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Title: hey, this is actually kinda good!
Review: Unlike Herbert/Anderson's previous "Dune" trilogy, this time around the second book is not only as good as the first, it's quite a bit better. Sadly, the main problem from "the Butlerian Jihad" is held over: Herbert/Anderson BADLY need a competent editor. There are so many badly written sentences (and a few out-and-out grammatical errors) that it became distracting.Luckily, the plot is sufficiently good to keep me from being distracted for long. Once again, I can't honestly say that it meshes up perfectly with Frank Herbert's work, but on its own, this is a pretty gripping sci-fi epic, with memorable characters (I'm particularly fond of Erasmus, one of the better villains I've read in a while) and a satisfying ambition.Maybe future editions can clean up some of the sloppy prose and correct some of the errors. It's a shame for a fundamentally good work to be marred by material that is entirely fixable.
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