The Vondish Ambassador by Lawrence Watt-EvansMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Better than average for the series, with the author's usual fresh premise. A young dockworker happens to be the first person the ambassador from the new Empire of Vond sees when he arrives in Ethshar of the Spices, and gets recruited as a local guide and assistant. Fortunately, he's intelligent and loyal, and both foils an assassination plot against his employer and helps the ambassador's mission to succeed. (I don't really consider those spoilers, because this is the kind of book where of course he does, and the real entertainment factor is seeing how he does it.)
Apart from a "crevice" that sounds a lot more like a crevasse, and a few minor typos of the level of missing quotation marks, it's well edited. I continue to be a bit skeptical about how good-hearted and averse to war (and, highlighted in this book, assassination) the people of Ethshar are, given that this is also a society that has slavery, but real human societies are weird and full of contradictions.
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