Monday, March 29, 2021

2021 book 75

 Trudi Canavan’s The Ambassador's Mission

The Traitor Spy series is set 20ish years after the Black Magician series, but the main characters remain the same (with the addition of one young adult child). There are a few separate plot lines going on—ambassadors to a new country; someone hunting down Thieves; the protagonist from the previous series doing various things. The first two drag a bit (the Thief's quest for vengeance should be interesting, but is mainly just thinking up convoluted traps that don’t go anywhere, plus the villain is obvious), but things pick up as the plot lines start to come together—and as we start to see glimpses of a hidden matriarchal society! Goddammit, just when I thought I was out, she pulled me back in. B.

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