Graham Downs reviewed God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #4)
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4 stars
This one is the best Dune yet!
I've had a love/hate relationship with this series since I finally managed to finish the first instalment last year. Some of the books have bored me silly, but the ending has been just enough to make me want to read the next one.
God Emperor of Dune, however, had me hooked from the very first page, and didn't stop! It's the story of Leto Atreides II, some 3000 years after the ending of the previous book. Leto's transformation to sandworm is almost complete, and the book is full of his philosophies on politics, systems of governments and religions, formulated by him over the past few thousand years.
I found God Emperor of Dune to be a gripping read, with characters that sucked me in and made me really care about what happened to them. I lost the plot somewhere in the middle, but picked it up again really quickly. If you're struggling through the Dune series, I urge you to stick it out until you've read book 4!