Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles, #6)

by Frank Herbert

624 pages

English language

Published June 15, 2019

ISBN:: 978-0-593-09827-1
Goodreads:: 44439416

Chapterhouse: Dune is a 1985 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the last in his Dune series of six novels. It rose to No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list. A direct follow-up to Heretics of Dune, the novel chronicles the continued struggles of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood against the violent Honored Matres, who are succeeding in their bid to seize control of the universe and destroy the factions and planets that oppose them. Chapterhouse: Dune ends with a cliffhanger, and Herbert's subsequent death in 1986 left some overarching plotlines of the series unresolved. Two decades later, Herbert's son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007) – based in part on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

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Olap@bookwyrm.social reviewed Chapter House Dune by Frank Herbert

Best of post Mua' Dib

4 stars

Well, this has it all - transhumanism, leadership, politics, wars, ethics. Written in Herbert's, even after 6 novels, rather challenging prose and with little brevity; the last 100 pages are page turners indeed. Will have to see what Brian and Kevin did also with notes about #7. But maybe next year

PeterB reviewed Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles, #6) by Frank Herbert

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4 stars

In the final book by Frank Herbert in the Dune saga, we follow the trials and tribulations of the Bene Gesserit. They are up against extinction by the Honored Matres. A faction returning from the Scattering with only one goal in mind: destruction.

Throughout the book we learn what motivates the different factions and the people in those factions. This all concludes in a big face-off between the two sisterhoods. And ends in a giant cliffhanger.

The style of this book is exactly the same as previous books. It has parts that tend to drag on just a little too long and a few pages later it has you turning pages as fast as possible.

It's a great continuation of the story, but it is most definitely not a conclusion. In fact, there's a lot of hinting at what could happen next, which kind of got on my nerves by the end of the book.

There's also Scytale which seems like a completely superfluous character with no real development throughout the book. Although he gets quite a number of pages in the book. I suppose this is a setup for later books which never got written (or maybe Brian Herbert did? I will need to find out)

This book will really get you interested in the Dune universe and where it's heading. It saddens me that there are only two books chronologically after this one and they are not by Frank Herbert himself.