Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Hunters of Dune
Book Review: Imitation is the sinceres form of flattery
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved the book though he is not his father he does try, The book was an easy read and i know Dune fans will like it i highly recommend it, I cant wait for the next one.Book Review: Just want to know how it ends.
Summary: 1 Stars
I suffered through this book just to get to the end of the overall story. It's generally not a good thing when a non-writer is thinking of better sub-plots, while reading, than the author has come up with. All the characters and factions have lost the richness and depth that was in the original stories. I wasn't expecting him to live up to his father's standards, but this falls short of all my standards aside from correct spelling and grammar. I have never seen such bad execution of a good story.Book Review: Lesser work by a lesser mind
Summary: 2 Stars
I know that Brian Herbert is not Frank Herbert. With that said I cannot forgive the butchering this book gives to the Dune universe. Not only is the writing dumbed down to a 6th grade level, the characters do things completely against their nature, it takes a VERY long time to explain what is going on where Frank Herbert could do it with a sentence and the characters are just DUMB. I'm sorry that is the only way to explain it. Mentats asking things like "what is the significance" when the very point of a mentat is to figure out the significance of information and quite quickly really sunk this novel right from the start for me.
I really wish I had not read this, I can't help but feeling like my view of argueably the greatest science fiction series of all time is a bit tarnished now. I will not buy Sandworms and will for sure not read anything else these two put out about Dune. I don't really even consider Hunters canon after reading it. Again, way too many things are just polar opposite of what they were in Frank Herbert's orginal 6 books not to mention huge plot holes, shoddy character development and the complete lack of the deep political/philosophical undertones of Frank Herberts works.
I could nitpick all day about what I really found wrong with this book. I'm going to go and try to forget I ever read this and leave of my Dune experience with book 6. Honestly the ending to Chapterhouse was not that bad of an ending for the series. At any rate it is light years better to end there than ruin your Dune experience with these other books. I think another reviewer said it best when they mentioned that this book is basically like a big fanfic that actually had proper grammar and got published.
Book Review: Mission accomplished!
Summary: 5 Stars
I wondered how these authors were going to pull it off. The original Herbert left so many questions unanswered, so many alliances, so many storylines (and some of them were confusing on the first reading). Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson introduced dozens more questions in their own books. But hUNTERS picks up the story very nicely. Even if you don't exactly remember everything that happened in the previous book, or if it's been a long time (or if you're one of those who didn't even read it), the authors give you enough details to get you up to speed, but they don't go overboard.
The story begins in an interesting fashion by introducing the different characters and plots, each one in the middle of a crisis. Each one gets more and more complicated, picking up on hints that readers spotted in the Herbert originals. Gholas being grown of special cells from all the main characters in previous books. It makes for a very interesting mix. Just to see Jessica, Paul, the Baron, and Thufir Hawat all being the same age -- cool! HUNTERS isn't a good place to start if you haven't read a Dune book before, but it's certainly a great addition for the rest of us real Dune fans.
Book Review: No redeeming qualities
Summary: 1 Stars
I am usually willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt, but this book is unbelievably bad. The characters are flat, the plot is predictable, the dialogue is juvenile and the pace of the book is slow. While I admire Brian and Kevin for attempting to continue the Dune saga, it is truly astounding that they and the publisher felt this volume does so satisfactorily. I don't recommend this book, even for fans of the series. I refuse to spend any more time on such horrible writing, so I am planning to read an online plot summary for the final installment ("Sandworms of Dune") and recommend you do the same for this book. Thoroughly disappointing.