Ascend – Trylle Trilogy #3
Amanda Hocking
2.5/5 Stars
Ascend is the finale of the Trylle
trilogy – a series which I read back-to-back (to back) because I
had them on hand and enjoyed them enough to do so. Ascend was
probably the most disappointing of the trilogy – which is sad, as
it's the series finale.
The book felt like a hastily written
ending, which tried to wrap itself up too quickly.
It felt like Hocking was trying to
force her readers to create “Teams” for her two...or three male
love interests. You could either be “Team Finn” or “Team Loki”.
Of course, there's also her platonic husband, Tove – I'm not sure
if anyone was “Team Tove”, though. She introduced Loki far too
abruptly and the entire relationship between him and the protagonist,
Wendy seemed contrived at best. That being said, her relationship
with Finn frequently made absolutely no sense – he likes her, he
doesn't – he loves her, he won't look at her – just not a
character you envision being the main love interest. I wasn't happy
with who Wendy ended up with at the end of the book – but, to be
fair, none of the options would have made me happy.
I did enjoy the changes we saw in Wendy
– becoming a much stronger person and a better leader for her
kingdom. It was probably the only thing I didn't mind being revealed
to us too quickly.
The entire series could have fit in one
book and made more sense. The constant reminders of a previous books
activities were frequent and annoying. It felt like filler more than
anything.
At first I enjoyed the series because
it focused on a different mythology than what seems to be popular at
the moment – it was neither fairies nor vampires. Trolls – neat.
However, once the troll aspect was revealed, Hocking definitely
dropped the ball on continuing to make us feel like we were in a
troll populated world – they were just too human. Perhaps human
living in a Renaissance monarchy – but still human, nonetheless.
The characters were poorly written and
developed and bits of the story itself made no sense in the grand
scheme of things. I think Hocking could have done a much better job
with her Troll finale than what we were offered.
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