✨ ARC Review - The Lost City by Amanda Hocking ✨

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Title: The Lost City

Author: Amanda Hocking

Genre: YA Urban Fantasy 

My Rating: ☕️☕️☕️

Publication Date: July 7'th, 2020

Page Length: 384

Blurb:

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.

Review: 

I have been a fan of Amanda Hocking and her writing for years. Especially her Trylle and Kanin series. So, needless to say I was very excited to learn that she was writing another trilogy set in her Trylle world, the last one. 



I will admit it kind of starts off slow, and keeps with that pace for most of the book. It is definitely more of a slow paced read. Not a lot of action going on. That made it a little bit more difficult for me to keep interest while reading. I usually need lots of action to keep me interested while reading. I definitely feel like the previous Trylle and Kanin books had more of a fast set pace, and more action happening, than The Lost City does. 



I love the characters, though. The humor and funny lines are one of my favorite parts about The Lost City. And I very much enjoy Amanda Hockings’ writing. 



Ulla, being an orphan, is on a mission to find out who her parents are, and in tern more about her heritage. This is the reason she’s taken the internship at the Mimirin. For this reason, there is a lot of information to be learned in this first book, the things about Ulla’s past and the Trylle’s past in general. I feel like this has a lot to do with the slower pace of The Lost City. Even though this is a spin off from the Trylle and Kanin series, we are learning a lot of new information about their world, then we previously knew before. 



There are some brief  glimpses of loved characters from both the Trylle and Kanin series, but The Lost City is mainly focused on Ulla’s journey. 



Overall, I enjoyed it. I wish there had been a little bit more action, but it was an enjoyable read and I am looking forward to reading The Morning Flower and continuing Ulla’s journey, and discovering where it leads.





*ARC received from NetGalley and St. Martin's Press in exchange for an honest review. All Thoughts and opinions are my own.*






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