A review by shortcub
House Harkonnen by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert

2.0

Having now read two novels in the prelude to Dune series and the two novels that finished Frank Herbert’s original Dune Chronicles I have come to the conclusion that anything not written by Frank is garbage. House Harkonnen does little to progress the overall plot of these prequel novels. Instead what we have is a bloated novel with characters who hardly have any bearing on the main plot. To further the problem these side characters, after hundreds of pages, are unceremoniously killed off. Their deaths only serve the purpose of getting rid of characters who do not factor into Frank’s Dune Chronicles.

In short this novel is boring, overly long, bloated, meandering, and unnecessary.