[Dragaera] DZUR SPOILER--serious one

[Gorelick Ken]

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So, I am a Vladdict. I admit it. Maybe I need to enter a 17 step  
program. Nonetheless, I found myself disappointed by Cawti. She has  
gone from being Vlad's SUPERIOR in the area where he considers  
himself to be a pro, to a complete nobody. Far from the consummate  
Jhereg assassin, and even far from the Socialist revolutionary, she  
is now a housewife. Her entire role in this book was to create the  
situation that Vlad needed to solve. And at the end, like a good  
little hausfrau, she brings the baby along.

Vlad has grown in maturity and power while Cawti seems like a Tolkien  
Elf at the end of the Fourth Age--totally shrunken, diminished,  
virtually gone.

Is this her swan song? What can Vlad possibly see in her any longer.  
After the limited dialog (in both senses) between them, were I Vlad I  
would know it was time to move on.

Oh, well, I guess Verra messing with Vlad's memory is the setup  
whereby he eventually discovers that Cawti never was the Dagger, but  
that the offspring will be the true Muad'dib...or was the issue with  
Vlad's memory merely an exercise in bringing the multiple crashes of  
our favorite board into a place where, perhaps, something the AUTHOR  
had saved and lost will now be explained....

Ken