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GEM
4.0 out of 5 starsGood read
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2022
Brings a lot of Dune lore together. Doesn't have ""feel" of the original but does a good job at it.
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Bryan Desmond
2.0 out of 5 starsKralizec, Arafel, Armageddon, Ragnarok—by any name, the darkness at the end of the universe.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 7, 2022
Two or three stars. Two and a half I guess. On its own, separate from the Dune Saga, it might be a three-star book. Compared to the other books in its series however, it is decidedly a two-star book. Which is funny, actually, because the very fact that it is a Dune book makes me want to push it up to three stars just because it is the continuation of something I deeply love. Bah.

Anyhow. My "history", so to speak, with Brian Herbert, is as long and storied as any other long-time Dune fan's. He is a creeping shadow; the slayer of the Dune Encyclopedia; the seizer of rights; the "finder of the notes"; the retcon rascal... There is plenty to criticize here—or at the very least raise your eyebrows at—but I suppose this isn't the place to do so; at least when it comes to the things that exist outside the text. At the end of the day, it's Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson who steer this ship now. And because the idea of more Dune has always had an undeniable appeal to me—and even more so because I have a slew of friends who have recently, lovingly, joined me in the fandom of this universe—I felt that it was finally time that I give Brian a chance. I made the attempt with as open a mind as I could bear, and I believe I was largely successful.

Now, there are some slightly spoilerish things that I want to say about Hunters of Dune, and those things consist largely of my main complaint about how this book ends, and the direction in which Brian and Kevin have taken the saga, so I think I'll leave that for the end. As for the rest of it...

The writing is, unfortunately, amateurish. It is a shadow of the mind-expanding prose that Frank wielded as a matter of course, and to any fan of the saga I think it's intensely noticeable. Brian holds the reader's hand; Frank never did. Brian talks down to the reader; Frank never did. It lacks the cerebral playgrounds that Frank seemed to access so easily. It lacks the introspection. There are near-constant issues when it comes to the "show don't tell" rule, and the book itself is very bloated. You can tell they split it into two books but didn't really have two books worth of material. The character work is poor. The dialogue is weak. Even previously-established strong characters feel flat here. Dune always felt vast, an enormous universe full of nuance and history. Brian somehow manages to make it feel small. And lastly, something that irked me specifically, there are certain things that don't need to be revealed. There is value to the unknown in a large series like this, which Frank understood. Brian seems to think that every hole must be filled; every question answered.

This does all feel a bit harsh, you know. Is it fair to compare Brian's work to Frank's? Probably not. Can I do otherwise? No! This is Dune! This is what he signed up for.

All of this aside... And it's a lot to put aside... But all of this aside, I cannot deny that it felt very exciting to continue the story of Dune. To jump back in after the events in Chapterhouse and continue this strange tale. So Brian can't measure up to his father, fine. Acceptance of that fact led to a relatively enjoyable reading experience. I mean, I finished the thing, and I'm going to read the next one. So there you go. And there's no denying that the return of legendary figures of Dune is, simply put, awesome. It's certainly something that Frank was, if not leading toward, at least hinting at in his last two books. Does it feel like fan service? Yes. Will I ever know if this is truly what Frank planned? No. And seeing as how that's an enormous can of worms in and of itself, I decided to just take it as it comes.

Now, for my comments that I referenced above... I'm just not sure how I feel about an AI robot being the big-bad of the Dune Saga. Perhaps that was Frank's intention and Brian just takes the blame for it, but to me Dune has always stood out as being away from and beyond those kinds of science-fiction stories. Dune has always been a very human story. Superhuman at times, sure, but even then, at its heart, a very human story. It focused on the way that people falter, and on the way that the systems they create collapse. It showed the dangers of human capability; the horrors we are capable of, or the horrors we are incapable of avoiding. So this idea that the ultimate problem of Dune is a robot just doesn't really jive with me, and I don't think my feelings on this would be any different were it Frank, rather than Brian, behind the pen... Reverend Mother Mohiam says in the very beginning of Dune: "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Other men. Humans were still the root problem. The base of the pillar, to me, was always the faults of humanity. That was what the Dune Saga set out to examine. And so unfortunately I have an inherent problem with the direction this story has gone, as it feels like they've lost sight of what made Dune Dune all along.
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Martha Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent continuation of the Dune saga.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2023
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I think Brian and his co writer have done a marvelous job of keeping the style and spirit of Frank’s writing. Not exactly the same but there is nothing to distract from the reading experience. Brian said himself that he wasn’t trying to copy his father’s style but there are enough similar elements to please fans. I am almost finished Hunter’s and can’t wait to read Sandworms.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid continuation for fans (NO spoilers!!!!!)
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2006
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I've read all the dune books, originals and prequels, and though this is definitely not my favorite, I enjoyed it, and I feel that it is a worthy contribution to the Dune universe.

The writers really lack subtlety, often restating things or making an allusion and then explaining in detail how the allusion relates to the characters and plot. Where Frank Herbert would give you shades of meaning in a grammatically simple but overall complex way, these writers sometimes baby you. That said, the babying only was an issue a few times, so don't be discouraged from reading it.

I devoured the book in two days, ignoring my research paper and math homework (I'm in college). Ouch. Anyway, the plot was very interesting, there were no lulls in the book, I cared about the characters, there are clues (subtle ones, too!) as to who the Enemy is throughout the book, and I can't wait (!!!!) for the next one to come out.

Overall, I would say it is a skilled build-up for the conclusion to the original Dune series. I read somewhere online that these books are more like the Hollywood book adaptation of what Frank Herbert would have written, and I agree. If you read it expecting a Dune book and not a Frank Herbert book, then you'll be fine, and you'll probably like it for the good plot and familiar characters.
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Jon H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Start to the Expanded Series
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2022
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This is an amazing continuation of Frank Herbert’s vision. I had put off starting it, because I was concerned it might not live up to the original series, but I was not discouraged. The book imaginatively expands on the universe Herbert created, and it moves at a good pace. I’m hooked and look forward to reading on.
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Bryan Desmond
2.0 out of 5 stars Kralizec, Arafel, Armageddon, Ragnarok—by any name, the darkness at the end of the universe.
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Two or three stars. Two and a half I guess. On its own, separate from the Dune Saga, it might be a three-star book. Compared to the other books in its series however, it is decidedly a two-star book. Which is funny, actually, because the very fact that it is a Dune book makes me want to push it up to three stars just because it is the continuation of something I deeply love. Bah.

Anyhow. My "history", so to speak, with Brian Herbert, is as long and storied as any other long-time Dune fan's. He is a creeping shadow; the slayer of the Dune Encyclopedia; the seizer of rights; the "finder of the notes"; the retcon rascal... There is plenty to criticize here—or at the very least raise your eyebrows at—but I suppose this isn't the place to do so; at least when it comes to the things that exist outside the text. At the end of the day, it's Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson who steer this ship now. And because the idea of more Dune has always had an undeniable appeal to me—and even more so because I have a slew of friends who have recently, lovingly, joined me in the fandom of this universe—I felt that it was finally time that I give Brian a chance. I made the attempt with as open a mind as I could bear, and I believe I was largely successful.

Now, there are some slightly spoilerish things that I want to say about Hunters of Dune, and those things consist largely of my main complaint about how this book ends, and the direction in which Brian and Kevin have taken the saga, so I think I'll leave that for the end. As for the rest of it...

The writing is, unfortunately, amateurish. It is a shadow of the mind-expanding prose that Frank wielded as a matter of course, and to any fan of the saga I think it's intensely noticeable. Brian holds the reader's hand; Frank never did. Brian talks down to the reader; Frank never did. It lacks the cerebral playgrounds that Frank seemed to access so easily. It lacks the introspection. There are near-constant issues when it comes to the "show don't tell" rule, and the book itself is very bloated. You can tell they split it into two books but didn't really have two books worth of material. The character work is poor. The dialogue is weak. Even previously-established strong characters feel flat here. Dune always felt vast, an enormous universe full of nuance and history. Brian somehow manages to make it feel small. And lastly, something that irked me specifically, there are certain things that don't need to be revealed. There is value to the unknown in a large series like this, which Frank understood. Brian seems to think that every hole must be filled; every question answered.

This does all feel a bit harsh, you know. Is it fair to compare Brian's work to Frank's? Probably not. Can I do otherwise? No! This is Dune! This is what he signed up for.

All of this aside... And it's a lot to put aside... But all of this aside, I cannot deny that it felt very exciting to continue the story of Dune. To jump back in after the events in Chapterhouse and continue this strange tale. So Brian can't measure up to his father, fine. Acceptance of that fact led to a relatively enjoyable reading experience. I mean, I finished the thing, and I'm going to read the next one. So there you go. And there's no denying that the return of legendary figures of Dune is, simply put, awesome. It's certainly something that Frank was, if not leading toward, at least hinting at in his last two books. Does it feel like fan service? Yes. Will I ever know if this is truly what Frank planned? No. And seeing as how that's an enormous can of worms in and of itself, I decided to just take it as it comes.

Now, for my comments that I referenced above... I'm just not sure how I feel about an AI robot being the big-bad of the Dune Saga. Perhaps that was Frank's intention and Brian just takes the blame for it, but to me Dune has always stood out as being away from and beyond those kinds of science-fiction stories. Dune has always been a very human story. Superhuman at times, sure, but even then, at its heart, a very human story. It focused on the way that people falter, and on the way that the systems they create collapse. It showed the dangers of human capability; the horrors we are capable of, or the horrors we are incapable of avoiding. So this idea that the ultimate problem of Dune is a robot just doesn't really jive with me, and I don't think my feelings on this would be any different were it Frank, rather than Brian, behind the pen... Reverend Mother Mohiam says in the very beginning of Dune: "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Other men. Humans were still the root problem. The base of the pillar, to me, was always the faults of humanity. That was what the Dune Saga set out to examine. And so unfortunately I have an inherent problem with the direction this story has gone, as it feels like they've lost sight of what made Dune Dune all along.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good purchase
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2023
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Fast shipping. Good communication. Book is in very good condition. Pages Mint. Dust jacket near perfect. Few marks on edges of paper and actual cover, I'm assuming from previous use.
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Eachan C. Lee
1.0 out of 5 stars 2 firsts for me
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2009
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I've never written a review on amazon before, just never been moved enough one way or another to actually jump on and throw in my 2 cents. I've also never been able to not finish a Dune book. And it's not a matter of being a Frankophile or a Herbert Jr. denier. There are series that I still read every new installment of, including some I've read since I was a kid, even though the new books are not the innovative literary gems from earlier on (for example Brian Jacques Redwall series and Alan Dean Foster's Flinx series). I feel a sense of loyalty and commitment to some of these series, continuing to read and support them, sometimes out of sheer momentum. but this book... I can't finish this book. I'm a hundred pages in, and although I fully realize that it's somewhat unfair to judge a book that you haven't finished, I just can't stomach anymore and I don't want to further corrupt my personal mental conception of what Dune is.

it's just that... this isn't really a Dune book. it's a book that has the terminology, has the charactes and settings, but somehow is a completely other product. if you're a fan of Heinlein and read his seminal work Starship Troopers, you can completely understand the sentiment. Starship troopers the movie had all the names right, even had some of the events right, but by and large it just took the elements of that book and just scrambled it into it's own concoction. But at least that entertained me.

and it's not that I didn't go in realizing that it wouldn't be up to FH's standards. I knew from the start that BH and KJA didn't have the chops or the style that characterizes the original Dune novels. I had a friend who loved Dune to death (due to a MUD if any of you older nerds are out there), but could not actually finish the book because the literary style was too much for him to handle (not saying he's a dumb guy, but Dune is definitely a contemplative subtle fare, as opposed to quick and spunky read). but when house atreides came out, he loved it, a lot. and that to me was one indication that the new novels just were not on the same level... that and creating prequels or intermediate books/films is a creative effort that is only slightly above just doing a remake. the story elements and framework are there, you just have to fill in the blanks to agree with canon events in the storyline. and it's not like I didn't read the dozens of bad reviews on hunters and sandworms. taking with a grain of salt the fact that some people will be somewhat fanatical about the original work, I was still prepared for a book that would very likely be far below my hopes and standards. but hey, it's dune 7, something I've dreamed of that would never happen. it's been a couple years since the publication, and my curiousity just happened to crest aftet my latest re-reading of books 1-6, so I figure, swallow your pride and expectations and buy the book, find out what happens.

now I don't care what happens. the reviews have given me enough about the ending to not care at all. and I don't want to have the words of this book in my brain filed under the heading dune. I'd rather live with my imaginings and speculation of what happened after that no-ship left chapterhouse then this heretical "canon" set by hunters and sandworms. so I'm just going to stop reading.

in all fairness, who could really create a dune novel that is on par with the old master? possibly no one. but at least one can try. in their forward the authors pretty much say, we can't do it, so we're not gonna do it. well if it's not worth doing right, it's just not worth doing. if you don't have the tools or the skills to do something right, why bother? and this isn't a matter of a piece of fan fic or video you create at home for yourself. there is an entire community of people who in some way own a piece of this mystique. Sure the Herbert family owns the rights to Dune, but like any book, the author gives a part of that world to his readership. and for a world like Dune that is no mean or small thing. so why sully this part of so many people's lives? why paint a picasso-esque painting if you can barely draw a stick figure? why attempt a re-arrangement of handel's messiah with a tone deaf choir and an orchestra of kazoos?

honestly this thing reads like a 4th grade paper, but instead of "what I did last summer" it's "here's what happens in Dune". there's no subtlety to this thing, whole chapters feel like just a listing of events. so this happened, then this happened, which caused this, then this and then the chapter ends. switch scene and character, repeat ad nauseum. the style is so heavy handed, even in the first hundred pages I have no idea how many times the word "whores" was used. every third page? every other page? and really there were two very easy ways to make this entire effort a decent piece of work. one is to use writers who have proven that they have the ability to handle the material and style. I think of the second Foundation trilogy, authorized to be written by the Asimov estate to Greg Bear, Gregory Benford and David Brin. each of these authors a master of science fiction in their own right. when you read these books you know that they are not Isaac's work, but you are reading something where you know the author has a respect and familiarity with the material, as well as a writing ability to give it the substance and style it deserves. the second method is to have good editors, not just the ones at the publisher checking for spelling and punctuation, but people who know and love the story. Countless author's turn to family and friends who have read their works over the years, knowing that when you create an entire universe, sometimes you forget things. Or take a note from Orson Scott Card, who in many books talks about and thanks the commmunity at his hatrack river website that have helped him keep the new Ender and Alvin books inline with the old. and sure there are still the occasional continuity errors, but they are neither frequent nor glaring. I don't doubt that if the Herbert estate tried to find a forum of Dune adherents to help proofread Dune 7, it could find thousands, tens of thousands of eager volunteers. I know I'd have jumped at the opportunity

but this thing makes no attempt to carry on a greater work. even though it may not be possible to match the groundbreaking original novels, that is no excuse to not try. I find the authors excuse that they had to write 6 books to bring people back into Dune peurile. I never left Dune! there is a following, you don't need to recreate it. George Lucas could have released star wars episode 1 with no trailers or advertising and you can bet that the fans would have flocked to see it. and then there's the line about how the later novels did not sell because they were too complicated. well that depth and density is a large part of why people love those novels and go back to read them again and again. some things are not meant for everyone because not everyone has the mindset or interests to truly appreciate them. by BH and KJA's logic the best pieces of writing belong to primetime television as the audience for any hit network tv show far surpasses the following for any given book. not everyone likes opera, either because they don't understand it or it's just not something that appeals to their psyche. that doesn't mean that you stop staging or writing operas, that means you keep on doing opera, sure you can put a new spin or innovation on it, but respecting and honoring the history and tradition of it. leave the pop music to someone else but keep don giovanni off the american idol albums! the supposed rationalizations of these two pretenders to the throne only further strengthens my suspicions that the money and not the legacy is their primary objective. after all they've done it, they've written the conclusion. but hey, we still got some in between books for you, c'mon paul of dune. you guys could have picked a more mysterious era, the gap between dune/dune messiah was not that great in time and the outline for the fremen jihad already exists. why not pick the period starting from leto's living still-suit through his slow evolution into the pre-worm?

I'm sorry but I have to go into my issues with the way the characters are used, even though I've only ready 100 pages. and I apologize as I know several of these points have been brought up before, but I have to vent my spleen

SPOILERS!!!

1) what is up with this oracle of time nonsense? in a hundred pages it's mentioned twice and I get that it's something silly they made up for the prequels. but it's not mentioned in any Dune book, and the original series firmly states that the navigators use their limited prescience to avoid the perils of folded space. there's nothing about this all encompassing entity that looks out for guild navigators making sure they don't drive into potholes. way to tie into your silly prequels, I think it's safe to say that the oracle of time didn't exist in FH's outline

2) how does no one know about teg's super speed? there were rumours all over gammu about it after he ran roughshod across ysai and he clearly demonstrates in front of a whole panel of BG observers(and talks to Duncan about it!) in chapterhouse. yet somehow everyone is ignorant and Duncan didn't remember that conversation.

3) they refer to the face dancer couple (I don't care what they write, they are a face dancer couple in my head now and forever) twice in the first 100 pages. for a subtle unknown power that has hidden itself for time unknown, they make themselves pretty blatantly obvious, as evidence in the conversation between the face dancers and the lost tleilaxu master

4) the bene gesserit are an organization concerned with the progress of human race, would rather function as the power behind the throne than sit on it, sees themselves as teachers of societies, use subtlety as a way of life, and have saying upon saying that nothing must be held as an absolute, even the sayings themselves. somehow they become this polarized power hungry organization that is about as subtle as a man whacking an electrical panel with a sledgehammer. and yeah I get that merging with the honored matres changes some things, but the whole idea was to be so subtle that the matres didn't realize that in victory they had lost.

5) the idea of torturing reverend mothers in the no ship was stupid. it's stated in heretics and chapterhouse that the BG bodily control allows them to pretty much die at will.

6) dunno what this mysterious origins of the matres is going to be but it looks like something about tleilaxu women. it says flat out in chapterhouse that the matres had their origins in fish speakers allied with bene gesserits in extremis. but this book treats it like a big unknown, but murbella has other memory... and she's from an established matre world, so the chances that she had just one honored matre ancestor is pretty good, in case you are wondering just try taking the number 2 to the power of say a couple dozen generations and see how likely it seems. and with other memory, it only takes one

7) in that same vein, why would sheeana have to state that she has had ancestors that studied kaballah... um she had ancestors that were just flat out jewish since it's established that she's of fremen descent and there are numerous inferences in the original books that the jews were one of the precursors of the fremen.

8) why do they treat rebeccah's sharing with lucilla as a changing moment? sure it changed her and pushed the bene gesserit mindset strongly into her mental framework, but she had already experienced the spice agony prior to that and had other memories. you'd think that the idea of being more than herself started with the surviving the original agony. but they make it sound like she was meek and obedient until the horde of lampadas came along, I'm pretty sure that when you have other memories of history and ritual that the rabbi only learned the old fashion way, that you already know that your old mentor is not infallible

9) when did everyone become prescient? Duncan Idaho is now prescient and so is Sheeana... that ability isn't necessarily present in every Atreides, not to mention that genetically Idaho isn't all that Atreides (though chapterhouse implies that he has some gene markers of Siona, those cheeky tleilaxu). but nowhere in either heretics or chapterhouse does either indivdiual show any inkling of prescience. Sheeana has worm super powers and Duncan has mentat super powers plus altered vision based on combining mentat stuff with the merging of his serial lives.

10) since when was folding into another dimension a risk? nothing was ever mentioned of ships punching into another dimension. ah well, it's a great excuse to introduce that bastard child the oracle of time back into the mix

11) in the meeting with the guild representatives there is a reference about how there used to be multiple sources of melange. um there were two, rakis and the tleilaxu. maybe the authors should look up the definition of the word multiple

12) in the same confrontation they describe the rep's braid as resembling an electrical cord... stunning visual metaphor guys, truly. why not a hirsute snake? or overgrown follicular parasite? something with a little more punch than... it looks like a cable. better to have not mentioned it than to use such a weak reference

END SPOILERS!!

I shudder to think of how long this rant would have continued if I had actually finished the book, especially if the ghola bit is as horrific as so many people say. the only thing new Dune thing I want to read is the outline, so do the community a favor Brian and give it to the public
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Jonathan C. Pike
2.0 out of 5 stars I tried to like it
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2006
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I really did. I went into this novel with the most optimistic mindframe possible. Brian's work with the original Dune Prequels (the "House" ones) were really not that bad. I enjoyed them, to some extent, because at least he wasn't messing around too much with the Dune timeline we were familiar with. The "Butlerian Jihad" trilogy was... less impressive. It left a sour taste in my mouth. But nevertheless, I resolved to give "Hunters" a fair chance. I told myself: "I accept Frank Herbert's genius was not passed onto his son. I understand Brian will use a different literary style, with less emphasis on the complex interplay of politics, religion, and philosophy. He'll include a lot of meaningless action scenes and write at a lower level. It won't bother me".

It did bother me. A whole lot. Here why:

The * NO spoiler * parts that sucked

- He's writing for middle school kids. Seriously. The writing style is so simplistic it's insulting to an adult reader. He's basically telling us all we're morons who can't remember what happened 20 pages ago, let alone what happened in previous Dune novels. The result? TONS of unnecesary recap of previous storylines, both Frank's and Brian's. Conversations involving characters who both know the same thing, yet explain it to each other for 5 pages (i.e. the audience is dumb, let's break it down for them). And overuse of the same stupid words over and over. I swear, between his 2 prequel trilogies and "Hunters" he's used the word "esoteric" 156 times. Get a thesaurus!

- The characters are denser than blocks of wood. They're all so stupid it's insane. Remember the incredible intuitive leaps characters like Odrade would make? It almost annoyed me how easily she figured out all of Waff's secrets in "Heretics". She was a genius, easily deciphering the most complex problems with the just faintest hint. The same for Duncan and Teg: both intellectual giants in previous novels. Forget it now. These characters are so dumb they're lucky they don't forget how to breathe. How long does it take Duncan to figure out Teg can move at incredible speeds? 3/4 of the book? "Gee, Teg just disappeared and inexplicably the ship took off, with seemingly no one at the controls... oh wait, Teg is there somehow, even though I left for the bridge before him. And there's still that rumor about Teg moving at super speeds on Gammu... But how to decipher this puzzle? What does it mean? Oh well, guess I'll go mope about Murbella some more and be absolutely worthless". Gah. I almost want them to die.

- Brian just can't resist tooting his own horn by including stupid characters / places from his prequels in the new novel. There is no need for them. You don't need to reference your "additions" to the Dune universe every 2 pages. Just pretend it never happened, and move on.

- Why spend hundreds of pages developing characters when you are just going to kill them off in absolutely meaningless deaths? A major character getting swallowed by a sandworm serves what purpose? None. This isn't real life, it's fiction. If you're going to kill someone important, make it a death that somehow contributes to the plot. Sandworm digestion has lost its novelty by this point.

Now, a few * SPOILER * parts that sucked. STOP READING if you don't want to know the identity of the "SECRET enemy" (heavy on the sarcasm).

- Stupid gholas. Why so many? It's ridiculous. Let's bring back Dr. Yueh, I'm sure he has much more to contribute to the plot. Great idea. Why Brian, why? I can see Frank Herbert POSSIBLY bringing back Paul, or maybe just Gurney and Hawat. But Leto II? That seems a little much. Considering the enormous role he played in the Dune universe, it seems anticlimatic to bring him back again. Besides, Frank always seemed focused on moving humanity forward in an ever evolving metamorphosis. Even Duncan, who has ties to the past, is changed drastically in his various ghola incarnations. To bring all these original Dune characters back seems more like a cheap trick to get the audience involved again, like when a TV drama brings back a character from season 1 who was supposedly dead to get a boost in ratings.

- And, of course, robots. Damn robots. I kept praying throughout the novel "Please don't let the enemy be robots, please don't let the enemy be robots. Let it be super face dancers, or aliens, or gigantic intergalatic jelly fish, or cyborg dinosaurs in a no-death star. Anything but robots." Of course, it was robots, as anyone with a brain who read the prequels could've guessed. Of course, Omnius and the "independant robot" (god I hate that phrase) Eramus were actually Daniel and Marty. The revelation of Daniel as Omnius made me so furious I cursed Brian Herbert with eternal syphilous out loud. Perhaps Frank intended the enemy to be machines. Back in the 1980's, that wasn't such a cliche notion. But after being inundated with movie after movie (Terminator, Matrix, etc.) of the same theme, the last thing I want to read is another "man vs. machine" epic. So how does Brian decide to solve this problem when he first sees his father's secret notes? He goes and writes 3 ENTIRE BOOKS about men fighting machines, then decides to take those same machines and put them in Dune 7 & 8. Sweet. Can't wait to see what tricks the old independant robot and adorable Omnius have in store for us. Maybe Serena Butler (aka the Oracle of Time. Gimme a fricken break) will fly by on her magical wings of prescience and throw esoteric sandworms at Omnius, causing Eramus to slowly lower himself into a pool of magma while giving the "thumbs up" to an onlooking John Connor.

* END OF SPOILER *

There's plenty more to write about here, but I'm too angry / tired to go on. Suffice to say, many hardcore Dune fans will be even angier than me, and most mild fans should be reasonably upset. Will we all read book 8? Almost definetly. We need closure, no matter how terrible. Just be ready for more mindless fight scenes and moronic characters. Damn you Brian Herbert.
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Danny E. Mccormick
5.0 out of 5 stars Picks up the pace
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2021
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After reading Frank Herbert's first six books in the series, I was feeling as if the storyline was being dragged out. The story was still interesting, but the action had slowed down tremendously from the first two books. After Herbert's death, his son and another author took the reins to finish the saga. I'm glad they did. Hunters of Dune really picks up the pace. The series is back to being enjoyable to read. The chapters are short, so I can read them in spurts without marking pages and trying to figure out where I left off - I just stop reading when a new chapter begins. It took me one month to read the first four books of the series, one month to read Herbert's last two books, and now a week later and I'm more than halfway through the seventh book.
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Tracy S. Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars what a finale
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 10, 2022
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Excellent finale. Answered lots of hanging questions. But a few remain…
This is a must read science fiction book. Love it.
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