darth_ender said:

What do you think of the Anderson/Herbert prequels?

Well, what did you think of the Star Wars prequels?

Honestly, I think it's a pretty good analogy, especially if you pretend that post-1983 Lucas is a cash-whore relative of pre-1983 Lucas, since that's all Brian Herbert is - a cash-whore relative of Frank that doesn't care about pissing all over his father's legacy with books that get worse and worse (and started out pretty terrible to begin with). The less said about Anderson, the better.

Though I have not read his/Anderson's two-part sequel to Chapterhouse, but I've not heard anything good about it...