3.5 - This one took a while and way longer than I expected. I thought I'd be absolutely obsessed but I wasn't. Not sure if it's because I'd seen the movies and knew the main plot points. There is no world building, the world is already BUILT, and at times it was so crazy how thought out it is, but sometimes it was just overwhelming and confusing, which led to some points of just not understanding what was being said. The pacing was both slow and fast, I feel like some big parts of the plot were mere sentences and just happened (Paul's prescience and Rabban), I thought it would've been fleshed out more. I loved the espionage chapter at the very beginning, and wished there were more on the Bene Gesserit training/abilities.
Despite all this, I enjoyed it nonetheless. I didn't mind seeing the movie cast as the book characters, great casting. Bring on Messiah. 10th book this year WOOOO.