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mermaidreef

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Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance
Universe Quest: Maasverse
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My Taste
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
Babel
Bride
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)
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  • Shield of Sparrows
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    The Stolen Throne (Dominion, #2)

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    The Ministry of Time

    The Ministry of Time

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    The Stolen Throne (Dominion, #2)

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  • Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)
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  • Crime and Punishment
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    Made it to the crime.

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  • Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
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    Struggling. I think I went in with high hopes after hearing my friends talk about it. It all seems a bit surface level and shallow. The similarities to Hunger Games bothered me a bit too.

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  • Deep End
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    "He has a nice voice, deep and resonant."

    I'm sensing a theme here 🤭

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  • A Little Life
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    I didn’t read it, I survived it.

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  • The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
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  • Manacled
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    This is so much darker than I was expecting

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  • Dune (Dune, #1)
    mermaidreef
    Nov 16, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0
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    Frank Herbert wanted to write a textbook so bad but he wrote this instead. I have to (begrudgingly) admit that this is a masterpiece. The scope of the world, the way the world is built, the detail, the exploration of colonialism and how this interacts with environmental issues, the intersection/separation of religion and politics, the effects of religious fervor on a group of people, the examination of religion as a tool of the oppressor? And then to do that WHILE creating a world entirely from scratch when it's hard enough to explore those themes artfully in a novel about the real world? Insane

    And all of that comes at the price of character development, interesting characters, entertaining scenes imo. The characters are interesting, but mostly as archetypes/ideas and not as people. The story is mostly told through dialogue, but with a heavy dose of internal monologue on both sides of the interaction. Frank Herbert's characters feel more like chess pieces than they do people, which is what I think allows him to make this world so massive and the scope of it so huge. It's just not a fun book to read! A breathtaking achievement in science fiction! Just not fun!

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