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“When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. She’s not the person she’s always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel—all because of Finn Holmes.
Finn is a mysterious guy who always seems to be watching her. Every encounter leaves her deeply shaken…though it has more to do with her fierce attraction to him than she’d ever admit. But it isn’t long before he reveals the truth: Wendy is a changeling who was switched at birth—and he’s come to take her home.
Now Wendy’s about to journey to a magical world she never knew existed, one that’s both beautiful and frightening. And where she must leave her old life behind to discover who she’s meant to become…”
I basically got this book because someone posted a picture of the trilogy and found the plot original (i.e. no vampires). I’d never come across a fantasy novel about trolls. One always tends to imagine them as big hairy greenish beings that cannot string a four-word sentence that made sense for the life of them.
We meet Wendy, a teenager who has a family past which is kind of horrible. She lives with her brother, who loves her to bits. At school she meets mysterious Finn, who turns her world upside down. He introduces her to the truth, she is actually a member of the Trylle.
The relationship with her real mother is nothing but troublesome. This woman, Elora, is very strict and quite a bit nasty from time to time, but we soon learn that she has her reasons, and beyond all that facade there is actually a woman who has been through hell and back.
We get to meet other equally interesting characters, remember these are kids who were placed in other kids’ places. So there are both sides of the story, the replacement and the replaced. The replaced children are banned from leaving the trylle community until the real Trylle come back to it. Then they have a choice, so some stay and some leave.
I was a bit bored at first, to be honest. I didn’t understand where the story was going and I didn’t find the action super interesting. UNTIL I GOT TO THE SECOND BOOK where we meet Loki. That name means sexy trouble… He has all the right amounts of sexy, witty, sensitive and crazy. From then on the action picks up and it’s almost impossible to put the books down.
The struggle this girl goes through trying to come to grips with everything that has happened and is going to happen to her in her life is at times heart-breaking. It’s like she’s constantly discovering new things and seeing the events in her past in a new light.
There is also the fact that she is some sort of princess, which means that one day she will rule over the Trylle, much to the Vittra king’s dismay and rage. War breaks out and the lines dividing right and wrong get blurred. The social and power struggles are very present throughout the novels, which makes all the romance in the novels not seem overdone, because there is the same amout of action and suspence in them.
This is one of those stories for which I took a leap of faith, and it was totally worth it!
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Angela.
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