The Machine Crusade is the second in a trilogy of the Legends of Dune, chronicling the Butlerian Jihad of man battling intelligent machines. This book didn’t contribute anything sufficiently important to warrant its own volume, it should have been incorporated into the other two works in the series.
I was sorely disappointed in this book. The writing is bad, the dialog horrible. The Dune series is famous for its political intrigue, but in this book, the resolutions came too quickly and felt contrived. It was difficult to work through the book, toward the end, I just wanted to finish it.
This book had extreme violence, which goes against the grain of all other Dune books i’ve read.
On the positive side, it was good to read about some of the early events in the universe and have things explained. At a high level, there were interesting events taking place, it just wasn’t well told.