Foreigner (Foreigner Universe Books) by C. J. Cherryh

Kindly go to Amazon to get a summary of the plot – and sadly enough the plot you read on Amazon is much more exciting than the book itself!  This book is just so painfully boring.  The first chapter seemed  promising.  A human has a first encounter with an alien – they don’t understand each other, they look totally different from each other, but they want to get to know each other better and even help each other in their own way - great excitement and tension.  I was initially hooked and interested to find out how this relationship would develop.  Then immediately downhill from there.  While it’s supposed to be in an alien world, it is more about the political aspects life of a diplomant.  Oh, and on a world that happens to be alien, which was secondary.

After reading some great reviews on Amazon about this series, I mistakenly took the plunge and bought the whole series.  Big mistake.  I simply do not see what everyone raves about here!  I just don’t!  And I am determined to read them ALL because I spent the damn money on it!  I know, just plain stubborn and dumb, right?

To make things even more annoying for me I just did a search on what other books she had written.  Because her name did, in fact, seem familiar, but I couldn’t place which book of hers I had read.  Turns out she is also author of Downbelow Station - another book I despised!  Aaaaaaggh!  Wanted to knock my head on the PC monitor when I saw this.

Don’t by this one!  Horrible!