Millennium's Rule 01. Thief's Magic

Trudi Canavan is my favourite author. That's why I was so excited for this one. Unfortunately my expectations were too high. I lost interest halfway through the book because the story wasn't that appealing to me. A trilogy I won't finish..

Trudi Canavan kann definitiv toll schreiben und hat wahnsinnig spannende Ideen. Leider fängt sie damit in diesem ersten Buch nicht wirklich viel an. Die Flucht, die Tyen hinter sich bringt, ist mühsam zu lesen, mit Charakter Beziehungen, die nie ganz zünden. Es wird sich nie ganz entschieden, was nun mit Vella anzufangen ist, dabei ist das eine so tolle Idee. Rielles Geschichte war einfach nur langweilig. Vielleicht bin ich auch einfach müde, von solch konservativen Gesellschaften zu lesen. Aber da war einfach keine Liebe. Das Ende war wieder gut, aber ich habe Angst, dass es mir immer so gehen wird in dieser Reihe. Vielversprechender Anfang, dsnn leider viel zu langgezogene Langeweile.

German review on GosuReviews After the somewhat disappointing second magician's trilogy by Trudi Canavan I had high hopes for her new book series in a completely new universe. And it started out great. I liked the magic system, which had a few similarities to the one used in her previous books, but far more worked out. Story wise I liked the first part with the introduction to the world and Tyen as well, but then I got to part Two and it all went downhill from there. The story about Rielle is just a unimaginative and cheese YA love story. The fact that everything just happens to her and she isn't striving to archive a goal makes this story even more uninteresting. Most of the time events are out of her control. Both main characters, as it turns out, are so naive it often times hurt reading reading about their decision making (oh, they tried to have me killed, sure I can trust them this time, they obviously act for the greater good). My main quarrel with the whole book is that there are no intersections between the two plots. Ok there are a few mentions of the past events giving a better general view, but besides this the stories have absolutely nothing to do with each other and never cross paths. And the endings to both plot strands were equally dissatisfying and didn't feel like a proper ending, more like a cut so that the book isn't getting too long. The premise of the book is actually pretty great, but I think Trudi Canavan botched the start completely. I will give the next book a try though, maybe she can turn things around.