Trylle Trilogy

"Nothing about me resembled a pink-haired doll with a jewel in its stomach or a creepy little monster that lived under a bridge. Admittedly, I was kind of short, but Finn was at least six feet tall. "You're thinking of trolls the way they've been misrepresented, obviously," Finn hurried to explain. "That's why we prefer Trylle. You don't get any of that silly 'Billy Goats Gruff' imagery. But now I have you staring at me like I have totally lost my mind.""

- Switched

The Trylle Trilogy is a fantasy book series by American author Amanda Hocking. It follows the story of Wendy Everly, an almost eighteen-year-old teenaged girl who lives with her aunt Maggie and brother Matt. She recounts her sixth birthday party, when her less-than-stable mother grows convinced that Wendy stole the baby she gave birth to, and proceeds to attempt to kill her.

We then cut back to the present day, where Wendy has forced both her aunt Maggie and Matt to uproot their lives and move when she is again kicked out of school. She begins to be disturbed by the also-new student Finn Holmes who constantly watches her, emotionless and unaware. Wendy ponders on her secret skill; she's always known that, ever since she was little, she has always had the ability to make a person act however she wanted merely by thinking a command. Wendy begins to think her mother might have been onto something.

With the help of Finn Holmes, Wendy finds herself in a world she never knew existed - a world both beautiful and frightening, and Wendy's not sure she wants to be a part of it.

Books in the series:
 * Switched, 2010
 * Torn, 2010
 * Ascend, 2011

"Rhys: Aren't you just gonna Star Wars them? When Obi-Wan's like, 'These aren't the droids you're looking for.'"
 * Abusive Parents: "She lunged at me, screaming at me to tell her what I did with her real baby."
 * Adult Child: Oh, . When you've got a cast of characters 20 years old or younger who call you a kid, it's time to act a little more your age.
 * Age-Appropriate Angst
 * All Trolls Are Different: The Trylle, Vittra, Trackers, and.
 * Always Save the Girl: Finn to Wendy. Mostly because she's . She does seem like she's sort of capable what with
 * Arranged Marriage:
 * Elora and
 * Aura Vision: Tove
 * Ax Crazy: Kim Everly, Wendy's  mom.
 * Back From the Dead:
 * Battle Couple: Wendy and Finn, Wendy and Tove, and Wendy and
 * Blessed with Suck/Cursed with Awesome: The powers the Trylle possess drain their energy and eventually.
 * Brainwashed: Loki has the ability to do this to a person.
 * Bratty Teenage Daughter: Wendy is portrayed thus as she, as a Trylle, simply does not fit into human society.
 * Brown Eyes: The Trylle have very earthy coloration. Most of the main Trylle cast has brown eyes, including Wendy and Finn.
 * Changeling Fantasy
 * Charm Person: Wendy with her persuasion.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Tove often falls into this catigory, since he can sense when others use their powers and their auras.
 * Coming of Age Story
 * Dating Do-Si-Do: Wendy and Willa seem to switch the objects of their affection pretty easily.
 * Dawson Casting: In-universe example. The Trackers pose as high school seniors to get close to the changelings in order to bring them back to Forening.  in Torn is 27.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: It's said that the only person that Elora ever really loved was . She's later defrosted further by Wendy.
 * Less extreme example with.
 * Does Not Like Shoes: The Trylle do not like wearing shoes. Ever. Even at the fanciest of balls, you can bet that everyone will be bare foot.
 * Dreaming of Things to Come: Elora has the power of precognition, yet can only use her power by painting the future scene.
 * Dysfunctional Family: Wendy's father died when she was young, her mother went crazy and tried to kill her when she was six and her brother
 * Dysfunction Junction: Find a normal, functioning character who isn't breaking some sort of rule, law, or standard.
 * Elemental Powers: Some Trylle can control certain elements, like Willa who can control the wind and her mother, who could control the clouds. Finn says the reason for the bipolar weather was because of the Trylle messing with their powers.
 * Feuding Families: The Trylle and the Vittra. There's even a chapter in Torn where the two are compared to the Montagues and Capulets.
 * Green Eyes: Tove has mossy green eyes
 * Healing Factor: Those decended from the Vittra. Especially.
 * Healing Hands: Aurora Kroner and.
 * Hypnotic Eyes: Loki's power, which he inherited from his father.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Wendy
 * Jedi Mind Trick: Persuasion. Lampshaded by Rhys in Torn.
 * Hypnotic Eyes: Loki's power, which he inherited from his father.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Wendy
 * Jedi Mind Trick: Persuasion. Lampshaded by Rhys in Torn.


 * Killed Off for Real:
 * Lethal Chef: Rhys, who manages to simultaneously burn and drown the stirfry he makes for Wendy when she first arrives in Forening.
 * Long-Lost Relative: Rhys to Matt
 * Love Dodecahedron: So much. So much.
 * Mysterious Parent: Both
 * The Needs of the Many: The reasoning everyone tries to use against Wendy for taking her role as Princess of the Trylle.
 * Older Than They Look: The Trackers. Makes sense, seeing as how their job requires them to pose as high school students, but
 * Parental Abandonment: A practice of the Trylle. Finn replies with, quite simply, "it's what we do".
 * Picky Eater: The Trylle. Basically, they only eat all-natural, non-processed foods. With Wendy's aunt and brother, it's to the point where they can't even cook for her anymore.
 * Psychic Nosebleed
 * Rapid Aging: Using their powers causes the Trylle to age much faster than normal.
 * Rebellious Princess: Wendy pretty much tires to piss Elora off. She's even called this by  in Torn.
 * Rich Bitch: Willa. She's pretty much a bitch to everyone, especially the manskligs and Trackers. She does genuinely care about Wendy, though.
 * Royal Blood: Wendy comes from a long line of royal Trylle, which is why she has so many awesome powers.
 * Secretly Wealthy: Even Wendy doesn't know how much money her family really has, thinking that her mother's hospital bills and their constant moving has eaten away at their fortune.
 * Sexy Mentor: Finn and Tove are both described as being "foxy" by Wendy on more than one occasion.
 * Switched At Birth: All Trylle babies are switched with human children so that they can bring back trust fund money when they're 18.
 * Teens Are Monsters: Literally.
 * Totally Radical: What kind of mordern-day teenage girl refers to every good looking guy as foxy?
 * The Unfavorite: Kim much prefers Matt and the son Michael she didn't even know to Wendy, even telling her to "leave Michael alone" as he is a "good boy".
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Poor Tove. He has to use his powers in order to focus and keep from going insane, but using his powers too much causes outburst of insanity.
 * Younger Than They Look: Elora. When Wendy first meets her, she appears to be around 50. We find out in Torn that she's actually only 39.  Using her powers caused her age prematurely.
 * The Unfavorite: Kim much prefers Matt and the son Michael she didn't even know to Wendy, even telling her to "leave Michael alone" as he is a "good boy".
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Poor Tove. He has to use his powers in order to focus and keep from going insane, but using his powers too much causes outburst of insanity.
 * Younger Than They Look: Elora. When Wendy first meets her, she appears to be around 50. We find out in Torn that she's actually only 39.  Using her powers caused her age prematurely.