Chapterhouse: Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune • Frank Herbert

⭑ 5.8 Stars

This marks the end of my journey through the Dune anthology, and it’s unfortunate that it ended with more of a whisper than it did a bang. There appears to be a consensus among reviews that the sixth and final take from the Dune universe explicitly written by Frank Herbert is the least enthralling. I myself found the first 500 pages to move at an incredibly slow pace, marked by a constant barrage of mundane and far-from-interesting dialogue.

The style of writing is markedly different than the previous entry in the series, and even stranger the novel turns on a dime with an attempt to pack an incredible amount of action into the final 100 pages, leaving the reader with more questions than answers in a book that would truly be the authors final entry, as Herbert passed away only months after its publication.

Although a disappointing end, this book in no way changed my enthusiasm for the series, and I’m ready to dust off the original entry ahead of its modern film debut later this month!