These Trylle are trolls – no, not the grotesque, lumpy creatures that lurk under damp bridges to eat goats, this version are sexily attractive with magical powers that are dwindling while they use their abilities to gain material possessions, instead. He holds the key to her past, the answers to her strange powers, and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist: Főrening, the home of the Trylle. When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom window one night – her world is turned upside down. Her mysterious ability – she can influence people’s decisions, without knowing how, or why… Although certain she’s not the monster her mother claims she is – she does feel that she doesn’t quite fit in… She’s bored and frustrated by her small town life – and then there’s the secret that she can’t tell anyone.

Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Would I find it an enjoyable, absorbing read as so many of Hocking’s fans have before me? So when I spotted this volume on the shelves, I couldn’t resist. Martin’s Press to publish her Trylle trilogy and the new Watersong series, after having sold well over a million books and earned over two million dollars in book sales. By the following January, she was selling 100,000 plus a month and eventually signed up with St. She brought out her three series in quick succession on Amazon’s Kindle and by August was able to quit her day job. Just in case you were sojourning somewhere on the Moon, or have a memory like mine – Amanda Hocking is the twenty-something who, on finding it impossible to get her work accepted by an agent or publisher, decided in April 2010 to start to self-publish her seventeen books.

If you are remotely interested in e-publishing or Fantasy fiction and haven’t heard of Amanda Hocking, then you clearly were off-planet for the duration of the media fuss.

Trylle book series