Customer Reviews
Not in a million years.... (Spoilers included) - By: Daron G. Woodward, 22 Nov 2008 
I too have been waiting for this book to appear for some 20 odd years Then here it was, or here they were.
That was the first thing, in a long line of things, that annoyed me.
How on earth did DUNE 7 manage to become DUNE 7.1 & DUNE 7.2? One earlier reviewer stated that they thought it scandalous that some of us may think that the authors might try to milk this series for profit. The proof is right there sunshine, the proof is right there. This was one of the MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS EVER, we did not need warm ups, reminders or other superflua to 'get us back up to speed' no, we just needed the story.
As to the actual story, if you are prepared to grace it with such a honourable descriptive, no way pal. My review title says it alll. Not in a million years did Frank Herbert intend his story to end this way. I can see that there would be a reason why the Duncan Ghola character had been kept around alll that time. I can see him as the ultimate Super Kwizatz Haderach. Can even see that this as being one of the only true & original Frank Herbert ideas to weave its way through this mess of instant toilet paper. It makes more sense as such because not only has he been around for ages, he has alll of his serial Ghola memories inside him. So in a FH kind of way, it would fit in the 'real' DUNE universe
As for the rest...
Characters appear for no real reason, then get killed. Characters appear for no real reason, do not get killed but do NOTHING. Characters who have been around for a while (by this time, about 4 books worth of 'aroundness'!) certainly long enough for you to get used to how they act & react...suddenly start to act & react totallly differently to any previous description! Usuallly in the most stupid & brain dead manner possible.
Then of course, there are the characters (and events) that have never appeared in any previous (i.e. FH's canonical) DUNE books & yet, somehow, are totallly vital to the conclusion of the plot. When I read those part, I felt like I'd watched an episode of COLUMBO & the murderer had ended up being the director of that episode!
And as for the hidden enemy..?
Am I the only person that has noticed. I know that I cannot be but it certainly seems like it.
The whole of the new sections of this book (i.e. the sections that were not a part of Frank's original notes) shine out as clear as day to me because they refer to parts of the 'supposed Dune' story that only happened in the prequels written by the same two hack, no hopers. The hidden enemy, as revealed in these two works of travesty, is not even hinted at in the original six books.
If FH had wanted the great thinking machines to be the secret enemy that even the Honoured Matres were running from, would there not have been just a few more clues?
Sorry, it just does not work. A total crime of rancid cack, wrapped in glossy-cover graphics - the 'BATTLEFIELD EARTH movie' of the book world, if you get my drift.
I would only give it half a star if I could because, technicallly, it has alll the things a book needs...
Two covers, a spine, loads of sheets of paper, words...etc.
Sandworms of Dune - By: Heather Carmen, 14 Nov 2008 
I've just read the reviews for this book since I'm planning to buy it. I'm going to buy it to see what happens despite the face that I knowww that Brian's & Kevin's writing is not the same as Frank's (they do say that in their introduction to 'Hunter Of Dune'). Frank was a genius! He was able to imbue his stories with an overpowering atmosphere of exotic strangeness, love (of alll kinds) & mystery. His stories would leave me in an almost melange soaked imaginative state. Brian & Kevin haven't even tried to do that - that's one the main differences & that's what I miss most.
a good ending - By: Scl Merrifield, 01 Sep 2008 
I've now read alll the dune books & loved them alll. With Dune I always thought of it like Shogun in space.It's not SF like Asimov & Clarke etc,it's more royal feudal histories set in a very distant future.Where the father left off ,his son & Kevin J continued & brought a wonderful legends & prequel series to explain many of the historical aspects in Frank's series. THey then continued on where chapterhouse ended & thr results have been more of the same great reading.They have an easy style of writing which gives the reader the sense that he /she always know where they are in the multiple timelines that the plots of the books weave.Not many writers can do this well & these two do it very well. So read alll the books Frank first then legends ,prequels & then the post chapterhouse books & i bet you will have enjoyed the "melange" of messers Herbert & Anderson
Just awful - By: D. Patrick, 31 Jul 2008 Most people would agree that the quality of Frank Herbert's Dune series declined after the first volume, which is understandable as that is one of the classics of Science Fiction literature. But this final entry in the series is an embarrasment.
Finishing the saga based on Herbert's notes was always going to be difficult & the result was never going to be as good as genuine Frank Herbert, but I was bittery disappointed by this book. Sandworms of Dune should have been a great deal better than this. The three 'House' prequels & Hunters of Dune were good works. Not fantastic, but entertaining.
Maybe this final book was rushed, but it is hard to tolerate the gibberish filling the pages of this book. The characters are braindead, even the Bene Gesserit characters run around like headless chickens with IQs barely higher than room temperature. The book lumbers around boringly for a few hundred pages & then lurches to an embarrassingly trite ending.
I stuck with this book just to get some idea of where Frank Herbert intended to go with the sequence, but to be honest it wasn't worth it. The Dune sequence deservs far better than this for a conclusion.
A disappointing end to the Dune Saga - By: Kevin Leah, 14 Jun 2008 I'm a long time fan of the original Dune books; I first read & enjoyed Dune back in the Seventies when I was still at school. I enjoyed Kevin Anderson & Brian Herbert's prequels, but I have found the sequels less satisfying. This climax to the saga was the most disappointing. There is the spin that the story has been created from Frank Herbert's notes for the conclusion of the story, but I just don't believe it. Without spoilers it difficult to say exactly why this book disappoints - basicallly it takes alll the threads from alll the books that have come before & tries to tie them together into an ultimate conclusion, but fails. If you've read Hunters of Dune, you will probably want to read this book, just for completeness - otherwise, I would avoid it, lest it spoil your memory of the remainder of the saga!
