The Ambassador's Mission
- 513
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Ambassador’s Mission” opens Trudi Canavan’s “Traitor Spy” trilogy with real suspense, a generation after the Black Magician books. Sonea, now a Black Magician, faces exile if she leaves the city, yet her son Lorkin has gone missing in Sachaka, a land of slave-owning magicians. Some readers find that frequent switches between four viewpoints, whose storylines rarely meet, sap the momentum. Readers of the first trilogy will meet Sonea and Dannyl again.
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About the book
Sonea, once the despised commoner in the Magicians' Guild, is now a Black Magician of Kyralia. Though she is now part of the establishment, she comes to find that the past is not so easily left behind... Lorkin, Sonea's rebellious son, has volunteered to join the formidable Lord Dannyl in his new post as Guild Ambassador to Sachaka - a land ruled by cruel, slave-owning black magicians. There is suspicion that some of the Sachakans still harbor dreams of conquest, so when word comes that Lorkin has gone missing, Sonea is desperate to find him. However, Guild law states that if a Black Magician leaves the city he or she will be exiled forever. As she fears for her missing son, Sonea dedicates herself to helping her old friend Cery. For some time, there has been fear and paranoia on the streets of Imardin. Leading thieves have been dying under irregular circumstances. The need to discover who has been picking off the leading thieves of the city is now a very personal crusade - one that Sonea must aid, for the killer appears to be using magic. Either a member of the Guild is leading a double life as a hired killer, or there is - once again - a rogue magician on the streets of Imardin . . .
Reading order · The Traitor Spy Trilogy
Full order & progress →- The Ambassador's MissionThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - The Rogue
7.97.9 / 10 - The Traitor Queen
7.97.9 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 94 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 39% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 94 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Ambassador's Mission?
It has 513 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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