Thief's Magic

Trudi Canavan

2014 • 561 pages

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Average rating3.6

In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen's world faces. Elsewhere, in a land ruled by the priests, Rielle the dyer's daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows she has a talent for it, and that there is a corrupter in the city willing to teach her how to use it, should she dare to risk the Angels' wrath. But not everything is as Tyen and Rielle have been raised to believe. Not the nature of magic, nor the laws of their lands. Not even the people they trust.

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3 primary books

#1 in Millennium's Rule

Millennium's Rule is a 3-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Trudi Canavan.

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Fran

Leer este libro fue como tener que armar un puzzle y no saber que lo tenía que armar, hasta qué llega el final y lo veo todo armado frente a mi.

February 25, 2020

SuziSupporter

It's been over 10 years since I first read this book and I didn't continue on with the series at the time, so definitely needed a reread to be able to carry on.

There's something so comforting about Trudi Canavan's writing, I've read all of her other books so just this series left to finish.

That said, reading this again I did have some slight issues - I found Rielle's storyline a bit slow and less exciting than Tyen's. This picked up towards the end and I'm looking forward to seeing how the two POVs come together in the next book.

July 23, 2014

Barbi

Fantastic Fantasy. I thought the focus was going to be on Tyen and then it all of sudden switched to another character and then back and forth between the two. A lot of storylines didn't finish and it's obviously setting up for the next book. Great read!

January 25, 2016