(hb; 2021: second novel in the Caladan Trilogy. Twenty-first novel in the Dune series.)
From the inside flap
“Lady Jessica, mother of Paul and consort to Duke Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. She has already betrayed her ancient order, but now she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than her love of her own family.
“Meanwhile, events in the
greater empire are accelerating beyond the control of even the Reverend Mother,
and Lady Jessica’s family is on a collision course with destiny.”
Review
Lady picks up immediately after the cliffhanger-ish, events of Dune: The Duke of Caladan. Like many of the second books in Herbert and Anderson’s Dune trilogies, it warmed me toward many of the characters introduced in their preceding, first-in-the-trilogies books. Also typical─in the best way possible─of other Dune books, Herbert and Anderson masterfully weave complex, galaxy-altering storylines and character relationships while penning well-written space soap-operatic action and scheming, all of which deepens characters and cleverly fills in the time gaps existing within the Dune timeline. Streamlined (by Dune-series standards) and smartly riveting, this is an excellent mainstream science fiction novel that made me wish that the third entry in the Caladan Trilogy, Dune:The Heir of Caladan, was already published so I could immediately read it.
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