Lord have mercy this was a train wreck. This was supposed to be a direct sequel to Dune, filling in the cool shit that happened between it and Messiah. But no! This is filled with so much nonsense! Ugh. If you haven’t read the prequel trilogy Brian and Kevin wrote, you’ll be hella confused at half the shit that happens. The majority of this book was a flashback to pre-Dune, post House Corrino events. About 1/3 of this book could actually be considered a direct sequel. The shit they did with Margo Fenring and the daughter she conceived with Feyd Routha was utter bullshit and didn’t make any sense to the plot of the story. It came out of nowhere and was just dumb. It felt like they took the writing advice of “make the worst thing happen to you characters and see how they react” to the extreme and it was just annoying. And holy fuck do they hate fat people. There was a fat sword master and he was like “look at the fat fatty mcfatterson. He’s so fucking fat how can he hold a sword. He’s so huge and fat.” I was like damn dude. Chill. I get it. Overall, a lame ass book.