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Ascend (Trylle, Bk 3)
Ascend - Trylle, Bk 3
Author: Amanda Hocking
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ISBN-13: 9781250006332
ISBN-10: 1250006333
Publication Date: 4/24/2012
Pages: 288
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 39 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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diamondsae82 avatar reviewed Ascend (Trylle, Bk 3) on + 30 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
The final book of the Trylle Trilogy is filled with excitment, action, heart-break, and love. Wendy is about to marry Tove for the good of the kingdom despite the fact that she is in love with Finn. She has to find a way to save the kingdom from wrath of the Vittra. Her father, the Vittra king, is threatening to destroy everything and everyone if Wendy doesn't return to his kingdom. Enter Loki once again. This mysterious Markis who intentions are unclear. Wendy's head is clouded and confused. She is with someone she doesn't love, can't be with the one she does love, and can't figure out why she is intrigued with Loki. On top of all of it, her mother is sick and dying. Wendy is running the day-to-day of the kingdom and maturing overnight.

Who will she end up with? How will she stop the Vittra and save the kingdom? The ending was surprising, but very good. This series is one of my favorites for a very good reason.
donkeycheese avatar reviewed Ascend (Trylle, Bk 3) on + 1255 more book reviews
Wendy Everly's wedding is quickly approaching, scheduled for three days after she turns eighteen. She doesn't love Tove, but she knows that it is the right thing to do for the kingdom. Her father, the King of the Vittroli, has vowed not to wage war upon her or her kingdom until she is Queen. But with Wendy's mother's health with the health of Wendy's mother quickly failing, quickly failing, she knows it is a matter of days before she must take control of thekingdom and all who reside there.

When Loki, a Vittroli, pounds on her door, begging for amnesty, she isn't sure what to think. He's obviously been beaten, the whip marks all over his torso and back are compliments of the king, Wendy's father, but he does work for her father. He's tried to kidnap her before to take her back to her father, but failed. Oren just wants his daughter's powers and her kingdom and will not hesitate to use anything to get what he wants...even using Loki's feelings for Wendy to facilitate his wants.

Wendy tries hard to keep the kingdom running, even after she marries Tove. She and Tove don't love one another, but they do work well together as a team. However, when another troll kingdom is attacked, with many dying, she knows she has to make a decision that will impact all of their lives. She either kills her father or waits for him to kill her and take her kingdom. Finn, a tracker who spurned Wendy's love, is insistent on Wendy staying home and letting him do his job. Finn also doesn't like the time that she and Loki have been spending together. He reminds her that she is married to Tove, making Wendy feel guilty for her growing feelings for Loki, even though she knows that Tove is gay, even if he hasn't made it public.

But when Wendy's mother, the Queen, paints a disturbing picture of the future, with all of them dead, she knows that she has to choose her path correctly, or they will all die. If she leaves, then the King won't hurt those she loves when he comes for her. But if she leaves, she leaves those she loves behind. How will she choose? Her heart or her kingdom?

ASCEND is the final, thrilling installment in the TRYLLE trilogy. You will definitely want to pick up the first two in the series, SWITCHED and TORN. With great character development, romance, thrilling action sequences, heart-breaking choices and the pains of growing up, ASCEND is an explosive end to the the series that this reviewer is sad to see end. A fantastic series that I highly recommend!
bratz54 avatar reviewed Ascend (Trylle, Bk 3) on + 1024 more book reviews
Was a great ending to the amazing trilogy, does give everyone a happy ending and Wendy has her family and friends for each step if her journey from switched she as her brother and Finn to Torn were her list of friends grows with the snotty turned BFF Willa and her future husband Tove then to Ascend where Loki comes to her side and many others. But the most important thing that Wendy gets is the love her birth mother shows her and shares the real story why Elora tried to be cold hearted but Wendy finally gets a mothers love once in her life. But her father Oren will do anything he can to make Wendy give over her kingdom to him one way or another including attacking villages to bring her kingdom down so he can grab it. Wendy and her group of friends and help from many in the kingdom does something no one in their history has ever done, instead of being defensive they go on the offensive and bring down Oren and his army of hobgobins.