand these off-shoots to the main story will soon be the focus of books to come and having this background knowledge will no doubt enhance these future books they only succeeded in irritating me each time I had to trudge through pages irrelevant to the current story.
Taking this book as the final of a trilogy it neatly wrapped up the jihad that had surged on across many generations but those extra characters and their stories never reached a conclusion which makes me wonder why they were ever included.
On the whole this book was the best of those I have read so far, choosing to read then in the order of time rather than when they were written I have not yet read the book that made them all famous, Dune, I look forward to progressing through time and hope the next set of books (which are thankfully much shorter) will be more concise and stick to just one story at a time!
Of the 3 this one is much more like a novel and less of a history lesson and finally brings together all you have learnt so far into the battle to save all humanity.
Yet still there are side stories that only distract you from the main story and serve only to lengthen the book.
While I understand these off-shoots to the main story will soon be the focus of books to come and having this background knowledge will no doubt enhance these future books they only succeeded in irritating me each time I had to trudge through pages irrelevant to the current story.
Taking this book as the final of a trilogy it neatly wrapped up the jihad that had surged on across many generations but those extra characters and their stories never reached a conclusion which makes me wonder why they were ever included.
On the whole this book was the best of those I have read so far, choosing to read then in the order of time rather than when they were written I have not yet read the book that made them all famous, Dune, I look forward to progressing through time and hope the next set of books (which are thankfully much shorter) will be more concise and stick to just one story at a time!