Book Reviews: The Ambassador's Mission

This is another book by Trudi Canavan, set in the same universe as her Black Magician trilogy and her The Magician's Apprentice prequel. It's the first book in a trilogy called The Traitor Spy trilogy. It's got many of the same characters as the Black Magician trilogy, but the focus has shifted onto the next generation.

I liked the jump forward in time and how the world I knew was facing new threats and challenges which were very different to previous books. Though I liked the new characters, I actually thought that the older characters were still the more interesting group. The younger generation seemed to lack their own identities and were merely their parents' children. As the start of a trilogy it works well, but considered by itself it's not as good. The ending isn't very satisfying and there are a lot of questions left unanswered. The focus seems to have been on setting up the next books rather than having much action in this one. Still, it has achieved what it meant to though, in that I'm eager to find out what happens in the next book.