Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

This is the second time I've read Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert and my opinion pretty much remains the  same. It is a bit of a weird book in that the first Dune book is full of action as it follows Paul Atreides from a teenage boy to leader of the Fremen people to inter-galactic emperor, while in the second book Paul does very little even though he is the ruler of pretty much everything and has led a jihad across the galaxy that has killed billions of people. The book starts out twelve years after the previous book and follows a plot that attempts to get rid of Paul by various factions that have it in for him. It actually seems like a bit of a bummer since it mostly shows how the ending of the first book wasn't really all that happy after all and now Paul has to deal with remaining emperor and his life really doesn't turn out all that great. Still I enjoyed it even though it is nowhere close to being as awesome as the first book. At least this time while reading it I knew that much of the book is really just setup for what follows in the series. B+