Book Review: Dune Messiah

At the end of my copy of Frank Herbert's Dune, I read an essay mentioning that protagonist Paul Atreides, a.k.a. Muad'Dib, would go on to be quite the tyrannical antihero. This seemed a little odd given all his setup as a messianic figure, which was clear even before I knew the next title in the series. But then, we are talking about a messiah brought about by human rather than divine intervention. No matter what powers he attains or what he does with them, no matter how many prophecies he fulfills, the guiding hands are hardly perfect.

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Wanting a break from books about threats to a whole world, I have picked up Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. It'll take till after my birthday to finish, but I'm liking the style so far.