Dune Messiah

While “Dune” took me several months to read, “Dune Messiah” took me a week. Fully engrossed in the hype surrounding the recently release 2021 movie adaptation, I sped right through hoping I didn't miss too much subtext (there's no way I was going to catch it all on my first read anyways). The completion of Paul's arc masterfully cements the entire theme of the first two Dune books. I was enchanted from the very beginning.