Review – Ambassador 1: Seeing Red
While reading Ambassador 1:Seeing Red, I’ve been guilty of putting it down and not thinking about it for a few days (or even weeks) before I would pick it up again. And honestly, the reason why I would continue reading it is for this review. So, yea, you guessed it, I’d Skip it, if I were you.
But the question in my mind was why did I find it so un-engaging? The book started with a bang (literally – a bomb blew up) with ramifications for our protagonist and the wider world. It’s true that I didn’t know much about the world or the main character before the explosion, so that did make it harder to put it into context. I mean, maybe these things happen all the time… But as I continued reading and I got to know the characters and the world better, I still found it hard to care.
And then it hit me, the character had no impact on the world. Things were happening to him. To be fair, he was trying to do things, but every time he was met with excuses and delay tactics and… Well, it was not interesting to read.
There was even a high speed car chase, but again our protagonist was sitting in the back seat… and that’s how the book feels, you’re not reading about the driver, you’re reading about the guy in the back seat.
