Title: Thief’s Magic
Author: Trudi Canavan
Series: Millennium’s Rule #1
Released: May 13th 2014
Publisher: Orbit
Book Summary:
In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, discovers a sentient book in an ancient tomb. Vella was once a young sorcerer-maker, until she was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been gathering information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen’s world faces.
Elsewhere, in a land ruled by the priests since a terrible war depleted all but a little magic, Rielle the dyer’s daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows from her ability to sense the stain it leaves behind that she has a talent for it, and that there are people willing to teach her how to use it, should she ever need to risks the Angels’ wrath.
Further away, a people called the Travelers live their entire lives on the move, trading goods from one world to another. They know that each world has its own store of magic, reducing or increasing a sorcerer’s abilities, so that if one entered a weak world they may be unable to leave it again. Each family maintains a safe trading route passed down through countless generations and modified whenever local strife makes visiting dangerous. But this is not the only knowledge the Travelers store within their stories and songs, collected over millennia spent roaming the universe. They know a great change is due, and that change brings both loss and opportunity.
Jan Review:
4 stars
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I really enjoy this author work i read her Black Magician trilogy when i was in highschool and really enjoyed it. This is a whole new series in a whole new world and i really like how their where two seperate stories going on in this story. I was hoping that the two would merge at some point in the story but that never happens. Which i think was the author intention all along she wanted you get to hooked by these two characters, draw you in and leave you so you want to see where it all goes. Great start to the new series.
