Meantime Jessica has returned to the folds of the Bene Gesserit and has now been sent back to Arrakis (Dune) for reasons that remain somewhat hazy.
Abominable Alia and Baron Harkonnen from the 2003 TV Mini Series – imagine having him inside your head! Leto and Ghani look on this as a warning and are assiduously avoiding doing the spice drug conversion thingy that Rev Mothers do, as they think this is what caused Alia to become Abominable. Until now I thought the horrid little kids who sing the duet in Polar Expresswere the creepiest children ever, but Leto and Ghani have them beat hands down! Alia, meantime, has overindulged so much in the spice drug melange that she has become what the Bene Gesserit feared – an Abomination! No longer able to control all the voices of her ancestors inside her head, she has fallen under the influence of the strongest of them – the evil Baron Harkonen. His weird little children, Leto and Ghanima, take after their Auntie Alia in so many ways – prescient, gifted or cursed with the memories of all their ancestors, nuts.
It is 9 years since the blinded and heartbroken Paul Muad’dib walked off into the desert of Dune to die. (This is the third book in the Dune series and therefore the review will contain spoilers for the first two, Dune and Dune Messiah.