"What do you think of Sirantha Jax representing your interests on Ithiss-Tor?" 
 "Well, it's a bit of a joke, isn't it?" 
 "In what way?" 
 "What kind of training has she had?" the girl demands. "They may as well have sent me. I saw her for years, showing her tits on the midnight bounce. Table dancing, amateur soft-porn vids, drunk-and-disorderly conduct, barroom brawls . . . how does any of that qualify her to be an ambassador? It's damn near the dumbest thing I've ever heard." 
 Yeah that's the thing, random girl interviewed in an annoying style-changing news report add-on. It is a dumb idea. It is also a dumb idea to go to a planet filled with aliens who want to kill you as an ambassador without any sort of security team or way to escape or a support team who actually know stuff about politics or the economy or anything. Also, not enough of the side characters and no one is any fun at all at any part of this boring story. I hope the next book is subtitled How Sirantha Got Her Groove Back cos she is lame-o right now, and I think she even knows it.