God Emperor of Dune

by Frank Herbert

Kindle Edition, 604 pages

English language

Published Aug. 28, 2008 by Ace.

ASIN:: B001F0WXX6

(19 reviews)

Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.

Leto’s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot’s rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto’s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted—or could possibly conceive....

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Delia reviewed God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

Audiobook = 15 hours of wormsplaining

1 star

As always, I like Herbert’s descriptions of worlds… but this book was claustrophobic and odd. Some explanation, any explanation, of the golden path as being anything other than avoiding some other unnamed “big bad” would have made it more tolerable. Usually Herbert pulls off some plot twist at the end that renders the whole thing as masterful but when one of the female characters had an orgasm when Duncan threw the rope down towards her from the top of a wall… I knew then I wasn’t going to get anything that made any sense. I liked the concept of Duncans as time travellers of a sort, and of having a community as a mind, and what 3500 years of time might look like; but the approach to women, and sex, and horrors homosexuality was so odd. Not sure about approaching the next in the series… could it get any weirder???