Since I just finished reading Wake, Hocking’s first book published entirely through her new traditional publisher, I couldn’t help making some comparisons.
It’s a good bet for anyone who wants a fun, easy read with some action and good romance. The story and writing are fairly formulaic and the idea isn’t very original, in that a girl who doesn’t fit in ends up finding out she’s a mythical creature and royal, to boot, but the story is engaging. I decided to check it out now that it’s been edited by a professional (it makes me a little crazy to read something that hasn’t been edited well, and errors are very distracting for me, so I figured this was a good bet for me), and it’s pretty good. This is Amanda Hocking’s best-selling self-published book that helped lead her eventually to a traditional publisher. Not unexpectedly, there are obstacles to her being able to date Finn, and danger lurks as she tries to get even halfway adjusted to her new life, and this book just gets the action started. But it is her new reality, and Finn makes her happy, so she wants to be where he is. Of course, she does end up having to go to Förening, and she finds she doesn’t feel any more at home there than she has in the “regular” world. Knowing there’s a good reason she’s never fit in is a little bit of a consolation, but then being told she must leave her brother and aunt and go back to a strange place (AND that she is the princess - naturally - and must learn to rule) is a tough pill to swallow. Pretty soon, though, she finds out that Finn has been tasked with bringing Wendy back to her true home: Förening, home of the Trylle.
She’s a little surprised but creeped out, though, when a new kid at her latest school keeps staring at her. Wendy has never felt that she has fit in anywhere her own mother tried to kill her when she was 6, and she has moved around a lot with her older brother and aunt because she’s been kicked out of school after school.
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