Trudi Canavan: Thief's Magic

Hi everyone

Thief's Magic is the first book in the latest series by Trudi Canavan; Millennium's Rule.
I got my copy from Bol.com.

"Forget what you know about the nature of magic.
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 an 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. . . and not even the people they trust."

It's sad. I really enjoyed Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy and I loved her The Age of the Five trilogy (I want to reread those) so I was expecting to enjoy this series too. But this was not as good as I had hoped. Far from.
I thought this was really boring, very slow and just uninteresting. The characters were dull, naieve and stupidly simple. There's too many info-dumps. The story is very YA and too romantic for my tastes.

I won't be continuing the series. 

Happy reading!
Helena