Book Review The accidental Ambassador
Book: The accidental Ambassador
Author: Da Barr
Pages: 369
Hard Core Scale: 1/4
Normal Scale: 6/10
Publish Date: 2016
About: The Ttraco dragon blue has been sent to Earth to find a special
boy that can unite mankind to the stars, but nothing ever goes as planned.
Short Review: I was sent this review copy after discussion with the Author of
his far, far superior second book. The thing is rife with senses of first book
and stapled together half-hazardly. Many fun and great ideas marred in early
bibliographic development. A lot of this could be cut as it serves no purpose.
The Ttraco as a species wedged in Trekkie Mary Sue uncanny valleyness which
upon looking feel more like a threat to galactic community than all of humanity
as a whole. The book flips tone and genre flow several times as it could not
decide what it wanted to be. Pacing was all over the place with severe need of
actual natural transitions. Character description outside of the Ttacco was
lacking. Things were often told not shown usually bogging down the work with
unneeded things that could be cut. Wasted abd confusing frame. The plot is a
jamble mess transiting in random leaps of waxing and waning importance with the
additive of Ttraco sueness often led to no feeling of danger and ruined sense
of disbelief. Ends are Deus exed poorly. I suppose if anything it got my
imagination turning in all the obsifucation. For a dragon lover this may be
right up their alley, but it is a first novel marred in its issues. I am happy
Darr has grasped a lot of writing since 2016. The author is
planning on rewriting this and going to republish with his new skills because you can do
this with self-publishing. Outside of this first book he is a very good writer, so he'll probably rework this into a miracle.
