If you've made it this far into the Dune series, then you should get an award. This is book number 17 in the Dune universe, and number 11 by the original author's son Brian and coauthor Kevin Anderson.
Sisterhood of Dune is the first book of the planned Schools of Dune Trilogy. It follows the schools of the Mentats, the Bene Gesseritt, and the Suk Doctors eighty years after the end of the Butlerian Jihad.
Instead of dying out after the destruction of Omnius and his Thinking Machine empire, the Butlerian movement has grown stronger, turning to the mechanical conveniences of man. As the Butlerian leader Manford Torondo grows stronger in the Imperium, Mentat leader Gilbertus Albans and Reverend Mother Raqquella struggle to conceal dark secrets from their pasts.
But that isn't all. After watching his family get kidnapped by slavers, Vorian Atreides returns to the public to protect his home on the planet Kepler. After being forced to leave his home to protect his family, Vorian goes to the planet Arrakis to try and talk to the Freemen, or the Fremen. After seeing him on Salusa Secundus, Abulurd Harkonnen's great-grandchildren hunt him so they can avenge Abulurd and his grandfather Xavier. What's more, the Titan Agammemnon's two other children have woken up, and are hunting Vorian Atreides as well.
This book, like most of the other Dune books, had a thing or two to say about the balance between caution and extremism. It wasn't anything that hadn't been said before, whether in the previous Dune trilogy or in Frank Herbert's original series.
The worst I have to say about it is that it was a boring waste of five hundred pages. Like the two previous Brian Dune novels Paul of Dune and The Winds of Dune, it felt unjustified, like there wasn't any reason for it to be written anyway. It switched viewpoints way too much, so it was hard to tell sometimes which character was doing what. And there were too many characters to switch between, as well. It was like a Wheel of Time book on steroids.
If you're a diehard Dune fan, this may or may not be good, depending on whether or not you like Brian Herbert's books. If you don't, than you'll hate this book. For those who've only read the original Dune chronicles, it won't matter to you if you read this or not.
50%, and that's being generous
