Author: Amanda Hocking
Publisher: Tor
First published: 2010
Pages: 328 pages
Series: Trylle Trilogy
Star rating: *****
What if your entire world was built on a lie?
Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she’s not the monster her mother claims she is – she does feel that she doesn’t quite fit in...
She’s bored and frustrated by her small town life – and then there’s the secret that she can’t tell anyone. Her mysterious ability – she can influence people’s decisions, without knowing how, or why...
When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom window one night – her world is turned upside down. He holds the key to her past, the answers to her strange powers and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist. Förening, the home of the Trylle.
Finally everything makes sense. Among the Trylle, Wendy is not just different, but special. But what marks her out as chosen for greatness in this world also places her in grave danger. With everything around her changing, Finn is the only person she can trust. But dark forces are conspiring – not only to separate them, but to see the downfall everything that Wendy cares about.
The fate of Förening rests in Wendy’s hands, and the decisions she and Finn make could change all their lives forever...
The premise of this book didn't sound overly original, but it was about trolls! Most books are about Vampires, faeries, Witches, Wizards, werewolves and that kind of stuff. But this is the first I have encountered that featured trolls outside of a fantasy realm.
The trolls in this book are not really troll like. When someone says troll to me I think of those ugly dump creatures from Lord of the Rings. That is not the case with Amanda Hocking. When someone says troll to her it is a person who looks rather human and with humanintelligence, short tempered, hate shoes, prefer organic food, crazy hair and sometimes some weird superpowers. This is when I go WHAT? You call that a troll? That just sounds like human with some special interests and superpowers, not a troll.
Aside from the fact that the trolls are rather weird, the world of Förening is really awesome. So if we could just swap those excuses for some trolls with real trolls or superheroes it would be awesome! We can keep the trackers and the mänskligs.
The characters in this book were alright, they weren't the best characters ever, but they weren't irritating either... At least most of the time they weren't.
Wendy was a fine character I didn't love her or anything, but she made some good and bad choices, was lucky and unlucky, sometimes i wanted to just slap her in the face, but other times I was cheering her along.
Finn -The love interest if hadn't figured that out from the synopsis was an okay character but he was rather withdrawn and one moment he is one way and a few pages later he is a whole other person. It's like he keeps on changing personality to fit the story and that is rather irritating
Asides from those two I liked most of the other characters. I really likes Rhys, he was always so happy compared to all the others and i liked Rhiannon as well.
I have one more thing that is bugging me about this book; The ending. It felt so rushed and everything beforehand had been described in great detail and then the last part wrapped up so quickly and then it was just done...
So overall I liked this book, but is not my favourite book ever, since I had some issues with it but enjoyed the book in general.
The trolls in this book are not really troll like. When someone says troll to me I think of those ugly dump creatures from Lord of the Rings. That is not the case with Amanda Hocking. When someone says troll to her it is a person who looks rather human and with humanintelligence, short tempered, hate shoes, prefer organic food, crazy hair and sometimes some weird superpowers. This is when I go WHAT? You call that a troll? That just sounds like human with some special interests and superpowers, not a troll.
Aside from the fact that the trolls are rather weird, the world of Förening is really awesome. So if we could just swap those excuses for some trolls with real trolls or superheroes it would be awesome! We can keep the trackers and the mänskligs.
The characters in this book were alright, they weren't the best characters ever, but they weren't irritating either... At least most of the time they weren't.
Wendy was a fine character I didn't love her or anything, but she made some good and bad choices, was lucky and unlucky, sometimes i wanted to just slap her in the face, but other times I was cheering her along.
Finn -The love interest if hadn't figured that out from the synopsis was an okay character but he was rather withdrawn and one moment he is one way and a few pages later he is a whole other person. It's like he keeps on changing personality to fit the story and that is rather irritating
Asides from those two I liked most of the other characters. I really likes Rhys, he was always so happy compared to all the others and i liked Rhiannon as well.
I have one more thing that is bugging me about this book; The ending. It felt so rushed and everything beforehand had been described in great detail and then the last part wrapped up so quickly and then it was just done...
So overall I liked this book, but is not my favourite book ever, since I had some issues with it but enjoyed the book in general.
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