The Lost City (The Omte Origins, #1)
Amanda Hocking
New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking returns to the magical world of the Trylle with The Lost City, the first book in the final Trylle arc.Nestled along the bluffs of the forested coast lays the secret kingdom of the Omte—a realm filled with wonder...and as many secrets. Ulla Tulin was left abandoned in an isolated Kanin city as a baby, taken in by strangers and raised hidden away like many of the trolls of mixed blood. Even knowing this truth, she’s never stopped wondering about her family. When Ulla is offered an internship working alongside the handsome Pan Soriano at the Mimirin, a prestigious institution, she jumps at the chance to use this opportunity to hopefully find her parents. All she wants is to focus on her job and the search for her parents, but all of her attempts to find them are blocked when she learns her mother may be connected to the Omte royal family. With little progress made, Ulla and Pan soon find themselves wrapped up in helping Eliana, an amnestic girl with abilities unlike any they have ever seen before—a girl who seems to be running from something. To figure out who she is they must leave the city, and possibly, along the way, they may learn more about Ulla’s parents.
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04.25 Stars
Oh, to be back in Amanda Hocking's troll world. Ah, I love this place.
This book was just as amazing as the previous entries in the troll world! I loved the little bits we got to see of characters from previous books at the beginning and that just made me jump right back into the world I love and missed.
Ulla is a great character. She seems like she has a great head on her shoulders despite that she hasn't had the ideal life. All of the characters were really well done and I loved getting to learn more about them as the story progressed.
I like the idea that we're not only discovering the origins of Ulla, but also the troll world as a whole. That makes for a good bit of mystery and I do really enjoy mystery in my books.
Overall, I really enjoyed this, I flew right through it and moved immediately on to the sequel!
Cover 4; characters 4; Plot 4; Pace 5; Writing 4; Enjoyment 5.
0This was a very quick dnf – I chose to mark it as dnf at four percent… that’s a very quick choice. I didn’t realise this was a spin-off sequel/prequel series to the original Trylle trilogy. It wasn’t really marketed properly.
I’ve only read the first book like years ago, I can’t remember if I liked it or not. The very very little I read of this didn’t really impress me much?
The formatting was a bit off as well. Several times if a book started with the letters f and i (five, first etc) it would disappear. So it wouldn’t say five but ve, not first but rst. I was able to get what the sentence was, but it kept taking me out of the story, which also led to me wanting to dnf.
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