been back in the country for 3 days and i've just been sleeping, eating and devouring my books. i just finished the Trylle trilogy by Amanda Hocking and it was amazing.
The Trylle trilogy is a young adult paranormal romance. about trolls.
I've read books about vampires, werewolves, faeries, elves, witches, valkyries, aliens, ghosts, immortals, etc etc. But, even to me, a coming of age story about a young teenage troll seems kinda ridiculous. And yet, 18 hours later with a smile on my face, I have to admit, this was one incredible story about trolls.
Meet Wendy Everly, a 17 year old girl whose never felt like she's quite fit in and incidentally whose own mother tried to kill her when she was 6. At the latest of her long string of schools from which she's been suspended/expelled, Wendy meets Finn Holmes, a tracker whose come to bring Wendy back to her true home and destiny. **insert epic music**
I really enjoyed this series. Amanda Hocking has a way of building not only an extremely detailed and believable world, but also filling it with characters with an incredible amount of depth that keep believably surprising me. From the very beginning, I felt like I could completely relate to Wendy, from when she meets Finn for the first time, to being thrown into a world with completely new rules and even more unbelievable expectations, from heartbreak, to finding love unexpectedly, from despair and then to ultimately triumphing in the end.
I never wanted the series to end. But it did. And if there was one thing that slightly marred the overall very satisfying experience, it was the HEA. I really do love my happily ever after's. But, this one was a little too happy, even for me. Wendy's whole journey was filled with conflicts and tough decisions, and even if she deserved all the happiness she got in the end, everything concluded a little too tidily. Okay, I admit it, it's because I have a soft spot for Finn. But also, since I respect how Amanda Hocking brought real life into paranormal fantasy, I will begrudgingly admit that Wendy made the right choice.
In any case, because I loved Trylle so much, I can't wait to read more of Amanda Hocking's works.
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