Dune : the Battle of Corrin

Book Three of the Legends of Dune Trilogy

704 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2019 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-21281-8
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2 stars (1 review)

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Just a giant list of everything's origins, and almost none of them satisfying.

2 stars

This is more about the entire trilogy, rather than this one book.

I wanted to read this series because I wanted a story about how the thinking machine rose up and took over, and how the human race dealt with that and the subsequent aftermath. Instead the series begins centuries after the thinking machines have conquered everything, and little exposition is given to explain how it all occured. What this series actually is is nothing more than a fan service crawl through the origin of everything and anything that the authors could think of from the original book. The real icing on the cake though is how dull and, honestly, rubbish most of the origin stories are, and they get worse the further through the series you get. (seriously, by the end it would have been just as convincing to say "a wizard did it")

If you want a story …